{"id":22683,"date":"2020-05-08T14:34:06","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T18:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/?p=22683"},"modified":"2020-05-08T14:38:04","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T18:38:04","slug":"microfiction-practice-8-design-flaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/microfiction-practice-8-design-flaw\/","title":{"rendered":"Microfiction Practice #8: Design Flaw"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"smalltext highlight\"><em>[Don&#8217;t know what this is? See <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/working-in-the-small\/\" target=\"_blank\">this post<\/a> for some background.]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Prompt #979:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Genre: science fiction<\/li><li>Word: <em>ferry<\/em><\/li><li>Action: killing a spouse<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Story <\/strong><em>(99 words, per Microsoft Word)<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>You could don the O&#8217;Tempora Timeshirt; then you could visit whenever you wanted. But once in a time, you couldn&#8217;t exit &#8212; not without help from someone at the admin console. Hence historian Rafe&#8217;s tragedy: after he&#8217;d left for his fourteenth attempt to witness John Brown&#8217;s raid on Harper&#8217;s Ferry, his wife unplugged the admin console and headed over to eBay. &#8220;No Timeshirt available,&#8221; said her ad. &#8220;Works fine otherwise.&#8221; Rafe himself was wounded during the raid; the Timeshirt, discarded by a Union doctor, surfaced in a 21st-century archaeological dig, thus changing history&#8217;s course &#8212; certainly for O&#8217;Tempora, LLC.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Don&#8217;t know what this is? See this post for some background.] Prompt #979: Genre: science fiction Word: ferry Action: killing a spouse Story (99 words, per Microsoft Word): You could don the O&#8217;Tempora Timeshirt; then you could visit whenever you wanted. 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