RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist#WordWeavers 2026.04.06 —Can you create a character/place/storyhook/device on the spot, if you need to? If so, share an example.
Yes?
Gratis: If you write it, I'd like to read it.
Over many months, people began to realize the girl wasn't the person she had been before the coma. She wasn't. For her, it was always the sense of being in a different body, wearing a shell, sometimes with bouts of emotional claustrophobia. While she had previous memories of the middle school girl she now was, she had previous memories all through university that overlapped: research, internships, mentorships, graduations, men. She felt vaguely swindled that she hadn't turned in her finished Ph.d. thesis the day before… before—before whatever happened. The girl's friends liked the new brainy her, who deftly handled all the juvenile jocks and bullies, but the girl's older sister was convinced she'd developed multiple personalities. Sis hadn't dropped down to possessed, yet, but that goth look and crystals presaged bad things. Her supposed technological flashes, in 1952 from 2025, were rapidly getting her noticed. The science faire had been a bad idea. Some of her math hadn't existed until she pasted the calc sheets to the poster. That she'd done it with a slide rule was what amazed her. People used the word "prodigy" for the girl. Now, with talks of scholarships in a male dominated engineering field that didn't want her, she wasn't sure she was up to changing history—or if the voice growing in her ear was the girl before the coma.
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