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frustratedpilotHey. Have you any idea how hard it is to find decent floor plans of Graceland over the Internet? I had to go all the way to a site in Holland for some...
You see, the MJ saga has brought back memories from the summer of 1977 when Elvis Presley died. For a while, I'd had an idea for a story, with the working title Equation, partly based on the time-travel stories of Heinlein, and somewhat akin to The Butterfly Effect, but told from the side of the character whose life is the one initially being meddled with, rather than the meddler. Well, the character in question is an 11-year-old boy in 1977, and his first adventure makes him something of a celebrity. In a following segment, he gets invited to a party at Graceland by Lisa Marie...and one of the other guests there is a teenage friend of hers name of Michael Jackson. Well, the hero knows their destinies, but there's the ethical dilemma of whether to speak or stay silent. Whether to tell the truth, however offensive or dangerous it may be, or enable their fantasies.
I know I'm not the only one to think these things...but what if hindsight ISN'T 20/20 vision?
You see, the MJ saga has brought back memories from the summer of 1977 when Elvis Presley died. For a while, I'd had an idea for a story, with the working title Equation, partly based on the time-travel stories of Heinlein, and somewhat akin to The Butterfly Effect, but told from the side of the character whose life is the one initially being meddled with, rather than the meddler. Well, the character in question is an 11-year-old boy in 1977, and his first adventure makes him something of a celebrity. In a following segment, he gets invited to a party at Graceland by Lisa Marie...and one of the other guests there is a teenage friend of hers name of Michael Jackson. Well, the hero knows their destinies, but there's the ethical dilemma of whether to speak or stay silent. Whether to tell the truth, however offensive or dangerous it may be, or enable their fantasies.
I know I'm not the only one to think these things...but what if hindsight ISN'T 20/20 vision?
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