Who Might You Have Been in Another Time?
Have you ever imagined the kind of person you’d be if you were born in a different era?
Would you have fought in the Battle of Carthage as a Roman soldier in the 2nd century BCE?
Would you have danced through the Roaring Twenties as a daring flapper?
Could you have been a painter in the heart of the Italian Renaissance?
A scholar exploring the mysteries of the universe during the Islamic Golden Age?
An outlaw riding through the untamed Wild West?
Or perhaps a disciplined Samurai in 18th-century Japan?
Now’s your chance to find out.
Write a short story that places you in a different historical period. Be imaginative. Maybe your best friend is with you in Ancient Greece, arguing with philosophers in the agora. Maybe you’re a conflicted Viking questioning the morality of raiding, or a hunter in Mesopotamia describing your daily survival. You can mix humor, emotion, action—whatever you like.
Choose a time in history that fascinates you. Then step into it, make it your world, and tell your story.
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