With Round 2, we're gonna dive back to the prompt of the very first round of SmackDown: The Second Coming. How'd that one go?
Sub-Genre: Alternate History
There's a glitch in the timestream. At various moments throughout our history, alternate timelines are emerging, taking humanity into wildly different courses of development.
Using your assigned historical person(s), write an alternate history story and tweak the past. Wikipedia can provide some great inspiration here.
Word Count: 1500 to 3000 words
Deadline: Friday June 14th, 3:30 PM PST/6:30 PM EST/10:30 PM UTC—(Saturday June 15th, 10:30 AM NZT)
As usual, submit your stories to mikemarsbergen@hotmail.com in .doc or .docx form, or as a Google Doc, or by copy-pasting into the body of the email.
1. painebook - William Shakespeare
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2. CJG1988 - Abraham Lincoln
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3. Wuckster - Cleopatra
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4. Sephuran - The Beatles
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