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I’m not sure what happened to the prompt that was supposed to post for today, but it seems to have been lost.  Think it was brownouts we were having, but not sure.

I suppose that makes a good make up prompt, huh?  Brownouts?  I can easily see a group of spacefarers trying to track down what is causing the power to brownout all over their ship.  Nice little side plot there for a novel.  How about plugging into the power grid at the space port and having something malfunctioning and causing brownouts and the mechanic has to stay behind even though he really wanted to go explore the local bar?

Brownouts can add a nice little bit of suspense to any modern type story, particularly crime or horror types.  Here the damsel is in distress and she’s walking around her scary building knowing there is a vampire in the city looking for damsels in distress and the power keeps browning out.

For anyone that does not know. A brownout means the lights dim really low as if they are going out but don’t actually go out, then they go back up to full.  It is usually caused from my experience by snow falling on power lines, high winds making trees hit the lines and short circuits in the wiring – among many other causes.