SciFi/Fantasy – October 30

“Ladies and gentlemen, we interrupt our program of dance music to bring you a special bulletin from the Intercontinental Radio News. At twenty minutes before eight, central time, Professor Farrell of the Mount Jennings Observatory, Chicago, Illinois, reports observing several explosions of incandescent gas, occurring at regular intervals on the planet Mars.”

On this date in Orson Welles’ 1938, a Martian spaceship landed at Grover’s Mill, New Jersey, and began incinerating locals.

Writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist manufactures an event to prompt mass hysteria that will disguise her/his actual scheme.

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