“Have you never wanted to do anything that was dangerous? Where should we be if no one tried to find out what lies beyond? Have you never wanted to look beyond the clouds and the stars, or to know what causes the trees to bud? And what changes the darkness into light?”
– Dr. Henry Frankenstein in the first film version of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley‘s novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, which premiered on this date in 1931.
Writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist’s life is threatened with destruction by something s/he created.
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