[HCC/META] High Concept Challenge 43: 'The eruption of the fantastic into the mundane'

[Saxon Brenton]

After a bit of thought, let High Concept Challenge 43 be: 
'The eruption of the fantastic into the mundane'
  
This is one of the basic variations of our fantastic fictions: someone 
going about their everyday business when weird sh!t turns their world 
upsidedown, and how that person reacts.  It can be a superhero story 
where some ordinary schlub gets bitten by a radioactive origin, or a 
fantasy story where a hobbit gets dragged off to take part in a raid 
on a dragon's treasure horde, or a science fiction story where a newly 
orphaned moisture farmer goes off to blow up a spacestation.  Or for 
a non-empowering variation, a horror story Lovecraftian critters drive 
people mad with their mere presence.
 
Of course, 'mundane' is relative.  The unexpected clash of magic using 
elves with high tech orcs?  A world where everybody has superpowers and 
suddenly they stop working?  What do gods worship, and how do gods react 
when what they worship start making unreasonable demands?
  
So, post your stories of people coping with the outre by he end of the 
month: 31st March 2014.
 
 
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Saxon Brenton   University of Technology, city library, Sydney Australia 
     saxon.brenton at uts.edu.au     saxonbrenton at hotmail.com 
"These 'no-nonsense' solutions of yours just don't hold water in a complex 
world of jet-powered apes and time-travel." - Superman, JLA Classified #3