Athena woke me up at 3AM

now, before y’all start cheering, that  “DIO GOT A GF!!!!” the title is NOT what ya think.   Athena in this case is imaginary, but, the centerpiece of a short that I have been working on since literally three Aye-Emmm,,,,   

My muse slapped me out of sleep with a story that was complete from start to finish and screamed in my mind “WRITE THIS YOU WORTHLESS TRIPE OF AN AUTHOR!!!!,  WRITE IT OR I WILL HAUNT YOU AND TORMENT YOU RELENTLESSLY,,,,,,,“

Maybe some of y’all recall that I had taken slight issue with Mark Manson’s view on AI,,,   If you haven’t read the book,,,, well, beside the point,,,, He was rather upbeat about “AI overlords” sort of shit (I exaggerate, but only slightly) whereas I, I kinda like Humanity, even if we are the most fucked up, insane, sadomasochistic, narcissistic, bunch of hairless monkeys that climbed down from the trees.   We may not be perfect, but we have our moments that shine damned brightly, and while we have the means to self-annihilate, we haven’t,,,   yet, but I seriously doubt we will (and he says that and mushroom clouds bloom over every major metropolis,,,  that’d be my just luck,,,,)

So, I’ll give you a teaser. First up, this is gonna be a freebie, posted here on the site and then listed in links above for perpetuity,,,    BUTtttsssss,,,,,, Athena is a guy’s Personal Assistant, AI, and they are on vaca from the world at large, to include NO INTERNET,,,.   She becomes the center of an adventure crisis and tons of anxiety.   and THAT is all I am gonna clue you with,,,,    So, when I say that Athena woke me up at 3, maybe I should say my Muse woke me up with Athena in tow, tossed Athena in my lap and said “WRITE HER STORY!” and stomped off.

Its been a rather strange day,,,, to include needing to go to the J.O.B. while froggy from lack of sleep, too TOO much coffee, and this damnable fun-loving AI bot bouncing around inside my head, poking at things, asking inappropriate questions, and being a damned nuisance.   Just glad there is ‘room for one more’ up there,,, at least for now,,,   but this one is ACTIVE,,,, jeez, like a case of fleas active,,,,   SOOO,,,, 

I need to get back to the other screen and try to vindicate Muse and get this scritchy-scratchy bot out of my head before she goes opening those hallways of the mind I have closed off for damned good reasons,,,,,