999 Minutes

999 Minutes

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What would you do in nine hundred and ninety-nine minutes? What if you didn't even know the end was coming? Eighteen year old Aurelia, servant to Augustus Maximonius and his wife and two children, meets freedman Gaius Seutonius whilst out with her mistress. She has no rights and he not many, but it is his kindness that turns Aurelia's head. Follow the young pair as they break laws, fall in love and keep secrets to protect themselves as the countdown to the end begins. So what would you do?
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Retired law enforcement agent awakens in Ancient Rome during the reign of Marcus Aurelius and embarks on a quest to stop the Empire from collapse, and finds love and fulfillment. This was first written as a quasi-treatment for potential cinematic production. So, yes, there is little conflict, as in most such historical "what-if" works (Clemens's "Connecticut Yankee..."). But there are at least two such readily available: 1. The Senate might/would resist the suggested changes, especially the most powerful/richest. 2. Commodus might/would resist being sent away to primitive America as ambassador ( addressed in the sequel in my posted works here.) Maybe Dwayne Johnson could be enticed. LOL At least it would NOT be based on some comic book! And the five causes for the Empire's collapse are legitimate historically. (ref. eg. Gibbon) Might learn something about our current predicament...or would we?

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