Fragments IX

There are quite a few instalments of these idea fragments, eh?

• Maggey as a space cadet (I have no idea why I had this idea or why it refuses to go anywhere)
• "Wulver: a werewolf in Shetland that is said to have had the body of a man with a wolf’s head. It was reported to have left fish on the windowsills of poor families."
• Some humanisation of the concept of shielding functional groups in chemistry (the group is turned into something else so it won't be affected in a reaction; then it's turned back)
• "They were to be as if cast into the vast expanse of starry space, depending on God alone—in touch with the source of miracles." (from Streams in the Desert)
• "This man lives in a world where everybody is in an infomercial. They all screw up simple daily tasks, but not him. Because of his incapability to be incapable, this man is bullied, ridiculed, and shunned by everyone around him. Yearning to fit in, he desperately tries to be clumsy but fails to cause a huge mess. Until one day when he was confronted by a mugger. The mugger tried to stab him but continuously missed until they stabbed themself. He found his true calling and became a hero, stopping criminals everywhere by using their own clumsiness against them." (seen on Tumblr)
• Distinct shadows stretching across a set of stairs otherwise lit at the top of each stair (this could probably go anywhere; I just saw it and thought it a nice image)
• Referring to tea as "England water" (as someone seems to have mistakenly done)
• A school of fairies suddenly cut off from the outside world
• A mother protagonist
• Characters raised or otherwise in poverty