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Random Story Ideas
Wednesday, April 13, 2011 at 9:07AM …some serious, some absurd. Some that I’ve worked on, some that just occurred to me.
Talking Yarn
The kid who can pass a precalc test while in a bizarre swirl of drugs, trouble, guns, unreliable friends. He can pass precalculus, but doesn’t always know what’s in his backpack
A chef who is no good with knives
A telemarketer with superpowers. This is the droid that you want.
A girl from New Mexico who wants to be a British pop star but ends up selling video games to teenagers
A writer, an only child, who has bounced from standup comedy, to acting, to writing, through a cocaine habit and three states, running from who knows what, and never telling his parents the truth about what he is doing. His lies must stay one step ahead of their observation and interest.
A dog with the psychic ability to know when people are going to die but no way to communicate the knowledge to humans.
A middle-grade science teacher addicted to heroin.
A crossing guard who rides his bicycle six miles, four times a day to be at his post
A hot-air balloon pilot who wants to open her own restaurant
A kleptomaniac kangaroo
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Gratuitous boob shot
A grocery cashier who is trying to write a novel, but mostly sits on the couch in her apartment above her parents’ garage and smokes cigarettes. She has Elvisy hair.
School librarian who hates to read and hates kids and smokes cigars/likes porn.
When it comes to finding a body in the trunk of your car, the first time is really the worst. (This idea is stolen shamelessly from @somnicide)
Football moments: the ball boy’s haircut, the mascots and their trash cans, the boys spitting from the top of the bleachers.
The revolutionary grad student who always ate at the 7-11 hyper-processed food, fried burritos.
23-year-old ethics officer for an ambulance chaser.
A compulsive drawer-rummager.
Bootleg tailors and the zoot suit riots (yes, this one reappears frequently)
What do YOU want to write about?
Reader Comments (4)
Some of those looked ripped from the headlines law and order: Eglentyne style ;-)
I think my favorite is: Bootleg tailors and the zoot suit riots (yes, this one reappears frequently)
And the boob shot is kind of creepy, which I guess could be another random story idea (creepy boob shot) though I think it would be some PG version of Lovecraft.
Dun-dun. Patrick lives! xo Headlines, no. Interesting people I've met (and made up wildly hypothetical stories to explain their behavior), yes. And that's a picture of our Texas governor, who may just get unleashed on the nation soon. So sorry.
I have an edit for you:
The TEXAS GOVERNOR who hates to read and hates kids and smokes cigars/likes porn.
Just an idea.
Amy, You forgot the part where he shoots coyotes while jogging. <--Really happened.