I had a few more new ideas to keep last night…
The first is about a main character(m or f) who witnesses the improbable, the inexplicable and the one-of-a-kind on a regular basis. The police all know this individual fairly well, because in practically every weird circumstance, whenever something particularly strange takes place, our protagonist is somehow there, witnessing, and later reporting it to the police, who, frankly, are getting a little tired of it all.
*THINK ‘The Little Boy Who Cried Wolf’* > this will be the opposite, as far as the plot line goes.
>Events that are witnessed are baffling to Police
>Piques the interest of the local Paranormal Specialists
>Ultimately, once the witness has proven, time and again, their reliability, the witness comes forward, having witnessed the impossible: A doorway to another dimension, and the…things coming through…
Great Quote from the Horton Foote play ‘1918’: “…climbing fool’s hill.”
Crazy radical: A Small Southern town in which SPORT-SCOUTING is the primary industry. And by carrying that thread over to Agony…
>We know that Milo Tuck and Kick Onyx, in all likelihood, would jump at the chance to start selling off the worthless plots and houses in their failed Planned Community, just outside of town: Agony Acres. It had been Milo’s idea first off: he knew some boys he went to college with down in Houston. Those guys were building big, planned communities all over the state and raking in a fortune! But no one except Milo thinks a fool would buy a quarter-million dollar home situated more than a hundred miles from anywhere…
>Unless he was a scout, and there was an unusually good pool of talent streaming out of some remote little town…Like Agony, Texas.
>No sooner does the state of Texas end school segregation, when the Agony baseball team emerges as a dominant powerhouse, full of prospective talent, and college and pro scouts pour in to seek and sign a phenom.
What if society forced a new law into being: The Bully Law is enacted to put a stop to either cyber, or school-type bullying. When big bad Bobby tries to take little Timmy’s lunch money, he is snatched up by a teacher and hauled down to the school offices, arrested, charged and held while charges are applied to his parents as well. Finally, big bad Bobby has to start taking an experimental drug, designed to chemically alter his brain-wave function. The drug is called, ‘Happy Time Pills’, and they even had a little smiley face on the front side of the tablet. After the use of said drug, school violence drops to virtually nothing. But, there is always something else that will take the place of the bully. And, this something else makes a bully seem like no big deal…This one is most likely a dark short story.
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