Neal's Story Ideas
From Neal's Wiki
Short Story Plot Ideas
- Birthday @ State Line w/Dad
- Purple Umbrella bought for Mom in Soingnees
- Interviewer's visit to once-famous actress in obscure nursing home.
- Conversations at a "vag" farm.
- College experience with donating plasma gone horribly (and comically) wrong.
- Minister on a colonization mission to other planet. Theme: (ir)relevancy of religion in SF world.
- "Genius" accidentally eradicated in society as a side effect of medication to reduce mental illness.
- Comic SF story about a character based on biblical stories of Jacob & Gideon. Perhaps end on darker note with Jonah.
- Something with allegorical communion?
- Classroom of the future
Theory
Ordinary humanity shining through bizarre settings.
Great Opening Lines
- "All she wanted was attention. All he wanted was someone to fold the clothes."
- "Every time I'm in big trouble I try to write my life story"