August 30, 2009

People without reflections

MC1 is heading somewhere when she runs into MC2, literally. MC2 looks at MC1 and then freaks out about bumping into her but runs away before she can catch him. A few minutes later, MC1 is walking across a crosswalk and a car speeds right in front of her.

Later that day, MC1 is for some reason in front of a mirror and she has no reflection. Naturally she panics. A few days later she has become a major paranoid person, avoiding mirror at all cost. Then she meets MC2 and realizes somehow that he doesn't have a reflection either. She confronts him about it and he explains that on the other side of the mirror is an alternate universe that does the exact same thing as ours all the time. For some reason though, one person once did something different and their counterpart across the mirror died. After that, they had no reflection. When they interacted and stopped a person from dying when they were supposed to, that person ended up like them. It continued a lot, and everything was figured out so they would continue to save people's lives and they would join the ranks of the reflectionless people. Eventually, there was a fight about whether they should keep turning more people like them or not, and the group split into two. Now the one group continued to try to turn people into their situation and the other tries to prevent that.

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August 25, 2009

The two year marriage

Have you heard about the proposal about two year marriages? Mexico City has put it forward and other cities around the world have been taking notice so here's my concept: it's a world where the concept of marriage is much changed and the rate of "divorce" is almost nonexistent (at least in name only). People get married on contracts (a year and a day at first because that's very old world) with the option of renewing it every year afterwards with no real penalty or stigma of not renewing it.

The story in my head would take place around two couples during their first year of marriage: one couple would have entered marriage thinking that it's a joke and end up really falling in love, renewing their commitment every year, while the other who were very much in love at the beginning realize that they're not suited to each other after all.

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August 20, 2009

The worthy

One day an Event occurs (original idea was that a Mythological Creature went on a rampage) and all the 'bad' people in the world are dead, or just plain disappeared. Only the children below a certain age, and those deemed 'worthy' are left alive on the planet. How long will it last though? Will corruption and bigotry come back quickly in a world re building? What is the definition of 'worthy' in your story anyway?

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August 15, 2009

The kidnapping ring

A kidnapping ring makes one ransom demand that contains all the information needed to pay the ransom. The demand has always been delivered in a manner that is pretty much untraceable, including such low-tech methods like taping a note to the door. The demand always says that there will be no negotiations. If it's paid, the victim will be released, if no payment is made by the deadline, they will never see their loved one again. And so far it's always been that way. Whenever a ransom was paid, the victim always woke up alone, unhurt and having nothing of value to tell the police about the kidnappers. When the ransom wasn't paid, that was it. No further contact, nothing. Not even a dead body being found months later. The kidnapped person just disappeared. It's the perfect crime.

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August 10, 2009

wolf turned into human by curse

The MC was born a wolf with their pack, however, when MC was young, they were turned human by a curse; retained some wolf like features, but not enough to think that they were originally a wolf. They fall in love with the human world over time, and don't think of themselves as being a wolf. However, when puberty hits, the curse starts to weaken, and they revert when (insert emotion here) shows up in them. MC realizes that they were born a wolf, and has werewolf features as well, but the wolves hate humans and just want to kill as many of them as possible. As the curse continues to weaken, MC has to fight between their heritage as a wolf and their love for the human race in general.

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August 5, 2009

reincarnation gone wrong?

(Note that the genders here are all extremely fluid; you could have a heterosexual or homosexual couple, or the roles could be reversed.)

A young woman remembers her past life, especially the man she loved. After saving up (or receiving) enough money, she plans to travel around the world in order to find the reincarnation of her lover. She finds a man that claims to be him, and they quickly fall in love and get married. However, the more time she spends around her new husband, the more she notices that he's not exactly as she remembers. She passes this off to both having led very different lives this time around. As time passes, though, the feeling that something isn't quite right about the whole situation grows larger and larger. Eventually, when she asks him, her husband admits to not being the man he claimed to be. What happens?

-I always liked (being a fantasy writer) the idea that the soul of her former lover split somehow upon reincarnation, and even though her husband may not entirely be the reincarnation of her former lover, he still has a piece of the split soul, and that's why they were attracted to each other and managed to marry before she noticed anything was wrong. From there, there's tons of possibilities. Do they get the rest of the soul back? What if all the pieces are in a bunch of different guys? What if she has pieces of her husband's soul inside her?

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