messages hidden in the wind

It was a very windy day, the envelope was shaking violently in her hands. The
wind was messing with her red hair, which looked like fire in contrast with the
grey clouds. Beneath the bridge where she was standing, there was a very deep cliff that divided the city in two, and all the way down was a river that lead to the ocean, just a few miles ahead.

The envelope was finally let go and it flew through the air. This was the fifth time that she had felt the need to fold a blank piece of paper and put it into an envelope. She carried it with her until she felt it was pointless and abandoned it anywhere. A few days later she found out that the "letters" did have a destination, and than when they arrived they all had messages in them with what it seemed her handwriting.

They were messages hidden in the wind, too weak to be heard but too important
to get lost.

She doesn't know how that happens or why it happens. It is her handwriting but she is 100% sure she never wrote anything herself, and later she starts to hear voices in the wind, whispers.

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The lost dragons

Within Mt. Kailash is the Valley of Wind and the home of the last dragons. Periodically, they will send a “scout” out into humanity to see if the time is right to reenter the world. Sometimes the scout doesn’t return and their heartfire is extinguished within the Temple of Wind - that’s how the remaining dragons know that scout has passed beyond the veil. Other times, the heartfire still burns but the scout still is lost. There are about 450 dragons left and while they are very long-lived, their numbers are waning. The last dragons born are now in their early twenties and there are no young on the horizon (figure out why). MC wants to find out what happened to the Lost, those who never returned yet whose heartfires still burn. But the Council Elders feel that’s too big a risk, especially for one of the youngest dragons. So MC has to sneak away.

S/he finds some of the Lost but they have been diminished somehow and trapped in their human forms and no memory of being a dragon except for strange dreams they all have in common. Turns out, an evil sorcerer devised a way to capture their essence to use as his own power and extend his own life. It takes a long time to drain a dragon completely so that’s why their heartfires still burn.

With the help of some new friends s/he makes along the way, MC is able to defeat the sorcerer and free the Lost, allowing them to return to dragon form and regain their memories.

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one twin dies, the other has increased abilities

After one of a pair of twins dies from SIDS, their mother retreats into herself. The father raises the remaining child without her aid [or vice versa], and when the child turns seven, it's discovered that [s]he has twice the capabilities as any other seven year old. Twice as fast, twice as strong, twice as smart, twice as...etc. When the father[mother] discovers a secret journal in the mother's[father's] bookshelf and learns that the mother[father] sacrificed the one child to make the other better, what kind of consequences will unfold?

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Freaky Thursdays

A girl has her life plagued by mysterious events, which, for some reason, only happen on Thursdays.

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Pawn (the chess and card fanatic MC)

MMC is a guy who is an absolute chess and card fanatic. He can beat anyone at chess with only a few simple moves and he can do all kinds of different tricks and illusions with his many limited edition card decks. However, one day he begins to notice something odd happening with his chess sets and card decks. It appears that almost every time he wins at chess, all the pieces are in the exact same spots and even one time, when he drops them on the ground by accident, they all land on the board in those positions. Every time, it is the king, queen, bishop, and a single pawn set off on their own in the middle. The rest are either captured or (in the case where he dropped the chess set) fallen on their sides around them.

And his cards -- the royals in his decks, especially one in particular, seem to be taking very life-like faces. The jacks in every deck rather resemble himself. And the jokers in each deck stare back at him with mysterious, chilling faces, and even once, he could have sworn that the eyes had moved and stared at him in a sinister, mocking way. What is happening to his chess pieces and cards? MC Googles these things for lack of any other form of action to take and discovers that there is a very ancient prophecy in which four major figures play a role. A King, a Queen, a Bishop, a Pawn. A King, a Queen, a Joker, a Jack. A President, a First Lady, a shifty Ambassador, a young school boy who only ever wanted to just play chess and cards.

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trapped in dreamland

A boy starts having weird dreams about a girl in a fantasy land. One day, his mom turns on the news and he sees that this girl is missing. His dreams get weirder and weirder until he is transported to the dream land, too, and he finally meets the girl. They have to find a way out of the dream world before his dreams take over and he never wakes up.

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strange new blood-type (dragon plot)

The year is 1992, when in the small country, (insert country), children are born with an unknown blood-type. They call it 8 or infinitas. Every child has been given an unique code and their blood is taken for further research. Eighteen years later, those same children all disappear without a trace, and the world is being terrorized by dragons. When one of the dragons is killed, scientists study it and find the same blood-type, infinitas. Not only that, but the blood sample matches one of the missing children's sample. In further research they come to the conclusion that the blood and DNA is 100% the same.

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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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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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