Let's toss ideas around (short story premises)

[Nail]

I have series of short stories called 65 Meters

65 Meters | Tapas

Usually I base my stories on short initial premise, and then I build the story around it. Sometimes it's something as simple as "asphalt cracks" or "chewing gum and a weird gum". So let's toss around ideas for stories.
If you want me specifically to write a story based on your idea, write it down in the reply, mentioning me. It can be something weird or unusual, as I prefere, or in opposite: it can be something plane and mondane, and then it'll be my job to twist it around. I not guarantee that I'll use all of your suggestions, but if I will, I'll post the link to the story here.
But everyone else can participate, whether you're looking for an idea or having one. Here's the rules:
- Write your story premise short - one word, a phrase or a couple of sentences.
- Write preferable jenre you want your premise to be incarnated in.
- If someone wrote a sory, basen on someones idea - add links to the story and to author's of idea profile page (or just mention him); also write down the premise that was suggested.

[ar-ninetysix]

@Nail How about writing something about three words with no relation to each other?

Dandelions, cannibalism, annnnnnd homecoming.
As for genres, I'll let you have fun with it and do what you want?

[Nail]

@ ar-ninetysix Thanks! I'll wrap my mind aroun that, but could you change "homecoming" for something different I'm not from US, so I'm not quiet sure I understand this tradition well.

[spicy_sweets]

Party works, I think!

[ar-ninetysix]

Ah, ok, my bad! Like @spicy_sweets suggested, party works as a close word to it! So, change my suggestion to "dandelions, cannibalism, and party!"

[LordLacroix]

Won't know how to help you with that, my stories, every single one of them just popped out of the nowhere in my mind, some i watched develop like i was not the author. But i think when a block attacks the best way to come out of it is to watch, read and play games. You never know what would lurk in the corners of your mind and you don't even know it is there.

[Nail]

Here it is. Suggested by ar-ninetysix, the premise is: "dandelions, cannibalism and party (suggested by spicy_sweets). I wrote it as a horror (sort of).

65 Meters :: Deaddelion Wine | Tapas

[Nail]

Ok, here's one from me. Base your story on the name: "The Master of Wet Arts". It's just something that stuck in my mind for past few hours. Let it be science fiction to avoid posible innuendos.

[Aetoras]

In a kingdom in the sky where social status is determined by the size of one's wings, a young individual finds themselves born completely wingless and at the absolute bottom of society. Refusing to accept her position, she uses her mechanical ingenuity to build a set of artificial wings, incurring the ire of the ruling elites.

[Nail]

Not sure I'm going to write a story on this one but here's a cool plot twist: the kingdom is a an ant colony. The main character doesn't have wings because he's not female...
"Nuptial flight is an important phase in the reproduction of most ant, termite, and some bee species.[1] During the flight, virgin queens mate with males and then land to start a new colony, or, in the case of honey bees, continue the succession of an existing hived colony....
...A mature ant colony seasonally produces winged virgin queens (have wings, able to fly) and males. Unfertilized eggs develop into males. Fertilized eggs usually develop into wingless, sterile workers, but may develop into virgin queens if the larvae receive special attention." (Wikipedia)
... and the whole story is about gender identity.

[Nail]

Enigma's fourth album is called "The Screen Behind the Mirror", and one of songs contains lyrics I' want to suggest as a short story ptemise:
"Here's the mirror, behind there is a screen. In both ways you can get in"
Any genre, you like.

[DiegoPalacios]

A person with multiple personality disorder starts falling in love with someone over the internet. What he doesn`t know is that his love interest is his alter ego.

[Nail]

I think, I would be able to make something interesting out of it...

[Nail]

It's, kind of tragic by the way...

[DiegoPalacios]

Guess it was kinda expected to be that way.

[Jenny-Toons]

Oooor, it could be hopeful~

Say if this guy had some self-esteem issues. That he didn't really love himself. But then, here comes this "person" who truly does like talking to him. And this is someone he likes being around, someone he grows to love.

When he finds out it's himself...maybe it's the step to more self-love. After all...he fell in love with this part of himself...and this part of himself saw the good in him.

[Zaboem]

Dang it, I have got a head full of ideas right now. None of them fit as short stories. Grrr

[Nail]

Yeah, but noone says, that "person" loves you back.
I see your point, nevertheless.

[Nail]

Well... try it. We'll see. what we can do.

[Zaboem]

Here's a nice mindless pulp adventure story scenario.

In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, the monster (who was named Adam) retreats into arctic circle to get away from humanity around 1818. This story picks up where Shelley left off, there near the North Pole.

Adam has been alone on the arctic ice shelves for over a century when someone finally arrives. It's 1941, and a German military expedition is breaking through the ice with gigantic steel battleships. The expedition is lead by a German admiral, but the experts onboard on civilian scholars from the Thule Society. The Nazis are searching for the legendary lost civilization of the mythic Aryans and their power source, vril.

Now this could be an easy pulp beat em up in which Adam uses his superhuman speed and strength and questionable ethics to kill some Nazis and send them packing. On the other hand, an alliance isn't unfeasible. Adam knows where the ruins of the vril city are hidden. The Nazis are entirely convinced that society can be improved by eugenics, the selective breeding of its citizens to produce offspring with the most desirable traits. (Lots of good people in Allied countries believed in this too before the war.) To the eugenicists, Adam is a walking example of this concept using the best parts that Doctor Frakenstein could find from hundreds of graves, a living uberman with merely grotesque appearance. From Adam's point of view, he's gotten very lonely. Thus, Adam has an internal conflict to resolve.