Let's toss ideas around (short story premises)

[Nail]

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.

It's a horror. It has a bit of profanity and some sexualyy suggestive bitsб let me know I should mark it as "mature".

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[Nail]

questionable ethics

I like the "questionable ethics" part. Also I fond the thing about being needed by someone even despite, the're your enemy instead of being alone quite interesting. Adam definitely doesn't want more creatures like him apearing, knowing what suffering it is. But at the same time... it would be reasonable thing (IMO) to insert the cgaracter, who would show him the real value of life, so that his conflict had a real founadation: he hates Nazis for what they're doing, but at the same time he understands that they're just not conscious enough to appresiate their own life and, they are just dumb in his immortal eyes since they blindly follow the ideology. He's familiar with what the "crowd mind" can do. So, anyway, he eventualy he learns that he can't just kill all the nazis... something like that. I'm just putting my thoughts about it.
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What I meant, is that he has those questionable ethics for the begining, which makes for a good fight scenes, but after he learns to appresiate life and love his enemy.

[KoreanTacos]

A corporate billionaire loses his home and company and is left out in the streets. Hes taken into a shelter where he meets the woman of his dreams. Having nothing to offer he struggles with the idea of them having a future together as he is in constant need of the shelters care

Idk its an idea

[Nail]

That's a nice idea. I can relate in a way.

[Zaboem]

I like this one too. It's a simple story, but it has room for a lot of character development in a short space and two potentially interesting characters.

[minerrale]

Oooohhh I'm gonna be lurking this thread boys! Always looking for new short stories :3
(Also if you want you can pick a few from this thread, I never managed to get to them all...)
And here's a premice for y'all, while we're at it!
Santa Claus for animals is, in fact, a capybara. Animals have Christmas presents too!

[Nail]

Or let's okapi be the Santa.

It wouls make sense, that nobody believes it exist.
And let there be tarsius, who's conspiracy theorist, and each time someone talks about Okapi Santa, he throws this weird look at zebras. And zebras are like always there, nommater what the circumstances... they're like omnipresent.

And you definitelly should have fairy pink armadillo

[Zaboem]

Okay, I've got one which involves a minor bit of genre subversion.

We have all ready stories about fictional characters escaping into the real world (or what is for them a more real world). Doctor Moriarty escapes from the holodeck in Star Trek. We have all read stories in which characters are pulled into fictional realities -- think of Tron or Cool World for more older examples. Now, we combine the two. We have two protagonists in a video game scenario. One is the player and the other is the in-game character. They switch places.

[nitrobolt11]

So.... I'm making this novel series about a kid that goes to a school where fighters are the only people there. It's called "School with a shock" it's about a kid named Zap, who has the power of electricity and wears gloves to amplify the electricity. The school hierarchy is divided into three groups, Brawler- People that use their hands or weaponless magic. Duelist- People who use weapons, and Rangers- People who have ranged weapon for combat like guns, arrows or darts.

[nitrobolt11]

People argue whether he's a duelist or a brawler. People say he's a brawler because he uses his hands and were born with electricity powers. People say he's a duelist because he used gloves to amplify his power and to have a harder punch.

[solhawthorne]

Ooooh coming up with story premises are fun exercises. Too bad I've never actually been able to convert these to real stories. I've got a lot of them but here are some of the shorter ones, feel free to take and mold any of them!

1) The father/grandfather is a part of an organization that is quietly keeping full the resevoir of water that the world we know uses. They do this by filling out gruesome sacrifices to a powerful water deity. He absolutely hates his work, but if he didn't do it, the world would be without water. The deity marks sacrifices he wants with a brand and the organization is responsible for hunting down marked people. His granddaughters, along with everyone else, lived blissfully unaware of the machine that works to sustain their lives. When the grandfather finds out that his older granddaughter was marked, he takes a stand, whisking her away and tricking the spirit into consuming another sacrifice. The spirit, enraged, doubles the amount of sacrifices and cuts the amount of water he gave. Years later, the heroine uncovers her grandfather's journal, beginning her search, and a strange encryption appears on the back of her hand...

2) A mother/daughter duo of treasure hunters have been recruited to find a mysterious artifact but only when they find it do they realize its true power. The mother and daughter differ on what to do with it. The mom wants to get the job done with but the daughter thinks they should use it for their own purposes. They end up fighting each other to wrest control of the rock but together they accidentally realize that the organization intended to use the artifact in nefarious ways and that even the daughter underestimated how defiling the power was. Now they team up again to destroy the artifact while running from their powerful recruiters. Will they make it in time to destroy the object before the evil organization can steal it? Or before it completely engulfs the girl in the madness of power?

3) A middle-aged woman cop on the beat is an expert sleuth using her powers to speak to computers and devices. Her phone in particular is quite a chatty friend and sidekick. However, a new string of murders has begun to test her skills as all of them have been killed in a highly unusual way: they all died with a phone in their hand and a heart attack. None of the phones are responsive to the cop’s questioning and she begins to suspect someone else has a similar power, someone who is using it to settle scores and gain influence…

[Nail]

Ok, guys, if you share your ideas for discussion and appreciation, it's fine, and I'm totally onboard with this and won't interrupt the creative flow in any way. But the reason for the rule of "one phrase or two sentences" for a premise is, and I tell you this as a writter, that if you, can describe your premise in more than two sentances... it means that you have alredy have thought it through enough and, there's basicaly no creative freedom for other person to inherit the idea and make it to their own story.
What I want to say, is that, you can share your ideas however you want (I see it as a reasonable way to develope this thread) and I only encourage the dicussion around them, but if you want for me or someone else to write a story based on your idea, please, be biref, and follow the rules.

[nostalgicroxas]

Here's a few prompts from the last writing marathon I hosted; they'll work for short stories perfectly!

• windy day at the beach
• pumpkin carving
• flowers in winter
• saving the world by making a Halloween candy

And my group's favorite drumrolls

• fire breathing penguin

[Nail]

fire breathing penguin

https://tapas.io/episode/1275952

[simplykit]

ill give it a shot:

the year is 3020

a post apocalyptic world after WW5

dinosaurs ,humans and undead live together

the planet is dying and they must work together to find a home planet

[Nail]

Okay... I like it

[simplykit]

thanks

can you share yours?

[Nail]

Okuey.
A man wakes up in the middle of the night for the third time straight and sees somebody's cut-off head. He hear peoople moaning from undergound while this happens, and the head just taking fun out of him. This is based on a song by the ukrainian band Vij (Вій) Named "Відрізана голова" (Cut-off Head).

[simplykit]

sounds scary

id like to see that as a movie

[Nail]

Me either )
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