Showing posts with label story titles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label story titles. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Story Ideas (Part I)

Old story ideas that never went anywhere:

 

"Cheesestick Conundrum"

A waitress at a chain restaurant tells the story about a former regular who comes in only for the friend mozzarella cheesesticks, marinara sauce and a glass of sparkling wine, Why the cheesestick obsession? Who's the weird customer? 

 

"Living Cheap"

Meet Olivia Hartford Cheap. She's a kindergarten teacher who loves her job. She's married to her husband Jonathan, but feels disconnected from him and his high-powered job as a stockbroker. They are very different personality-wise. Jonathan, according to her, lives up to his namesake. "He's so cheap, his shoes squeak when he walks." Can this unlikely partnerhood be saved?

 

"Four Corners of the World"

Tahra lives in a small village, comrpised of homes and shops surrounding a village square. Every day, she runs errands and meets the townspeople. One man, in particular, catches her interest. He had left the village as a young man, experienced the world, then returned to live out the rest of his days. Tahra spends time listening to his stories, despite his admonitions to 'mind the present'. Following his advice, she ventures out, little by little, further from the town square. She finds the exotic and the new is embedded in the ordinary.

 

"Sitting in a Blue Window"

Maya Lipski had everything to live for: a wonderful job offer, a new hometown, and a man who loved her. Then an automobile accident changes everything forever...

She finds herself in her version of Heaven: in a huge library, where the past, present and future are open to her. She finds herself looking at parts of her life and possible futures. An insidious danger threatens the library and the fates of her loved ones on Earth. Maya must risk her own existence to save all she treasures.

 

Friday, December 16, 2011

Random titles (for stories, I suppose)...

I have a whole page of story titles in my notebook. Usually they come to me out of nowhere, and I have to write them down before I forget them. These particular ones are completely random and I've never used them. Some come to me with full-blown plots, others are just strays that wander in and I end up wondering where they came from.

 

"Faking It: Act Like a Star, They'll Think You're a Star."

"Origami First Drafts"

"A Lot of Plot on a Plot of Lot's"

"Invisible Ink"

"The Generous Miser"

"The Literal Elephant."

"The Dog Fit in Her Purse"

"Engraved"

"Tell Me a Lie, Tell Me a Truth"

"The Underpainting"

"Done for Good or Done for Now?"

"When I Stopped Being Happy"

"The Tiger, The Sorcerer, and the Stinky Closet"

"Family's Medicine"

"Stars, Rectangles, Squares and Circles"

"The Arsenic is Behind the Wafers"

"So Many Sins...Where Do You Want to Start?"

"House Blend Colored Blue"

"Cook's Illustrated"

"The Typist's Apprentice"

"Blazing Demons, Humble Angels"

"An Entire Tour of the Cosmos"

"The In-Reach Outreach Program"

"Anna's Lowest Prices"

"That Basement isn't a Bargain"