Suggest a Story (Round 1)

[YGG-]

"Hidden obviousness"
A couple, a walk in the city and a non-ending?

[zelda_pinwheel]

i love it so far.

[Moejoe]

Originally Posted by YGG-

"Hidden obviousness"
A couple, a walk in the city and a non-ending?

There's one more for the list 2 slots left, people, get it while it's hot!!

3 slots left, counted wrong

[Moejoe]

Originally Posted by pshrynk

Around the MUlberry Bush

A dog disguised as a Dalek, a sexy German Interpol Agent, and a flying car.

Too late, you already have one (cheeky monkey trying to sneak an extra one in there)

[netseeker]

Originally Posted by Moejoe

[I]Here's the list so far:
[..]
(I'll update as I write the openings)

Oh great, the spiders are in game as well as all those other great suggestions. I guess you will have some hard writing-days soon.

[Moejoe]

All the stories suggested so far, now have opening paragraphs

Magic in the Wind (Dreams)

That morning he ignored the ringing phone and instead watched the dawn light through the window.

Llounge Llamas in Love (Vivaldirules)

They came form the snow, an avalanche of men clad in gold and sequins, their legend tattoo stitched in rhinestones across their shoulders.

Llounge Llamas.

Afterglow (Ralph Sir Edward)

In the Kingdom of the Blind...
In the Kingdom of the Blind...[/I]
The thought rolled in Sebastian Newman’s head like a sneaker in a tumble dryer clattering against the steel drum.
There was no Kingdom for the blind, or the nearly blind. Only a prison cell that became smaller with each and every day. What was left now but the unseen sunsets, the lost dawns, the fading light of day.

The Insane Blue (Geoff C)

Chocolate to the left of them, chocolate to the right...and not a bite could be eaten.

The Moonlit Skye (LazyScot)

The sound of the dance was a distant and beautiful thunder that reached all the way to the lonely sands of the moon touched beach. From there, as electric quick as a thought, it triggered a secret wish, a tremor in Carly Argyle's legs.

A tremor that would never become a full blown earthquake.

My Hovercraft is Full of Eels (Vivaldirules)

"My Hovercraft is Full of Eels, now what do you think of that particular title, Mrs. Featherbottom?"

Featherbottom, her face powdered white with concern, let out a small and not incosiderable grunt of displeasure.

"Mr. Dickens, I have been your confident and housekeeper nigh on fifteen years, and as yet I have never heard such an absurd notion. What, pray, is a Hovercraft and why would it be filled with eels?"

Gamelan and High Tea (Montsmags)

At first Carlos thought it was raining, but when in history had it rained flowers? And if such an incredible event had occurred, was it also accompanied by music?

He thought not.

Spider Dreams (Netseeker)

When he wasn't lying, Bill, for everyone called him by that name, liked to play cruel games.

Wisconsin Heat (pshyrnk)

The ice was too thick to crack. Four hours and Jimbo Donn had little more than a fist-sized hole dug out from the surface, not enough to pull out a fish, let alone slip a body into.

The Pouf (SteveJordan)

The Zephyr Model 74 automated mannequin had one serious flaw.

Strange Weather (Zelda Pinwheel)

Lydia couldn't help but think that the old poem might be true.

Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.

Hidden Obviousness (YGG)

She had the look of a woman who regularly broke promises and smiled while doing so. Then why did he love her so?

Tequila Mockingbird (curtw)

"You know what I hate about Susan Swan?" Francine said and downed another Tequila Slammer from the table.

Barbara narrowed her eyes and captured the Prom Queen's table far, far away from the rest. And in those eyes she captured Susan Swan, that never-aging, always pretty, teeth as white as as the whitest snow beauty.

"No, what?" Barbara said.

Francine jammed her empty shot glass on the table, picked up another, knocked that back and wiped the spittle from her streaked-lipsticked mouth.

"Everything," she said.

If Not, Then What? (Basschick)

Hovering above the date, scrawled with a childish glee, was a picture of a flying saucer.

April 1st.

A day for pranks and bad jokes, but not this year. This year, William Smith would become the first human to be visited, and not just in fever dreams or hallucinations, by an alien intelligence.

Am I a figment of my imagination - or yours? (columbus)

The cat, the dog and the bird weren't speaking to him. Which was odd. The last time Harold Dove had checked, he was still certifiably insane.

Suddenly September (Moe the Cat)


"Have you heard?" Goldblum said.

Derrick Cavannah lifted his head from his inspection of the tabulation machine and seeing only the annoyance that was his desk partner, refused speech in favour of shrugged shoulders.

"You're a man who doesn't get excited by much, aren't you, Cavannah? Here I am with earth-shattering news and all you can do is look at me like I'm some percentage deduction on a yearly tax statement."

"What news?" Cavannah found his voice, and it was a calm and flat as a set of books always in the black.

"The Shakespeare Initiave, you dolt. Those bods in R&D are talking about pushing it out before Septemeber."

Cavannah let out a meagre sigh and turned back to his machine and the numbers there that were never surprising, that never brought news, good or bad. Numbers were easy, they made sense, unlike Goldblum.

[curtw]

title: Tequila Mockingbird

elements: a 10-year high school reunion, a glassblower and the letter "Z."

[Moejoe]

Originally Posted by curtw

title: Tequila Mockingbird

elements: a 10-year high school reunion, a glassblower and the letter "Z."

Added And thanks for joining in 2 slots left now, folks.

[pshrynk]

Reading Wisconsin Heat, I can't wait to see the rest of it!

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by pshrynk

Reading Wisconsin Heat, I can't wait to see the rest of it!

i can't wait to read ALL of them !! i love the first lines of strange weather.

[Moejoe]

Originally Posted by pshrynk

Reading Wisconsin Heat, I can't wait to see the rest of it!

I think it's going to be a bit of a hard-boiled crime thing, with a twist. Now, if I make any mistakes about Wisconsin (and my knowledge of the place is limited to say the least), be sure and let me know Wisconsin is all about the Cheese, right?

[Moejoe]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

i can't wait to read ALL of them !! i love the first lines of strange weather.

That story is already half-written, who would have known glasses were so magical?

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by Moejoe

That story is already half-written, who would have known glasses were so magical?

arg, stop it ! i'm already so impatient i can barely stand it !!

[Moejoe]

Anybody know anything about putting works into the Public Domain? I'm using Escape at the moment, but I think there might be a conflict wrapping up the public domain texts inside a not-for-commercial use generated epub. Maybe I should ask over in the Escape thread?

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by Moejoe

Anybody know anything about putting works into the Public Domain? I'm using Escape at the moment, but I think there might be a conflict wrapping up the public domain texts inside a not-for-commercial use generated epub. Maybe I should ask over in the Escape thread?

hmm, i would think it would be the opposite (it might be a problem if you wanted to *sell* the stories, to use a "not for commercial use" software) but i'm no expert... you're probably right to ask in the escape thread. but why do you need to do the conversion yourself ? aren't you putting them on feedbooks as usual ?