Random Stories
Stories waiting
to be written.
Here are some ideas
for stories. Take them, use them, change them and call them your
own. They will be your own in any case, once you make the effort
to develop them and write them. And they are just ideas
- they are very undeveloped.
Monkey Boy - A religious and serious
young man discovers that he is the result of artificial insemination.
The sperm donor was an ape. He has to reconcile this with what
he thinks of himself, and with his religion. Is he a man? Can
he go to heaven? He soon fears for his life, as religious leaders
seek to hide the truth that might challenge the faith of their
followers.
Blind Man Talking
- The story
of a man that goes blind. It should start at a point where he
has been blind for a while, and retrace his life. There is no
physical reason for his blindness, no diagnosis or theory that
doctors can give him. In the end we discover,as he does, that
it is psychosomatic, and due to the fact that he saw only through
his words. Only by losing his sight could he learn to truly see,
and somewhere inside he knew this, and made the sacrifice. It
might end with his sight returning.
The Tree - There is a hot spring in
the desert where people have come for ages. In this story we
follow the conversations on life and the meaning of life that
take place here. We are introduced to all sorts of interesting
theories and ideas, many of them conflicting with each other.
There is a large cottonwood tree that overhangs the hot spring,
which is described at various points during the story. In the
end we see that the story is really about the tree, as it demonstrates
life in it's essence, rather than in theory.
The True Desires
Of A Fish -
A fish believes he is a bird, and jumps from the water repeatedly.
He thinks he is a snake and crawls onto the shore. Dying there,
he remembers that he is a fish. With some effort, he flops his
way back to the water, and is at peace. A man thinks he is his
status, and thinks he is his possessions. He is laying there
gasping for air one day, and he remembers what he truly is, and
is at peace.
The Morality Of
Monkeys - A
race of monkeys learns to speak, but in a language that has only
thirty words at first. A moral code is created and it leads to
horrible results because of the limited ability of those thirty
words to define what is right and wrong in every circumstance.
The language expands and a new morality is developed, with the
same results, and for the same reasons. The obvious implication
is that perhaps no amount of words will ever be sufficient to
"capture" the truth of reality or right and wrong infallibly.
This will grow into
many pages eventually, so check back for more ideas for stories.
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