Thoughts for other stories:

While resting tonight, I came up with two short story ideas that I needed to write down. Here they are:

1. Sarah Shayne wishing upon the star to talk to Zayda.
2. The way older people always hover around younger people and enjoy speaking with them, almost like they were trying to relive their youth vicariously.
3. Repetitive conversation. People say such inane things, over and over. When they find something that’s funny, they keep saying it. People also tend to think about themselves at least 90% of the time. You should keep that in mind.
4. Why don’t you go through Shannon’s story and begin writing that?

Doesn’t sound that impressive looking back, but keep the ideas coming.

Here are some newer ones:

1. Story about an immortality pill—or at least, a story that takes place after society has perfected this pill. The distribution is controlled by the government, and society has become very careful about people’s lives, e.g., cars have been outlawed. People jump from job to job every five or ten years, but there’s little going on in anyone’s life. Perhaps make it a political story? A threatening country decides to attack because it doesn’t have access to the pill? A third world country? Countries outside of the “civilized world” do not have access to the pill. This can create a lot of conflict, and perhaps the scientific advancement of the immortality societies has weakened its abilities to defend itself? Now this is turning into a story. The pursuit of one of younger members of the society to take on this conflict head on instead of hiding out and appeasing its increasingly violent, uncivilized neighbor.
2. When you die, aliens claim your soul—death is actually a conspiracy of these aliens to acquire workers. Without the aliens’ interruptions, humans would live forever as was god’s plan. Brilliant!