story ideas

Let me expend some of my energies. Story ideas are a good place to begin. I have to expend these and let them fly out in the world so i can get past my obsession about writing on mental illness and medical hospitals, so i can write something a little more mainstream and less esoteric. That's the intention anyway. Plus these ideas aren't that inventive, in one way or another they revolve around my life.

--A woman police officer picks up an escaped mental patient from a luxury gated community. The patient is wearing business slacks, no shirt, and plastic sandals. In his pockets are a Costco club membership car and seed pods that rattle when shaken. The officer asks where he got this stuff and he says "You'd be surprised." She takes him back to the mental hospital he escaped from in handcuffs. Upon releasing him, his hand brushes her finger, and she sees a glaring light appear in front of her with the intensity of the sun. The patient collapses on the floor and has to be dragged to a chair in the middle of the hallway where he is seen convulsing. A nurse slaps him out of it. The woman police offficer leaves, but continues having visions for some time of bright lights. She sees her doctor who says "it's either schizophrenia, migranes, or a brain tumor." She asks about all three. "There is no test for schizophrenia or migranes, but we can scan your brain for any abnormalities." She agrees. A week later, she gets a call from the doctor explaining in a banal voice that she has a brain tumor the size of a blueberry, but that it's operable and it was caught just in time. She undergoes surgery, recovers, and wonders about the mental patient who touched her. She writes it off as a coincidence.

--Title "The Awakening of April" A young women living in a low income section of town awakens first to the blossomings of spring, and then to the fact that a Russian crime syndicate is manuevering its business into the neighborhood. Nobody believes her, people refuse to comment. Her boyfriend is mugged. She decides to do something about the syndicate by herself after police laugh her off as paranoid. Over a period of months she gets to know the Russians individually, then surprises each of them by inviting them over to dinner. They arrive separately, are pleasently surprised to see their comrades. Meanwhile, her boyfriend is cowering and being a jerk at the same time. The russians appreciate her hospitality, and proposition her to the effect that she could have a small job to play for the syndicate being that she is american. She reluctantly agrees, seeing no other option. After working for them, seeing the violence of the criminal profession and the corruption of law enforcement agencies, she looks at life differently, lamenting her innocent memories and placing a distinct value on life in the form of a discrete letter to her parents.

--Love develops in a mental institution between two patients. Of course they are torn apart and never see each other again, but their experience permeates their recovery

--A college poetry professor in a perpetual state of wonder at the world. This gets him into trouble when he begins to seduce his young students. Makes an impassioned speech to the administration board thinking of firing him. They go with the standard policy decision and the professor is forced to become a poor poet again, relying on his somewhat questionable charm with women to support himself through entirely female earnings and handouts. He becomes a minor poet in a circle of regional writers until he writes a memoir expressing the beauty of love and sex, mingled with poetic considerations of the wonder of the world. The book is called "The Rebirth of Wonder." He becomes a famous writer and lives in Paris, finally dying of cirrohsis of the liver like most of the French do anyway

Thats it for now, i know there are some i have forgotten. I am nervously awaiting a response on a story i wrote for a private internet writing group, which i got into by way of professional pleading and flattery.

Someone write a poem with me!