Sunday, October 19, 2014
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Story Sparks #4

Dialogue
“I make it a point to become friends with
people's enemies.”
“I will either live gloriously or
die gloriously. There is no in between.”
"I have nothing to apologize
for. And even if I did, I wouldn't. So there."
“I'd been turned down so many
times I figured that by now, chance HAD to be on my side. It doesn't even make
sense mathematically that someone could fail so many times and not get lucky
even once.”
“I’m glad salvation isn't through
works, because today I'm not gonna be perfect.”
“What's your favorite color?”
“Gunpowder grey.”
“I'm sure you meant that to sound
all tough and manly but that sounds like a Crayola color name.”
Scraps
The city’s air was thick and
smelled of wet leaves and old coins.
Everyone always bewares of the
quiet broody ones in hoodies. But the really scary ones are the chatty, kawaii,
bubbly ones you never see coming.
“One has but to look at you and
one sees, here's a woman who may be happy or unhappy, but isn't bored.”
–quote from Anna Kerenina.
The world rushes past the car
window. Trees flicker by, blurred like looking out from a spinning carousel. The
wheels churn the ground leaving a trail of gold dust in the air and light
paints the tops of the trees in orange as the sun recedes behind the mountains.
I will it to linger, for those lighted canopies are the last thing my hungry
eyes can hold on to.
A very Sherlock style deduction:
if someone watches one channel a lot, the logo watermark of the channel may be
burned into the person’s TV screen.
“The Worst of Both Worlds” (would
be an amusing book title)
A guy who is so antisocial he
goes into a drive-in instead of a theatre to see movies, so he can sit inside
his car, not next to people.
A guy has a cat and often brings
the cat to visit his mother in a very nice care facility that he provides for
her, where they have nice rooms and windows and sunshine. His mother has a fixation
with painting flower pots, so he brings her flowers to put in the pots. He also
brings his cat there to visit her which she enjoys very much. The sad part? His
mother has severe memory loss and doesn’t remember her son, and ends up
remembering the cat more than him. So he ends up being jealous of his own cat,
but still faithfully visits his mother. (This was actually an idea I had for an
antagonist...because I believe in rounded antagonists and wanted to show a soft
side!)
“ Delusional disorder is an uncommon
psychiatric condition in which the patients present with delusions, but
with no accompanying prominent hallucinations,
thought disorder, mood disorder, or significant flattening of affect.[1][2]Delusions
are a specific symptom of psychosis. Non-bizarre delusions are fixed false beliefs
that involve situations that could potentially occur in real life; examples
include being followed or poisoned.[3] Apart
from their delusions, people with delusional disorder may continue to socialize
and function in a normal manner and their behavior does not generally seem odd
or bizarre.[4]However,
the preoccupation with delusional ideas can be disruptive to their overall
lives.” –Wikipedia
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