Free Ideas

Ideas are free! Here are some ideas for anyone to use:

Start a story with the line, "Call me, Ishmael!"

A person travels into the past by visiting the town he lived in as a child, where he went to high school, college, etc.  Perhaps he visits the future by going to the place where he is going to retire.

A dead rock star (e.g. Kurt Cobain, John Lennon, Sid Vicious) starts a new band.

The history of a bed.

A female superhero with a boy sidekick.

Platinum Age (turn of the century) DC superheroes: Nietzschean Superman, Draculean Batman, Flashpowder, Emerald Lantern, etc.

Superhero universe with a finite number of supers ... when one dies another person gains powers.

A young superhero can see the future, and an older superhero can change the past.

A middle-aged person sees a friend from high school who hasn't aged.

A Better Mousetrap: a rewrite of the classic stage play "The Mousetrap".

A reporter specializing in human interest stories about recently deceased people picks his own subjects ... before they die.

Trek to Middle-Earth: The USS Enterprise visits the planet of Middle-Earth, Spock mistaken for an elf, "Dammit, Jim, I'm a doctor, not a wizard!", Scotty mistaken for hobbit due to accent, Uhura as token woman.

Faustian Rip-Off: a Godly man sells his soul to Devil, which poisons him.

Hell on Earth: Global warming is the advent of Hell, which is God's punishment for bad stewardship, materialism, etc.

It's a Life: A person makes a wish to see what the world would be like if they'd never been born, and it turns out nothing is different.

MAZAHS! - superpower fantasy for middle aged man: transformed into virile young man

Sci fi bit: a daredevil future astronaut goes hotdogging in space without a spacesuit (just a force field air bubble).

Armageddon now! - The rapture is upon us, God has taken in his chosen ones, leaving only the not-so-chosen behind. Nobody noticed.

Online Banking - the movie!

The events that lead to putting up the sign: "On this site, in 1907, nothing happened."

Stromtroopers Academy - we follow a group of young, enthusiastic empire patriots as they learn all about shooting to not kill, following orders and getting killed off during their first battle.