Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Do You Speak Genderese?

Bob Polymorphus is a nationally-renown expert in "Genderese," a language discovered in late 2018 that all women "speak" -- without uttering, a language with its own rules and vocabulary that men never hear as though it was a high-frequency whistle too fine for human ears to detect.

"Genderese" consists of… [rules of this esoteric language that ALL women speak but men never understand]

Bob becomes a regular guest on Oprah and receives a UN Humanitarian award until his rivals discover his dirty secret… A gender comedy.

(The rest of this 550-word story idea is in Vol 2 of "Zillions! of Movie and Story Ideas" by Gary Karbon.)

Monday, January 26, 2009

Private Hells

River Creek, Montana is a small town facing the growing pains of a community not ready for explosive expansion. The discovery of a uranium mine ten years ago brought much money to the community, plus a lot of immigrants and transients. To top it off, the new STATE JAIL made a lot of residents jumpy.

But things went surprisingly well when the inmates volunteered for outside work and started to take care of many public work chores for free, including… shoveling snow and scraping ice from the roads, cleaning up the cemeteries, working at the County Recycling Center, repairing 3 highway bridges, setting up election booths, putting up flags on 4th of July and Veterans Day, in short, making a real and positive difference in the daily life of a city when public finance was in dire straits.

Then one day, the State decides to shut down the jail and move it some place else… That's when the residents realize they can not live without the inmates and their free labor. So they come up with an alternative plan to keep the jail in town… a plan that changes the lives of many residents and inmates in ways that no one could foresee before hand…

(The rest of this 800-word story is in "Zillions of Movie and Story Ideas! Vol 2 by Gary Karbon" available soon...)