Amnesia: Women's Lit

The amnesia impulse came on her in the night. She rose from the bed, leaving her husband snuffling in his sleep among the blankets, and walked to the window. Silver moonlight shone down upon the back yard, and she saw it with the eyes of a stranger. She saw beauty where she'd only seen duty during the day, the duty to trim and tidy and weed and water and. She turned quickly in the moonlight, glancing back on her bed as if she thought her husband might have vanished. She pulled the curtain aside further and its silver light brushed over him, revealing a young prince gilded in silver, lying asleep and waiting for Princess Charming to kiss him awake. Unexpected--

Inspiration: "Feign Amnesia" by They Might Be Giants
Story Potential: High
Notes: I like the idea of her choosing amnesia deliberately, and yet having it be real. Make it all magic realismy. Might catch the--not chick lit, but "women's literature" market, and maybe some of the fantasy. Would need an external threat, too, or would get boring. Sorta romance, sorta self-realization, sorta fantasy. Smells like a novel. (Man, I'm going to need forever to write all the stories I think are neat!)

Murder in Reverse: Murder Mystery

Idea - A murder story in reverse (murder at the end instead of the beginning), beginning with a premeditation. Filter in small details throughout plot as premeditated details come in, have "detective" character watching. Murder would occur at the very end, and detecting would come before. Does that make it a thriller?

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Hate the Underdog: Action

Idea - Start in media res - for example a car wreck - start with character in peril to make you care (go, underdog!), have yourself being happy he survived, step back in time to plot, realize he's a bad guy, cut back to survival and now you're totally against him. Readers remember getting headfucked!

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Compulsive Prophecy: Fantasy

Idea - Prophecier is forced to prophecy by compulsion (not torture, just can't not), but hates those whose success is being prophecied, so tries to express the prophecy in a way that will make them fuck themselves over.

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Tales of the Taverns: Fantasy

Idea - Though in most stories, prophecies and tales told in taverns are always critical, could have multiple confliction/confusing and not important except in that they're not.

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