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You don't really like him, but you understand him a little bit, in spite of yourself, and so you maybe give him a nod or say hello or mention when you noticed a free item by the curb or you hand him your leftovers when you come out of the restaurant. And then you notice that he's turning up everywhere, and that's more than a little creepy. Because yes, the poor are everywhere, but usually they're more than one person. It makes you kind of nervous. This isn't right. But you don't really want to talk to him, you don't really want to know, you don't really want to think that there might be something deeper going on here. So you still give him your leftovers and you keep going. You start reading the cardboard sign he puts in front--

Inspiration: "Daily Show" interviewing Ben Stiller about some movie he's in.
Story Potential: High.
Notes: High potential not necessarily on its own, but because this would be a decent premise for a writing challenge to write in second person. Could work. Could be really damn creepy, yet magic realismy etc. Butterflies involved somewhere-camouflage? Mass hiding as a singular? Migration? Must not make preachy, and that's the hard part. Well, that and writing a good 2nd-person story.
They greeted the rising sun with the joy of children unsure that the darkness would ever leave them, though they didn't know how close it had been. The sacrifice on the stone closed his eyes in joy, as his blood ran down the runnels and then slowly trickled to a stop as the rising sun painted everything the red of his blood. His body's heat cooled as the rest of the world warmed from his sacrifice. The wreath of holly on his head fell to the ground, leaving pin-pricks of blood along his brow. His fight done, the spear fell from his slack hand. He died, and passed from life into legend.


Inspiration: High
Story Potential: High. Really high!
Notes: This is the ending, so it should be the beginning. And it's real. He's the sacrifice, and he goes and does what he needs to to make the sun come again and stay longer. Lover, scholar, warrior, which? All? This is a story best told circular, which will be an interesting challenge for me. Of course, naturally I think of this *after* when I should write it to get it published this year. Because this is a winter solstice/Easter(?) story. So I should have written and submitted it last October. Ah, well, adding a note to the calendar for next year.

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