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2. CHAOS + INSPIRATION =
“A man is narcoleptic his
whole life, then comes to
find that he shares a
mind with a serial killer.
Only one of them can
remain conscious at a
time.”
3. CHAOS + INSPIRATION =
“A 50 year old man wakes up as a
15 year old boy and tries to right
all the mistakes of his youth,
which ultimately ends in a
devastating and dismal account
as he unintentionally destroys his
chances of ever seeing his future
children. Oh God, what a terrible
story.”
4. CHAOS + INSPIRATION =
“We actually exist in
the afterlife at
present but the
universe needs us
to think we are alive
so we stay out of
trouble.”
5. CHAOS + INSPIRATION =
“Archeologists
discover a fossilized
exact duplicate of an
existing metropolitan
city under the ocean,
as if it all had been
done before.”
6. CHAOS + INSPIRATION =
“An author finds characters for
their novel at a local restaurant,
choosing regulars as their main
characters. As they write a
murder mystery they discover
that the people are acting out
what the author has written, and
the author has unconsciously
added themselves as a
character.”
7. CHAOS + INSPIRATION =
“An urban hospital harbors
an ancient vampire in the
sub basement that is
infused with fresh blood
from the patients and
provides a life-extending
substance to the rich and
powerful in return.”
8. CHAOS + INSPIRATION =
“An old man is in a hospital bed
surrounded by creatures made from
various parts of human bodies. He
looks at the television. Images of chaos
and carnage flash on as armies of the
creatures destroy humanity. One of the
creatures gently and lovingly brushes
his thinning gray hairs from his eyes
and whispers ‘we will always protect you
father.’ As he closes his eyes and begins
to weep.”
9. CHAOS + INSPIRATION =
“A protagonist accidently
discovers that our present
reality is a simulation
generated by a quantum
computer and must consider
the ramifications of
disclosing this news to the
world.”
10. CHAOS + INSPIRATION =
“There is a meat
inspector for cannibals,
resulting in crazy
hijinks.”
11. CHAOS + INSPIRATION =
“A monster that has lived
in a swamp for centuries
gets on Youtube and goes
viral, eventually falling in
love with a retired 80’s
all girl band rock diva
and wins the girl against
all odds by becoming a
champion downhill
skier.”
12. CHAOS + INSPIRATION =
“A talking car
convinces its owner
to start making
appropriate
retirement
contributions.”
13. CHAOS + INSPIRATION =
“A scientist builds a
machine that projects
a light that travels
through time, allowing
the user to observe
both the future and
the past.”
14. CHAOS + INSPIRATION =
“A scientist discovers that
some ghosts are the result of
traumatic events that imprint
metallic ores, to be replayed
with the input of electrical
energy from storms, geologic
pressure, or magnetism.”
15. CHAOS + INSPIRATION =
“The woods are haunted
by a ghost. Something
that never walked the
Earth human; an ancient,
extinct, unknown and
intelligent beast.”
16. CHAOS + INSPIRATION =
“A girl discovers an area
in her house where lost
items inexplicably
reappear. One day a
person appears with no
memory of who they are.”
17. CHAOS + INSPIRATION =
“A massive computer in a self-
contained space station
created with cloned brain
cells has attracted unbound
spirits who then inhabit it,
with the outcome being a
multiple-personality ghost-
brain computer that can
manipulate matter and time
through thought.”
18. CHAOS + INSPIRATION =
“The protagonist wakes up naked in the
dark. As they stumble around they find
more naked people, dozens all
unconscious and waking up. They are all
in a large room – a metallic chamber.
Biomechanical arms drop from above
and start removing people and washing
them off with a slimy substance that
removes hair. Panic ensues. A few team
up and escape to an air duct. They
realize they have been abducted by
aliens and are being kept in livestock
pens on the mothership.”
19. CHAOS + INSPIRATION =
“A magic gorilla that
poops gold is abducted
by proto-Nazis at the
1933 Worlds fair
resulting in a completely
explainable car chase in
downtown Chicago.”
