I’m brainstorming long stories for this month, and here’s a few I’ve been playing with:
Parking Lot Crimes: A soccer mom accidentally runs over a vampire in a Macy’s parking lot and has to take her home with her in order to stop the entire coven from coming after her.
A sapphic story of love between a neurotic divorcee and the evil undead who enjoys long baths, strong drinks, and not being trapped on people’s couches. (wlw urban fantasy comedy)
The Poison-Keeper: A spy is sent to become a food-taster for a spoiled young King and destroy his source of power- a talisman that allows him insights into the future and victory for his armies.
Jack would be perfectly happy to complete the task and leave if the King didn’t see something his future that he can’t ignore. (historical fantasy mlm)
Time Sifting: after a villain hits a superhero with a Time Ray she stops experiencing time as linear and instead experiences it all at once.
The hero must now sift through her own timeline in order to remember her wife and how to reach her before the villain does. (Superhero sci-fi story)
Miss Texas Blues: Roy Larson is addicted to a lot of things: falling in love with strangers on the bus, dogs with little pink noses, drugs, alcohol, being on twitter too much, misspelled t-shirts, rainy days- but mostly the drugs and alcohol thing.
He’s living a fine existence on his friends couch and stranger’s lawns until his sister has a chance to become Miss Texas and swoops in to clean him up and shove him at her neighbor to sober up and straighten out- the straightening out part at least doesn’t happen. (family drama + mlm slice of life comedy)
Dear Window Washer: A human journalist encounters an avian girl as she washes the windows of her office.
The young columnist works on the 38th floor of a building. She struggles with her new assignment as the voice of “Dear Laurie,” but barely knows how to keep her own life together- much less how to advise others.
Semiria didn’t come to the city to wash windows, but she has rent to pay and a pair of wings so there wasn’t really a better job. Between the two of them they start eyeing each other through the windows. (wlw urban fantasy)
Here’s a little story poll on which one sounds best!