Recently I posted on facebook for friends to come up with random words that I could string along somehow into a plot idea for a story. Here are the ones that I am considering to use for short story inspiration :

1.  Bacchus the god of wine teaches his secret art of transubstantiation to a young wine maker named Louie. Louie is
attempting to carry on the family legacy of winemaking while fending off creditors.

2. A failed playwrite must entertain a group of “pissed-off” vampires who “don’t get” the 21st century after years of slumber. By
making the present so alien and mundane, he hopes they will go back to sleep for another hundred years.

3. A family of “gate patrollers” of our world and the underworld suddenly are caught smuggling supernaturals into our world in exchange
for power. Conflict ensues as the family is torn apart and betrayed by this careless use of power.

4. In the Middle Ages a commoner is having dreams relating to the 21st century. He becomes inspired to invent several historic
inventions with the materials available to him in his time period. However this is viewed as science and anything stopping him will risk
off-setting the future…and his dreams.

5. Space travel based on rocket missions of the 1960s is still available today. We’ve colonized the moon but what is going
on with Mars? After a cutoff in communications with the red planet, the protagonist of the story searches for clues and finds out that
we’ve been to Mars once before, over a 100 years earlier through the use of steam.

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