Each Tuesday, rather than a POSSIBLY
IRRITATING ESSAY, I'd like to both challenge you and lend a helping hand. I
generate more speculative and teen story ideas than I can ever use. My family
rolls its collective eyes when I say, "Hang on a second! I just have to
write down this idea..." Here, I'll include the initial inspiration
(quote, website, podcast, etc) and then a thought or two that came to mind.
These will simply be seeds -- plant, nurture, fertilize, chemically treat,
irradiate, test or stress them as you see fit. I only ask if you let me know if
anything comes of them.
H Trope: The
Abandoned Mall…
In the 1978
horror flick, DAWN OF THE DEAD (written and directed by the master horror
director, George Romero), after the zombie apocalypse, a mall becomes a refuge
for a couple of humans who clean out the zombies and go on a wild shopping
spree. Of course, that doesn’t last long and the zombies get in and go on a
nasty eating spree…
But what if we
turned this idea on its head?
I don’t live far
from the mall depicted above – so what if we have a dead mall. Teenagers wangle
their way into it one night to fight – maybe rival gangs, or just kids that don’t
like each other.
Maybe a couple
of them are in love, in opposing gangs...Xab Vang is a young lady who wants
more – she wants to be a nuclear physicist. Miguel Ángel Nacan tends to be a
bit lazy, but has a really good mind. He COULD be a lawyer, but his parents
just want him to work with them...
What nobody
noticed as that the mall was scheduled for destruction by dynamite the next
morning. Trying to escape through the entry point, they discover that it’s been
blocked…in fact, they can’t get out. Something; someone; WHAT has trapped them
in the mall…and now what happens to our star-crossed lovers?
Say sort of a…West
Side Story with zombies, gang fights, and urban renewal...
Names: ♀
Hmong ; ♂ Mexican, Mayan 
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