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: Terracotta
Army
Current event: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terracotta_Army
This got me
thinking – if there are some 8000 pieces (and about as many are still
buried)…what if the mother of a teenager was working as part of an
international team and uncovered something unusual (not that a standing army of
16,000 horses, soldiers, acrobats and various and sundry other “people” isn’t
unusual enough!) What if she discovered a unique figure, say a woman that has
been knocked down and is crying out in terror, with her arm upraised as a man
draws back a spear and is obviously about to run her through…is there a curse
on this piece that comes to haunt the teen and their mom? Or is it case for a
forensic anthropologist (or would it be, more appropriately a forensic
terracottaist) and was a MURDER involved which someone commemorated? Who did
the commemorating, who was the perpetrator – and what if it had a connection to
the present?
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