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.
A long time ago –
post number 12 to be exact – I did my FIRST Horror idea. I’d like to repeat it
here, on the anniversary of the 300th idea. I didn’t have the format
down then, so this isn’t QUITE as thought out as I do things now, but here it is,
idea 14, Horror Idea #1:
The Strangest
Army on Earth
I know this is
just a wiki, but this idea was inspired by a former student of mine who became
a physics teacher and is currently teaching in China. He visited this site
several weeks ago and has posted pictures on Facebook. His pictures of this
army came up recently and though I couldn’t link directly to his Facebook, I
linked here:
It 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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