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: Apparently no one has ever thought of an “armies of things that aren’t
supposed to be alive”. So, here’s an idea…
Current Event:
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 who 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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