Top 10 Stories I have come up with

Top 10 Stories I have come up with

The following is a list of 10 stories—from various genres and whatnot—that I have thought of myself. Some of them might be a tad far-fetched, but some I feel would make either really good movies or novels. Here are the top 10 stories I have come up with:


“Karate Fighters”
A group of karate experts interrelated through friendships and family discover they can harness supernatural abilities that relate to their outfit (i.e. the tiger ninja can transform into a tiger, the dragon ninja transforms into a dragon, the fire ninja becomes the human torch, etc.). They battle forces of nature and sometimes even each other in their conquest for world peace. I envisioned this as a series of movies—although I never really developed serious plots for any.  I came up with this idea through the Karate Fighters toys I had as a kid.  

“A Thousand Miles”
A man and woman from California in their 20s meet at a carnival and fall in love. Everything is going great for them until out of the blue, the man has to transfer to Seattle for his job and move up there. The woman being extremely poor, barely surviving as a waitress, cannot afford to move so she stays in California, and they try long-distance, which involves only the exchange of letters. The woman, however, decides she’s had it, and even though she doesn’t have a car, decides to go to Seattle—ON FOOT. She walks a thousand miles up I-5 (hence the title—cue Vanessa Carlton’s famous song) and she gets the media to follow her along the way. She eventually gets to her boyfriend’s door and stays there and they live happily ever after.  This would probably be set before the age of computers and cell phones.  The 80s, perhaps?

“Beauty and the Geek”
This sort of goes along the same lines as “I Love You Beth Cooper”, but I thought of this before I Love You Beth Cooper came out. Anyway, of course there is this geek, who is madly infatuated with the head cheerleader, the alpha female of the school.  They've gone to school ever since Kindergarten and we find out from this "Geek" they have a ton in common.  We see his feeble attempts to just make contact with her. After meeting a few new friends, they decide to give him a makeover over winter break—big time. He ditches the glasses, changes his wardrobe, changes his hairstyle, you name it. He comes back and the “beauty” thinks he is a new student, so he plays along and adopts this alter ego. They go to prom together, and there she finds out the truth, and she's hurt at first, but one last display of affection brings her back to him.

“Genocide”Genocide is about earth falling prey to a swarm of alien warships whose soul intent is to wipe out the earth of all human inhabitants. It centers on a man, his girlfriend and his best friend, who battle these aliens. I actually came up with two different stories, an original and its sequel. The first one is set in Seattle while its sequel is set in Los Angeles. In the first one, the aliens are unarmed and beatable. In the 2^nd one, we learn that the first set were merely minions set to test out the strength of the human race, and we see main characters get captured and interrogated.

“Taboo”Taboo is named such because of all the wrong or “taboo” things the main characters do in the film. Basically, a full-time burglar breaks into a house, believing it to be empty, only to discover a teenage girl inside. Instead of harming her, he kidnaps her and takes her with him, so he wouldn’t be ratted out to the police. While he decides what to do with the girl—here’s the kicker: they fall in love. The girl realizes that the burglar (named Troy) isn’t really a bad guy, just a guy who’s had a hard life—and Troy realizes the girl’s life has been pretty similar. They go burglarizing houses together, but unfortunately, they both get caught. Troy is put on trial (but not the girl) and he goes to jail. In jail, he develops a friendship with a few of the inmates who hear of his story and devise a plan to bust him out. Troy escapes past the confines of the prison, but is shot down by a guard in a tower right in front of the girl who was there waiting for him.

”One Two Punch”One Two Punch is one of the stories I’m most proud of—because I actually finished it and actually wrote it all out. Most of it can be found on my other blog here: http://briguy17.blogspot.com/. Basically, a man who is struggling to make ends meet as a teacher sees this father/son basketball tournament with a substantial prize and decides to find his long lost son (that he gave up for adoption at age 16 because of an unplanned pregnancy with his high school girlfriend). He finds him through his ex-girlfriend and they develop a bond.  And get this: His son turns out to be one of his students.  He's not gifted athletically, but the teacher/dad is, having been a basketball player in college.  They enter the tournament and win it, although there is controversy since this teacher isn’t the boy’s legal guardian. Also, the teacher reunites with his ex-girlfriend and they fall back in love. I don’t have the full story up because of a computer crash (lost the last 1/3 of my story), but I know what happens.

“Transit Terror”Set in Seattle (where else?), a man travelling with his daughter to Seattle on a Seattle metro bus receives the shock of a lifetime—their bus is being hijacked by terrorists. The terrorists plan is to crash the bus into the Space Needle, and with the help of explosives attached to the bottom of a bus, they plan to knock the needle to the ground.  We find out one of the terrorists started working as a mechanic for the metro company and planted the bombs.  However, our hero, with the help of a few passengers, thwart the terrorists and save the Space Needle. I just thought of this when I rode the bus a lot to college. It just struck me that if terrorists can hijack airplanes, what else could they hijack?

“Long Distance Love”There’s probably a better title for this, but as for right now it’s “Long Distance Love”. Basically, this boy, around 19 years old, who has never been with or even kissed a girl, meets this girl online. They decide to meet in person (Hmmm… sound familiar?  To anyone that doesn't know me, I met my current girlfriend online).  When he does things with her, though, such as kissing her or holding her hand, he gets these flashes, like he’s done it before. He gets these feelings that doing those things are really familiar to him. When he questions his parents, they decide to tell him the truth. He had been with a girl before. He had been madly in love. They went to school together. When she broke his heart however and broke up with him, he had tried to commit suicide, which resulted in him losing all of his memories of her (and of his suicide attempt). He had been told that he was in a car accident. Furthermore, he finds out who this girl is that broke his heart, and she later confesses to him that she regrets it more than anything and wants to get back together. So the boy has to choose between this girl he WAS in love with, and the new long-distance girl. Of course, he chooses the new long distance girl. That’s pretty much all I have.

“Body Switcher”
This one high school boy, named Kevin, feels he has a really boring and uneventful life—until one day he realizes he can switch bodies with other people if he concentrates hard enough. He and his friend decide to use this superpower to their own…benefits…by having Kevin switch bodies with certain girls... anyway, they take it too far and have to right their wrongs when it becomes almost impossible for Kevin to switch back. By the way, whenever Kevin switches bodies with someone, he controls their body, but the person he switches with cannot control his. They just enter a state of unconsciousness, and when Kevin switches back, they wake up as if they had fallen asleep.

“Miracle Mustangs”There is a high school football team who has never won anything, but for one year, they have some of the best players in the state. They get to the state playoffs and eventually the championship game. However, before the big game, their coach suffers a heart attack (doesn’t die), but is forced to watch the game from his hospital bed. The Mustangs, meanwhile, play with their assistant coach leading them on. In the first half, they get slaughtered and fall behind 28-7, because the team they're playing is REALLY GOOD. At halftime, their coach calls them and gives them a halftime speech from his hospital bed via the telephone. Then, in the 2^nd half, the Mustangs play inspired football and get to a score of 38-28, but still trailing. After a touchdown by the Mustangs (but a missed PAT), they draw within a score of 38-34. Their defense then provides a HUGE stop and they get the ball back, but with only 30 seconds left. After an incomplete pass, a sack, and a spike of the ball, the Mustangs are faced with a 4^th and eternity from their 12 yard line with 8 seconds left. However, the quarterback finds their star receiver, the fastest player in the country, and he motors and jukes his way for a touchdown, giving the Mustangs the 40-38 win.


There you have it folks. If you read all of this, let me know which story you like the best and which you think would do best as a movie or novel.