Men, Mice and Whiskey

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A man has been ordered to pay more than $32,000 in back child support after being lured back to Pennsylvania with the promise of a bogus role in a Jennifer Aniston movie.

First, I am dying to see what this guy looks like and to know if he is really an actor or if he just thought he was that good . As  a plot, I could see a female bounty hunter trying to prove herself by bringing in a big case. What could you do with this? 

 

Couple tries to visit Disneyland every day for a year

Both were unemployed and decided to use their season passes to "put a smile on our faces instead of sitting at home and being bummed out about being out of work." 

This kind of fascinated me. The conflict of dealing with unemployment (or a disintegrating  marriage~which was what came to my mind) in the "Happiest Place on  Earth" could make for some interesting twists. 

To save money on the installation of central air-conditioning in his St. Joseph, Mo., home, Bryan Fite began replacing the wires in his attic, prying up the floor boards on the rafters. Along with possible savings, he found a treasure beneath the floorboards: 13 bottles of century-old whiskey.

Oh, the places this one could go. Imagine a time-travel, what if he had put the whiskey there himself when he went to the past so he could find it in the future and know the experience was real? Is your head spinning yet? 

Or the beginning of a dual timeline story. The man finds the liquor and his life parallels the life of the man who put it there. 

 

These are my swaps for today. What'd you bring to trade? 

 

Friday Plot Swap~ It's a Jungle Out There!

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Let's visit our friends in the animal kingdom.

 

 

The world's oldest animal marriage looks set to have turtley ended after an incredible 115 years when the two Giant Turtles at an Austrian  zoo refused to share their cage anymore.

Does anyone else see a contemporary romance in the making here? If you read the article, you will see they have called in all sorts of experts to "save" this marriage. 

Maybe an animal therapist must team up with a cynical caretaker to save a dying species?  

 

 

 

An Iowa man was charged with drunk driving after attempting to leave a bar with his pet zebra and parrot in the front of his truck.

So many ideas...

 

Although they admire their pets' instincts and abilities, professional psychics doubt the reliability of psychic animals' predictions regarding results of the Euro 2012 soccer tournament.

First of all, I had NO idea there were so many "psychic" animals used to predict sporting outcomes. Octopus, ferrets, pigs, raccoons... Wow. 

What interested me about this article is that it is human psychics pshawing the abilities of the animals. What if a psychic (or not-so-psychic) human was pitted against one of these animals? What if both of their lives depended on the outcome?

 

And  a bonus for you, since I know you all missed our plot swap last week. 

 

Famed light bulb eater accused of being bank robber

 Um, What????????????

 

So, swap with me! Got any good animal stories? Or eater-of-household-products-turned-felon stories? 

Or just an orphaned plot you think deserves a good home? 

 

 

Photos, Oh-No, and WHOA!

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Happy Friday!

 

A random garage sale purchase surprises a 13-year-old with a picture of a relative he had never known.

So many different ways you could go with this one!

 Time travel: 

The uncle was sending him a message and the camera is really a portal.

Romantic Suspense:

The mother of the 13 year old sees the picture and realizes the girl in the picture is really a powerful person's wife who died under mysterious circumstances, just like her brother. 

You can also check out a past post about weird coincidences here.  

   A Dallas woman has found Neiman Marcus' generous return policy lacking, saying the luxury retailer wouldn't let her return $1.4 million worth of tainted items— many of them gifts her husband purchased from a store employee with whom he was allegedly having an affair.

If this is my story, the personal assistant is totally winding up dead and the wife wrongfully accused, but that's just me. (And, fiction! I wish no ill-will toward this random store employee!)

Virginia Hopkins is a great waitress and she's used to getting great tips. But the one she got from her Uncle Sam on Tuesday nearly knocked her to the floor.

Virginia is owed a tax refund of $754, for which she has been waiting eagerly. But the check she opened was for more. A lot more: $434,712.

This lady has class and spunk. She would make an awesome secondary character! 

SO, SWAP WITH ME!

What could you make out of these? 

What's going on in your WIP? 

Heard any good plots lately?   

 

Friday Plot Swap~ Unexplained Death Style

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As a mystery writer, I found all of these irresistible this week. My brain (which should be editing) is coming up with so many new, shiny ideas.
What could you do with them? 

 

 

The mystery began with a heart attack, a man with a past, and a bag of money that federal authorities now want to keep.  

A man with $180,000 in a bag, a history of bank robberies and mafia connections stepped off a train in NYC and died. How many different ways could that go? There is even a quote from his straight-laced, embarrassed son. Hello, wounded hero with shadowy heritage!

Construction workers renovating a former Indianapolis funeral home were shocked to find a corpse left behind in a casket.

CREEPY!

And, my personal favorite: 

 

 

British spy found dead in sports bag was 'probably killed unlawfully,' coroner says

DUH! The man was found in a duffle bag with a padlock on it! Think he was playing Houdini? Of course, the added information that several thousand dollars of women's clothing was also in his apartment adds a nice little twist.

So, swap with me! What could you do with these? What's been floating around in your imaginary world lately?

Hugs, Goodwill and Men in the Shower

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An Atlanta couple's dreams of the perfect wedding could be in tatters after the would-be groom accidentally gave the engagement ring to Goodwill.
So many ways to go with this! What does the Groom-to-be say to his fiance? What if she isn't "the one" but the sweet girl working at Goodwill who finds the ring and searches him out to return it is? 



 Coca-Cola's global marketing campaign dubbed "Open Happiness" takes on a new twist with a Coke vending machine that asks passers by to give it a hug.

This is just weird. Don't know exactly what you could do with it as a plot, but I couldn't resist including it. 

 

A burglary suspect was caught when a resident returned home to find him relaxing in the shower

Yeah, I know. It's pretty doubtful he looked like this. But, what if he wasn't a yucky burglar. When you take the creepiness out of it, there's lot that can be done with finding a man in your shower who has already helped himself to some champagne.

So, swap with me! Read any good plots lately?