The Title Game

This game has been stolen and man-handled on many a site, and now it makes its first appearance on Zelda Universe, to inspire our aspiring writers to new levels of greatness!

Quick run of the rules:

First someone gives a title of a non-existent story and the next person replies as if they had written it, describing what it was about and what it was like. Things to include could be plot summary, characters, why the story rocked your socks or why it just wouldn't work.

The second person then provides another story title and so on and so on...

To get you started:

'Roses of Winter'

This is a really cool creativity experiment. I urge you guys to participate. I'll go first.

Roses of Winter is about a family struggling to cope after a nuclear fallout. There's a notable dent in the Earth's population, but the majority of everything is intact. The ground and skies are gray from debris floating around, falling like snow. Even though the damage is minimal for a war of this scale, everyone panics. There's looting, riots, a massive public outcry. The family Somerset's (focus of the story) youngest daughter is ill, but the hospitals are full. The plot centers around her father's and older brother's attempts to smuggle her into medical care, while mom takes care of her with help from another neighborhood family who's lost their dad/husband.

Next title: "The Cornerstone"

The Cornerstone: The setting of this story is fantasy, but has a little bit of technology in it. People have guns, for example. There are four people in this world. They are the last people on the planet. All of them are slowly dieing due to a disease that spread that killed all of the humans. The disease was spread due to discoveries in science that went haywire. This disease spread to other animals, and even plants. The animals and plants did not get it as bad as the humans, because of the humans being needy and not having fur. If somebody with the disease has a baby that baby will have the disease. It's sort of like AIDs. Legends say that in a land, far away, there is a being who has been in slumber for as long as they can remember. This being is called The Cornerstone. This being can do anything. This being is a god. The Cornerstone can only be awakened for a dire reason. It has to be very important, or it won't be awakened. The people go on their quest slowly dieing to awaken The Cornerstone, so the disease can be destroyed. They die doing it, but awaken The Cornerstone. When The Cornerstone is awakened, it is merely just born and is a human. That baby would grow to bring back the world to it's prosperity.

The Wings of God.

The Wings of God: In Buffalo, New York, two brothers run a church together. One day, the big, bad economic situation of that terrible city causes them to have to either sell the church and its property or eventually lose all their money. Like the smart people they are, they chose the first option. Fueled by the proceeds of their church and guided by God, they set out to trek the United States of America in search for the world's best chicken wings.

Next title: "Space Party".

Space Party: The year is 2444. Man has recently established a fully self-sustaning colony on mars. There is to be a huge celebration to commerate this historic event. It is a bright day for the future of mankind...or so they think. The story focuses around an ordinary family a young man and wife and 2 children who had to move to the colony on mars for work. Aliens attack on the day of the celebration and the story follows the family and how this sudden uphevel of their life and the human discovery of other life in our solar system affects them.

Title: No Where, Now Here.

No Where, Now Here: This story takes place in the middle ages at the height of the crusades. The story follows a young templar knight looking to make a name for himself, but in the heat of battle he loses his nerve and abandons his post. Because of him the knights he was traveling with are over run and only the young knight and his commander survive. Despite his rage at the young knight the commander gives the young man a choice, return home and be executed as a deserter or run. The young knight chooses to run and must now try to find a place for himself among the people he once called his enemies.

Title: The End Game

When I started writing 'The End Game' I imagined humankind being on the brink of destruction thanks to the zombie uprising. Following a high school fotball team, I tried to work on their feelings of despair as they prepared for the last fight against the surrounding ghouls. The main characters seemed a bit bland though, and I think I got a bit too focused on researching American high school systems instead of actually writing. Then I just forgot about the piece for about a year, and when I returned to it, football players just seemed lame to write about. Just not my kind of story, y'know? I did like the part about the peanut selling zombie though. Might just keep him.

New story: The man in the black coat

The Man in the Black Coat:

It was my most difficult book, not because of the size or scope of the story, but because of my inexperience with true politics… and because of my age. I had no real way of telling what it was like in holding such a high position in the federal government or what it was like to have that kind of power. It took me almost a year to finish, a year that was full of rewrites and writer’s blocks. In the end though, it is still my greatest masterpiece. A book of conspiracies both for good and evil. And it poses the ultimate question: when does the greater good become too great and not enough good?

New Story: Boiling Point

Boiling Point One day a chef is cooking a meal. The water in a pot boils over. The End.

The Zero of Time

The Zero of Time: This was my first attempt at a parody and I have to say it wasn’t very successful. The idea sounded great in my head, take the usual “Hero” archetype and twist it so the hero of the story becomes this introverted nervous quirky character who saves the world from the overly confident and horribly unintelligent villain. The final twist would be that no one believes the hero’s story and instead gives the credit to his cowardly yet incredibly attractive sidekick. But I’m not a comedian so the jokes were lame and the whole thing came across as very shallow and cliché. I still like the idea and may revisit it in the future, but for now I’m just going to walk away.


What on Earth?

My latest novelette, entitled 'What on Earth?' is a revolutionary novel written in second person, where you the reader are the main character. The events are described as you experience them, and while this book shuns second-person novelties such as 'choose your own adventure' stories, it does have a lickable page in the back that tastes like coconut cream pie. As the main character, you are thrust into a new life of an Asian housewife living in rural Kentucky. You are faced with emotional trauma, as well as irreversable internal acne. But, have faith, for later in the book, you find true love. And you get to lick the pie page.

New Story: Pants for Hire

Pants for Hire: This is a remarkable story in the tradition of The Da Vinci Code and Animal House. There is a secret that has been passed down through the ages, guarded by secret sects of frat houses throughout the world. There is a pair of pants that when worn will grant the wearer infinite charm. The pants are offered for hire by a mysterious, ageless, wandering pants salesman. Just who wore these pants in the past and what will the sects do to keep their existence a secret while still trying to party and brind down the crusty Dean? A tense thriller married with a sexy comedy, the helicopter chase with our hero and protagonist sword fighting beneath them while each hanging on to a rope made out of women's undergarments is unforgettable.

New story: The Pusillanimitous Cogitations of the Phrenologist's Obloquy

The Pusillanimitous Cogitations of the Phrenologist's Obloquy A hansom lad named Trevor goes on an adventure to find out what The Pusillanimitous Cogitations of the Phrenologist's Obloquy means.

Dgbvbvbcvcfgb
^This should be interesting.

Dgbvbvbcvcfgb is a story center in the year 6969, the evil alian Empress Tarhar, has come to enslave humanity, who by this time have computer chips inside their brains. The empress put out a virus hidden inside a video game, that people down load inside their heads. People are dyin off left and right, then the hero Taha. He discovers the code 'Dgbvbvbcvcfgb' written on a rock inside the game. Believin it to be important he takes it to an elder who is shocked by seein the message, this is the same message that 'The Gods' sent in a profecy bout the apocalypse. Taha, then must go on a quest to prevent the apocalypse and save the world from Tarhar.

Next one: I gotta Give Myself.

I Gotta Give Myself: I've had this title stuck in my head for a couple of years now, but every time I try to start it I get a major writer's block. What I do know about the story is that a girl name Carol is burned out in her career. Maybe if I give myself more time I'll eventually get this out of my head.


Title: Home, Bitter Home

Home, Bitter Home is a romantic drama taking place in the late 1930's during World War II. Robert Miles, only 19 at the begining of the novel, is drafted into the war to fight for the Allies against the Axist. While in the war, the only thing keeping him sane is the dream of him comming back to his wife to be, Anna Grapes. He fequently writes her letters telling her how the war is nothing when he comes back to love her. After the war is over, Miles returns home to find that Anna is dead from a heart attack, and is forced to face the anguish of reality.

Upon the Moonlight's Sun

This is getting interesting.

Upon the Moonlight's Sun: This one came to me when I was looking at the sun, and saw the outline of the moon. It's about present day Earth. A rare, massive comet passed by at a speed slower than usual, thus pulling the moon with it. We watched the moon slowly gain speed and crumble under the heat of the moon. Before it dissipated, the glow of the gray, glorious mass enlightened all—beauty before destruction.

The Giant Kitty.

The Giant Kitty - A heart warming story about a young boy Jimmy Harper Who was born with a small heart. Hospitalized for most of his life the doctors take him to his home. the first second he walked in the family's fat kitty jumped on him and he had a smile that made them all cry.
He loved The Giant kitty. (terrible i know)

Dark side of the Farm

Dark side of the Farm

When Karen died, Jack went mad. Literally. It began with small things, like chickens dying, or cows falling ill, but soon it evolved. He became increasingly homicidal until he finally snapped.

Mayor Thomas was found dead, with his head lopped off, left for the carrion in the Town Square. Follow his son, Harris the policeman, in this epic mystery narrative, as he hunts down the unknown killer of his father and dances with death in this plot of the century. Will he discover that his former friend killed his father in time, or will it be too late for Mineral Town?

CHAMPION, CHARLESTON, EQUESTRIAN EXTRODINARE.

Champion, Charleston, Equestrian Extraordinaire: It was July, 1957. The rain had poured for three days, and the racing track was muddy. Jones's horse, in the lead, misstepped and slid fifteen feet. The racehorse had been removed from the season's following races.

Finally, after a year, Jones's was assigned the third stall, and the sky was sunny and clear. The races this year took place in Charleston, South Carolina. If nothing stood in his way, Jones would definitely win with his trusty stead. The race was the last—deciding the ultimate title of Equestrian Extraordinaire, a legendary status given to the champions of the Summer Races in the States.