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I may or may not have stolen from our friends in Science Fiction/Fantasy.

Rules: Give a short plot description/summary for a story idea, then wait for the titles to roll in. This is more for fun than getting your work titled, though you never know.

(And I don't just say that because my titles suck and I totally plan to jot down the good ones. Nope. No way.)

I'll kick us off (with a badly written half-baked notion *cough*):

Torn from their group of roving space thieves, Leire and her mother crash land on an uncharted planet. An uncharted planet that is none too fond of outsiders. Their only saving grace is that Leire is the right age and looks to stand in for the ruling monarch’s long lost daughter. The choice before her is life imprisonment or the galaxy’s biggest attempt at identity theft.​
 

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Lol!

No one escapes the island of trolls -- No one except Demarca Bruins. Raised underground as a fresh water slave, Demarca has dreamed of fresh air and a dirt-free existence. When her trail of great work gives her a chance to fetch water for the King of Trolls, she seizes her chance of freedom. But the King has fallen for Demarca, and he will have her back with him if he has to burn the entire world to do it.
 

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The Princess and the (Space) Pirate: A Story of Fabulous Royalty, Mistaken Identity, Alien Planets and Rayguns.

Heartchipper!

(Because trolls are stone...stone heart...chipping hearts...it makes sense in my brain)

For her whole life, Lucithana Knife has wanted to join the Fairy Watch: The elite cadre of men and women who defend the boarders of the world from the seemingly endless armies of the shape-shifting, soul eating, superhumanly skilled Fair Folk. And now she - along with the pocket sized wizard Boolian and the hapless thief Jayq the Hedgehog (the q is silent) - has attained her goal.

Unfortunately, two days into training, the Fair Folk unleash a weapon two centuries in the making: A massive army of building sized giant monsters called Kaiju, who are capable of devouring reality itself and are immune to every magical weapon that the Fairy Watch can throw at it...
 

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ETA: Misunderstood the rules the first time! Sorry! Here are the others:

1. A Noble Deception

2. Fleeing Towards Daylight

3. The Bigger Fae Are

*digs through idea notebook*

Wes Brisbane has lived his whole life in a haunted house and it's never bothered him, so when he wakes up one morning to the uncharacteristic sound of total quiet, he embarks on an investigation to find out where, exactly, all his missing ghosts went.
 
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Wes Brisbane has lived his whole life in a haunted house and it's never bothered him, so when he wakes up one morning to the uncharacteristic sound of total quiet, he embarks on an investigation to find out where, exactly, all his missing ghosts went.

Silent Like the Dead

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4 girls go to a magical boarding school to learn magic based on the periodic elements.

Fashionable Morgan is certain she's a precious metal, but upon finding out she's actually titanium, she has to deal with being merely bulletproof.

Sasha gets misclassified as a gas, just like her hydrogen-powered boyfriend. When she finds out she's gallium, not only must she keep up the pretense that she's a gas, but she also has to keep from melting every time he tries to hold her hand.

Alicia really is a gas--neon, and just like the noble gas, she has no desire to play well with others, but when Sasha asks her to help research non-gas elements, she involves herself with Sasha's life, looking into the mystery of how she got into gas class in the first place. With pressure from Alicia's sleuthing and help from dissatisfied Morgan, Sasha might go to alchemal lengths to become the gas she's pretending to be.

And then there's bubbly Trix, a carbon who bonds with all of them and brings them together. But she's most interested in Joel, who's convinced he's mercury and therefore poison. But Trix isn't the only carbon girl who's interested in Joel, and she'll lose him to his darker nature if the other girl and her nitrogen minions form a bond with him.
 

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4 girls go to a magical boarding school to learn magic based on the periodic elements.

Fashionable Morgan is certain she's a precious metal, but upon finding out she's actually titanium, she has to deal with being merely bulletproof.

Sasha gets misclassified as a gas, just like her hydrogen-powered boyfriend. When she finds out she's gallium, not only must she keep up the pretense that she's a gas, but she also has to keep from melting every time he tries to hold her hand.

Alicia really is a gas--neon, and just like the noble gas, she has no desire to play well with others, but when Sasha asks her to help research non-gas elements, she involves herself with Sasha's life, looking into the mystery of how she got into gas class in the first place. With pressure from Alicia's sleuthing and help from dissatisfied Morgan, Sasha might go to alchemal lengths to become the gas she's pretending to be.

And then there's bubbly Trix, a carbon who bonds with all of them and brings them together. But she's most interested in Joel, who's convinced he's mercury and therefore poison. But Trix isn't the only carbon girl who's interested in Joel, and she'll lose him to his darker nature if the other girl and her nitrogen minions form a bond with him.

Chemical Reaction
or
CuTe Chemistry
Or something a little like Big Bang Theory cause I could see fans of that liking this (it sounds awesome)

I really don't have a blurb ready for this so I'll just wing it (all working names as well):

Marissa's childhood best friend, Marwan aka Mark, is accused of planning and executing terrorist attack in D.C that kills 4 people and is on the run from the police. Marissa will have to figure out if she believes him guilty and how much she'd be willing to risk to help the boy she used to climb trees with. And she better figure it out quick... because he's calling her for help.
 

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Marissa's childhood best friend, Marwan aka Mark, is accused of planning and executing terrorist attack in D.C that kills 4 people and is on the run from the police. Marissa will have to figure out if she believes him guilty and how much she'd be willing to risk to help the boy she used to climb trees with. And she better figure it out quick... because he's calling her for help.

Guilty Until Proven Innocent

Marked for Terror

The Execution

The Terrorist

Homeland Security

(I peeked at the SFF thread, and it looks like multiple titles are cool for this game
 
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Guilty Until Proven Innocent

Marked for Terror

The Execution

The Terrorist

Homeland Security

(I peeked at the SFF thread, and it looks like multiple titles are cool for this game

That's good, I feel like more than one option is better anyway :)
 

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After being cruelly killed by an uprising gang, meek high school junior Nino Lopez wakes up the next day alive but certainly not well. Mortedeus, a death god tied to Nino's ancestry, allowed supernatural ants to bury into his body to resurrect the teen as a revenant but only for a limited time. With the army of hellish ants gradually eating away at his soul, can Nino find those responsible for his death before his second chance at life runs out?
 

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The Ants Go Marching

Oops, There Goes Another Rubber Tree Plant
 
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Chemical Reaction
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Or something a little like Big Bang Theory cause I could see fans of that liking this (it sounds awesome)

I really don't have a blurb ready for this so I'll just wing it (all working names as well):

Marissa's childhood best friend, Marwan aka Mark, is accused of planning and executing terrorist attack in D.C that kills 4 people and is on the run from the police. Marissa will have to figure out if she believes him guilty and how much she'd be willing to risk to help the boy she used to climb trees with. And she better figure it out quick... because he's calling her for help.


When the Trees Fall

Risk of Belief

The Capital Four


A swarm of soul-eating demons are loose in Chicago, and the only one who can stop them from destroying mankind is 16 year old half-demon Rich Hayes, born in Hades and trained on earth to defeat his darker sided brethren.
 

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A swarm of soul-eating demons are loose in Chicago, and the only one who can stop them from destroying mankind is 16 year old half-demon Rich Hayes, born in Hades and trained on earth to defeat his darker sided brethren.

Welcome To The Dark Side

The Demon You Know

(I suck at titles, sorry!)


Here's mine:

16-yr-old Laila is one of the ruling clique at her small high school, a position and friendship group she clings to as her newly-adopted parents paint the nursery and choose baby names for their miracle - the baby that is bound to be her replacement.
So when her shy, devoted best friend accidentally hits her boyfriend with her car, sending him into a coma, Laila gives her an alibi to protect her and ensure her own place in her best friend's heart. When the baby's born, Noelle will be all she's got.
But when a local boy becomes a suspect for the hit and run - and a target for the whole town's intimidation and mob judgement - Laila has to decide if she should protect her friend and potentially send an innocent person to prison, or save the boy who she never liked much anyway, and in doing so, maybe give her adoptive parents the excuse they need to kick her out.
 

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A swarm of soul-eating demons are loose in Chicago, and the only one who can stop them from destroying mankind is 16 year old half-demon Rich Hayes, born in Hades and trained on earth to defeat his darker sided brethren.
The Soul Keeper

Poor Rich

Richly Deserved

16-yr-old Laila is one of the ruling clique at her small high school, a position and friendship group she clings to as her newly-adopted parents paint the nursery and choose baby names for their miracle - the baby that is bound to be her replacement.

So when her shy, devoted best friend accidentally hits her boyfriend with her car, sending him into a coma, Laila gives her an alibi to protect her and ensure her own place in her best friend's heart. When the baby's born, Noelle will be all she's got.

But when a local boy becomes a suspect for the hit and run - and a target for the whole town's intimidation and mob judgement - Laila has to decide if she should protect her friend and potentially send an innocent person to prison, or save the boy who she never liked much anyway, and in doing so, maybe give her adoptive parents the excuse they need to kick her out.

What I Did for Family

Alibi
 

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16-yr-old Laila is one of the ruling clique at her small high school, a position and friendship group she clings to as her newly-adopted parents paint the nursery and choose baby names for their miracle - the baby that is bound to be her replacement.
So when her shy, devoted best friend accidentally hits her boyfriend with her car, sending him into a coma, Laila gives her an alibi to protect her and ensure her own place in her best friend's heart. When the baby's born, Noelle will be all she's got.
But when a local boy becomes a suspect for the hit and run - and a target for the whole town's intimidation and mob judgement - Laila has to decide if she should protect her friend and potentially send an innocent person to prison, or save the boy who she never liked much anyway, and in doing so, maybe give her adoptive parents the excuse they need to kick her out.

The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
 

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- The Family Walls?
- Blood Family

Oh god, I'm so bad at titles, both myself and other people's, but I'm just interested:

Bridget builds a dollhouse replica of her dad’s rotten childhood home at the time of her grandfather’s Satanic murder thirty years ago. Finding the pieces lead Bridget to a disease on the land, and her family's part in a cult plotting a future massacre.
 
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Bridget builds a dollhouse replica of her dad’s rotten childhood home at the time of her grandfather’s Satanic murder thirty years ago. Finding the pieces lead Bridget to a disease on the land, and her family's part in a cult plotting a future massacre.

Child's Play
Rites and Replicas
Rebuilding the Past
In Miniature
 

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Bridget builds a dollhouse replica of her dad’s rotten childhood home at the time of her grandfather’s Satanic murder thirty years ago. Finding the pieces lead Bridget to a disease on the land, and her family's part in a cult plotting a future massacre.

Sins of the Father

Blood of my Blood

The Lord's Devil's Work
 

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Lady A:
Bridget builds a dollhouse replica of her dad’s rotten childhood home at the time of her grandfather’s Satanic murder thirty years ago. Finding the pieces lead Bridget to a disease on the land, and her family's part in a cult plotting a future massacre.

Brick By Bloody Brick
Knocking on The Devil's Door
 

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When James "Jimmy" Hoole is arrested for high treason against the United States government, he expected to be shipped to Gitmo. Instead, he is taken aside and told the terrifying truth: Since 1998, an alliance of NATO nations, Russia and China have been fighting a secret war against a massive empire of naturally psychic aliens called the Doyen - a war that must be kept secret, lest the collected psychic shockwave of humanity realizing a war is on draw the Doyen to Earth to destroy it. Humanity's only defense is the Pan-National Telepathic Defense Force - a coalition of human psychics who are trained in the operation of egobots: Psychically powered space born mechanized combat suits.

Jimmy is a latent psychic. He has a choice: PANT-DF or Gitmo. He chooses defense...but after he is captured by enemy forces, he finds himself with an unlikely ally: A haughty and beautiful Doyen Princess who wishes to defect. With the two together, might they have a chance at finally turning the tables in a war that humanity seems bound to lose?
 

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When James "Jimmy" Hoole is arrested for high treason against the United States government, he expected to be shipped to Gitmo. Instead, he is taken aside and told the terrifying truth: Since 1998, an alliance of NATO nations, Russia and China have been fighting a secret war against a massive empire of naturally psychic aliens called the Doyen - a war that must be kept secret, lest the collected psychic shockwave of humanity realizing a war is on draw the Doyen to Earth to destroy it. Humanity's only defense is the Pan-National Telepathic Defense Force - a coalition of human psychics who are trained in the operation of egobots: Psychically powered space born mechanized combat suits.

Jimmy is a latent psychic. He has a choice: PANT-DF or Gitmo. He chooses defense...but after he is captured by enemy forces, he finds himself with an unlikely ally: A haughty and beautiful Doyen Princess who wishes to defect. With the two together, might they have a chance at finally turning the tables in a war that humanity seems bound to lose?

Seeing Is Believing

An Uncharted Future

Among Us
 

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Bridget builds a dollhouse replica of her dad’s rotten childhood home at the time of her grandfather’s Satanic murder thirty years ago. Finding the pieces lead Bridget to a disease on the land, and her family's part in a cult plotting a future massacre.

Miniatures

Edge of the Knife

Forward Looking Back
 

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Seventeen year old Salem,MA resident Selene Waters has been dreaming about an old house out in the woods for months. Drawn to the place by some unseen force, she disturbs something that's been waiting centuries for it's revenge against her.

People that Selene knows are dying, drained of their blood. The teen goes into the woods one last time to meet the vampire, only one of them will survive until dawn.
 
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Seventeen year old Salem,MA resident Selene Waters has been dreaming about an old house out in the woods for months. Drawn to the place by some unseen force, she disturbs something that's been waiting centuries for it's revenge against her.

People that Selene knows are dying, drained of their blood. The teen goes into the woods one last time to meet the vampire, only one of them will survive until dawn.

Bloodwater

The Crimson Forest

Salem Blood Trials
 

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Jack Frost has fallen in love with Flora, the daughter of Mother Nature. Desperate to be with each other, the two of them spend every moment together, at least those when Jack's not enlisted by his dad to work the family business: snow and ice.

But Flora's destined to take over for her mother, and that means she has to know more than just frost. Mother Nature sends her to live with humans for four years--one in sun, one in snow, one in rain, and one in wind.

Four (or even three) years without Flora seem like an eternity to Jack. Even though temperatures above 40 degrees make him sick, he does what no Frost before him has ever done. He goes to live with the humans.

Starting in sunny San Diego.
 

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Jack Frost has fallen in love with Flora, the daughter of Mother Nature. Desperate to be with each other, the two of them spend every moment together, at least those when Jack's not enlisted by his dad to work the family business: snow and ice.

But Flora's destined to take over for her mother, and that means she has to know more than just frost. Mother Nature sends her to live with humans for four years--one in sun, one in snow, one in rain, and one in wind.

Four (or even three) years without Flora seem like an eternity to Jack. Even though temperatures above 40 degrees make him sick, he does what no Frost before him has ever done. He goes to live with the humans.

Starting in sunny San Diego.


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