Inspiration Overdose: Too many ideas for science fiction, horror, and fantasy stories by Schmidt D.N

Author:Schmidt, D.N. [Schmidt, D.N.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-10-23T16:00:00+00:00

Part X: Super human Abilities

Flight

No Magic Carpet? How About A Flight of Stairs ?

The police search for a talented vandal with the ability to spray graffiti seemingly anywhere, no matter how high or hard to reach. After several months, they finally see the vandal spraying his tag while clinging to the wall of a skyscraper. Before they can get up the stairs to catch him, he flies away.

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The circus is crowded, nearly full to capacity. A beautiful trapeze artist attempts a dangerous stunt without a net. She loses her grip and begins to fall. She rips off her cape and extends her wings, gliding to the ground. The audience screams while she breaks down in tears. Her secret is out.

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A young girl returns home from meditation class. When her mom asks how it was, she says, “I was so embarrassed! I was the only one who couldn’t relax enough to levitate!”

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An atheist finds it difficult to maintain her lack of faith when she sprouts wings like an angel.

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A man falls in love with a winged alien who invites him to come live with her on her home planet. Life is hard as one of the world’s only non-flying people. The other aliens are annoyed at having to accommodate his inability to fly, and some even openly mock him for his “disability”.

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A small child learns how to fly. His parents struggle to make him behave. How can you make a child stand in the corner when they’re on the ceiling?

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Every time something cool happens to me, something lame happens to balance it out. Aliens are real, but they’re mired in a centuries-long war. Aliens give me super powers to defend the earth, but Mom grounds me so I can’t leave the house. I can fly, but the girls at school still think I’m a big dork.

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A cult leader promises his followers will be able to fly. An undercover cop investigating the new religion is shocked to discover that it actually works.

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A woman discovers that her tattooed angel wings work just as well as the real thing. She heads back to the tattoo studio to see what other special abilities she can have added to her body.

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A man jumps from the top of a skyscraper, attempting to kill himself. On the way down, he changes his mind, and discovers the ability to fly.

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A genetic mutation on the Y chromosome causes all males to be born with wings.

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A toy company markets a new product: a superhero cape that lets children actually fly. Parent groups across the country lobby for the dangerous toy to be banned.

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A sailor becomes stranded on a desert island where the only animals big enough to eat are birds. He tries throwing rocks and building traps, but can’t seem to kill one. Starving, the sailor wishes he could fly, and simply pluck birds out of the air…

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The captain of a small spacecraft crashes on a distant, wilderness-covered planet. Her prosthetic legs are destroyed in the accident, and the ship’s anti-gravity drive is badly damaged.

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