short story idea?

Question

Paris, Rome, London, and Madrid Dissapear in nuclear fire. The world is shocked in terror at the fear that its only the beggining. But no one comes forward claiming the attacks. There are no leads as to how or why it happened.
However a space shuttle mission discoveres something very distrubing. A sattelite (kind of like Space Cowboys) is full of nuclear weapons built by the Soviet Union and hidden in the Cold War. And its malfunctioning. Now there are 6 more missiles on it and anything done wrong could launch them. No one knows their targets.


But, (and this was something i came up with later) is it a malfunction? or the work of a mad man.

i cant imagine it being very long. The mad man is in fact a russian missile tech. and they have to get to him (once we learn the truth) before he can nuke 6 more major cities.

Answer 1

sounds interesting. go with it.

Answer 2

It is the work of a madman who has figured out a way to crack the code to make it look like a malfunction.

How many more cities must be destroyed until the code is broken?

There's a great idea there, but NOT a short story. Go for the works!

Answer 3

Why not attempt to comprise each and each of the thoughts in those solutions!? so that you've were given zombie-hunters, vampires, a guy looking an mind's eye lower than a rock, laser-eye surgical operation and a creepy postman. i am going to throw in a porcupine. Whoah - i ought to study it!!

Answer 4

wayyyy too predictable. While it may be an original idea (and not a bad one) it ends up falling into the usual traps. Will they or won't they catch him in time before it's too late? That general idea has been done to death. There's nothign surprising in that. If you write it, try to take the story somewhere nobody expects.

Answer 5

Ur question reminds me of my school and college days when we were assigned by the teachers to write short stories on different topics. Sometimes it could be written successfully and sometimes we had to seek the help of seniors, elders and teachers. These days Internet is rich source of information. Internet was not available at my time. So it was a very time consuming job to look for the relevant source for writing story. I suggest u to visit the following links. Here u will not only find short stories on different topics but u will also find tips of how to write good story and be a good story writer too if u wish to be. U shall be able to meet ur requirement if u surf these links thoroughly and consciously.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_story
http://www.shortstorygroup.com/
http://titan.iwu.edu/~jplath/sschron.html
http://www.geocities.com/short_stories_page/
http://www.short-stories.co.uk/
http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1983/3/83.03.09.x.html
http://www.storybytes.com/
http://www.shortstorygroup.com/storytips.htm
http://www.fdg.aranea.de/faecher/ZK_Arb_Englisch/seite7.htm
http://www.shortshortshort.com/
http://www.memoware.com/?screen=search_results&DirectSearch=Y&p=category^!Short~!
http://www.eternalnight.co.uk/short/r/reynoldsalastair.html
Please visit the above links. I hope, it helps u.

Answer 6

That's a very Hollywood-like-movie. Yous should write a feature length screenplay.

Answer 7

Mad man because we like destruction, it's a continual thing in the world.

Answer 8

Cool! It sounds like it could be really intense. Definitly enough material for a novel if you have the stamina. I could almost see it being a movie. Good luck.

Answer 9

Sounds fascinating. I wonder why you chose to make it a short story. I think it has novel potential.

Answer 10

i think that it should be the work of a mad man