This Thanksgiving, Im thankful for this story idea that came to me last night in a dream: A young child feels neglected by his father, whos obsessed with keeping an eye on the recent bullish trends in the stock market. He write a letter to Wall Street, asking them to make the stock prices stop rising for a day so he could play baseball with his father. The very next day, the Stock Market Crash of 1929 happens, and the child comes home to find that his father had hanged himself. The child dedicates his life to making money, believing that his father would come back if he could bring his net worth to over five million dollars. Thirty years later, the child had met his goal, but his life is still filled with existential angst, and his past comes back to haunt him as people who died during the Great Depression come back as zombies and stalk across the streets.... I really feel like I could make it big with this one. I mean, it does combine all the important American values that are important in a bestseller, like baseball, zombies, angst, and rich people.
Posted on: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 17:26:42 +0000
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