i could write a bestseller if i could just come up with an idea

by nick nelson

a serial killer and a homicide detective team up to defeat an invasion of earth by oyster creatures from another dimension. * autistic identical twins, one black and male and the other asian and female, discover a plot to farm humans for sale to a race of carnivores being developed in a lab at the center of the earth. * an ex-commando, unjustly imprisoned for desertion, escapes and solves a two thousand year old cold case. * three sisters, one straight, one gay, and one non-binary, live through a century of galactic upheaval. * a pizza delivery person, left for dead after being hit and run by the president of the united states, develops psychic powers and thwarts a plot by the white house to sell the united states to china. * a hit woman is hired by the seventh richest man in the world to kill the six richest. * a homeless person has a dream in which they are told by a nameless formless creature to warn the human race of an incomprehensible coming disaster. * a man works for twenty-seven years bagging groceries at a supermarket at a suburban mall. the supermarket chain shuts down and he decides to travel from town to town solving crimes and bringing bad people to justice. * only one straight white man is left on earth. he is given a choice between being sent to solitary banishment on a distant asteroid or settling an old score for the empress of the planet. * a single mother with seven children, laid off her job at a fast food restaurant, is visited by a mysterious stranger who wants to raise the seven children on a desert island for his own purposes. *. a mysterious virus spreads though the united states changing right wing brains to left wing brains and vice versa. only one person, a tv reporter who had been exploring a cave at the center of the earth, is spared. * a series of 20 contests is held throughout earth. the twenty winners will board a spaceship attempting to find a new planet for the doomed human race. * a private eye in san francisco in 1934 is hired to solve a murder that took place in atlantis in the year 10785 b c. * a drifter returns to his home town after thirty years. unbeknown to the town’s inhabitants, he has learned superpowers from a yeti shaman in mongolia. * a school bus is forced off the road and down a mountainside by a driver who is not found. a teacher and sixteen of the seventeen children on board are killed, and the seventeenth lies in a coma for fifteen years. when she awakes, she resolves to find the guilty driver. * a retired homicide detective is transported to a distant planet, where not only is murder legal, but all citizens are required to kill at least one person every ten years. * a young standup comic meets a girl on a deserted beach. he falls in love with her and discovers she is a witch who has been alive for 200,000 years. * with her mother needing millions for a rare operation, a young autistic girl plots to rob her employer - the world’s largest fast food conglomerate. * facing death from a rare disease, a man resolves to track down and kill every person who has ever laughed at him. * a young neanderthal, the last of his tribe, is torn between a desire to avenge his kin on the human race, or found a new religion based on peace and love. * a young screenwriter, unable to sell his scripts, decides to assassinate a world leader, in order to gain the experience and insight to write a blockbuster. * a young man and woman fall in love. a mysterious being appears to them and tells them they can live forever, as long as they remain faithful to each other. * identical twins are separated at birth. one becomes a serial killer and the other a homicide detective and they match wits. * a 12 year old girl develops the ultimate weapon and threatens to destroy the galaxy if her demands are not met. special agent x-3 clones the girl’s dead puppy and plants a human brain in it. * a drifter passed through town. all the inhabitants remember him from their different past lives. * the last person left on earth is picked up by a passing alien ship. they are given a choice between becoming a gladiator who can win the crown of the alien kingdom against dozen competitors, or becoming an immortal love slave.