Ideas that Need Homes

Over the years, I've jotted down story ideas, hoping to one day write my own book. I realized I just don't have the time, patience, and level of talent to pull of the stories I want to read. So instead, I am copy/pasting them (updating every week or so) from my notes for anyone to take and run with. *Note: The images below are from reddit r/pics or r/art. I link the artists for their recognition.

I will not ask for compensation, rights, or anything like that, I honestly want to just read these books. Good luck and happy writing!

AI Priori |Sci-Fi|

  1. Each year, five MTI student teams get 3 months with the campus' supercomputer (only five at their facility, so one per team); one of the teams granted access to the supercomputer originally applied with the intention of creating a replica molecule to create artificial feta cheese; instead, one of the students has an idea two weeks into the project that they want to test-using the supercomputer to figure out faster than light speed and then use that to predict the future. They punch into the computer to use the AI's FTL method and spit out a news story 24 hours into the future.
  2. Planning- They ask their friend to take off the sandbox mode from the supercomputer and get rid of the air gap for just a minute so the computer can communicate with other computers and send FTL information between it and a far-off satellite
  3. Two weeks go by and nothing
  4. Three weeks go by and it spits out an answer that is correct, but 20 days too late. It predicts the top story was (fill in news story)
  5. The team argues whether to continue on with the experiment and shut off the air gap, or switch back to the original cheese plan. They decide to turn try one more time, this time allowing three months to go by. If nothing happens, they will abondon the project and switch to the cheese molecule
  6. About a month goes by and it predicts XXX will happen in two months. The team are impressed and confused
  7. The team are waiting
  8. The date arrives and the prediction is correct. They decide to try what happens a week from then.
  9. The prediction arrives and the group are curious
  10. The date arrives and is correct.
  11. Professor realizes air gap is turned off; students loop them into the secret; they think of what the computer is doing and ask it how it is predicting the future and the computer comes up with a [bullshit answer]
  12. The team and professor make another prediction two weeks in advance and the computer is correct. They attempt to try another tactic- global price of tritium; it works
  13. Team and professor decide what they should do- tell someone? That could lead to catastrophe.
  14. Really, the supercomputer was never able to figure out FTL speeds and could NOT predict the future, but with access to other compuetrs/satellites, it MADE the future.
  15. Also at the end of the book, it turns out none of this happened and the entire story was written by AI.

​Here's the weird thing about this story- I came up with it back around 2019, before AI stories started taking off in 2023, so I kicked myself for not writing this sooner. I really like this one though and figured this would be kind of like a Ted Chang kind of short story.

Paths Unknown |Short Stories, Horror|

A short story horror book about a forest. Each story follows a person or people who succumb to or narrowly escape creatures in an old growth forrest. For example, a species of tree that makes a fake path that leads to a covered hole in the ground. Or ants that track your movement and follow you relentlessly. That kind of thing.

The Devil in the DNA |Sci-Fi|

Scientist discovers a series of genes that, given certain conditions, unlocks to make someone into a psychopath. It turns out the scientist had this group of genes as well as, putting a pause on publishing their epigenetic findings.

What Have You Done? |Insiprational|

The book takes your real-life events and points out what you have done, takeaways, how you overcame obstacles, etc. Each chapter is for a different developmental age so any age can read the book

The Deli |Literary Novel|

Deli shop owner of 70 years tells his customers stories he overheard over the decades owning the shop, and his throughts on the matters. It's a good vehicle for getting your own thoughts out.