I have two book ideas in my head (short stories) & want your feedback on which one I should write:
1. A middle aged marketing executive spends her life on Teams calls during the pandemic. She relishes in the fact that she has make up on, blown-dry hair, presentable home/background + appropriate top. Little do they know she has pajama pants on and they can guess whether or not she is wearing underwear.
Everyone asks why there is a green dot in her background and when she looks she never sees the green blob. Maybe its just a reflection she says, but meeting by meeting the people keep asking what it is. It begins to freak her out and after searching and searching and seeing nothing, she finds the two green orbs in her kitchen one night..
Inside one green orb is the spirit of Arthur Ashe and inside the other green orb is the spirit of Walter Cronkite. Mr. Tennis trailblazer is having coffee with Mr. Journalistic integrity. What are they talking about and why have they chosen to visit this marketing executive?
2. A Chinese-American teenager is on the 6 train to Grand Central. A crazy black man with big muscles is yelling at a Chinese old lady sitting on the bench. Only after a few seconds does she hear what he is yelling, "Chink, Chink". Everyone on the train is scared and looks away but the old lady looks dazed, frightened but yet indifferent. Maybe she doesn't understand English. No that she'd understand. "Go back to China, take the Wuhan virus with you".
The teenager feels rage and when she can't take it anymore screams "shut up and leave her alone". She sits next to the old lady for support but the man keeps yelling. All the other chicken-shit New Yorkers just sit there looking away not making eye contact. The doors open and a force comes over the teenager's body. She lunges at the crazy man and pushes him out of the door. He stumbles on the dirty smelly platform but rolls on to his hands and knees. He jumps up, pulls a small gun out of his pocket and aims. The world freezes and all hold their breath as the shot goes off and hits the old lady in the stomach. Blood is everywhere as the teenager holds the old woman. She sobs. What have I done?
Please vote. 1 or 2?
Happy Thanksgiving 2020
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