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My Brain Has Too Many Ideas
Apr. 7th, 2015 02:48 pmI have this story idea about this couple who gets frozen in what looks like a huge blob of amber in the middle of an outdoor restaurant.
What happens is they're business associates having a lunch. When they shake hands to go, this blob descends on them or materializes around them.
Nobody can get into the blob. The couple appears frozen. There's a sound coming from the blob, like a buzz or a hum or something. Its on all the news stations.
After a few days, it becomes clear that the couple is in a slightly different position - the blob has been videoed continually since it descended on them and when they speed it up, they're still moving. They figure out that the buzz/hum is them speaking to each other, though they're moving so slowly in relationship to the rest of the world that they've barely gotten a word into their sentence.
Weeks and months pass. The couple doesn't seem to be losing any weight and they seems to be getting closer and closer together. The entirety of the dialogue between the two of them has just been "what is happening" and "I can't control my body." They're unaware of the people outside the bubble. The theory is everyone else is moving too fast in relationship to them. The husband of the woman and girlfriend of the man come down every day to check on them. Controversy erupts when the husband and girlfriend start an affair, about a year in to the ordeal.
16 months in, audio experts announce that a third voice is speaking. The couple, by this time, are inches from each other. The third voice is not speaking in a recognizable language. The town has made the couple a tourist attraction. Scientists feel they've exhausted all options. The husband has filed for divorce and moved in with the girlfriend.
Two years in, they decide they need to restrict access to the bubble, so they're erected a semi-permanent tent around it. The clothes of the couple in the amber have started coming off, apparently of their own accord. The couple appears suspends above the ground and the dialogue has become desperate. The theory is that the third voice might be the voice of the amber bubble itself. Its further theorized that no more than about six minutes have passed from the perspective of the couple in the bubble.
By the end of the third year, the couples are engaged in sex, but the body language of both them suggests neither of them are happy or willing participants. This isn't reported in the media because its considered not safe for children. The politicians and community members involved in making sure this media blackout continues report that its just because their clothes had come off.
Six years in, the bubble bursts and the couple are deposited on the ground, nude and covered in the amber-like substance.
They don't recall much of anything that happened, just being trapped and being part of an experiment. They ask for their partners and the authorities basically say "you're in quarantine, but soon." Nobody really wants to tell them that their former partners are now married to each other with two kids.
She's pregnant but there are anomalies. She's whisked off to God knows where. The last time he sees her is through a bar window. She's struggling as she's put into an ambulance. They make eye contact and she's gone.
In the three weeks that he's been out of the bubble, he's noticed that he's gotten not only lost his extra weight, but is actually developing some serious muscle tone. He's not exercising. One day, he tries the knob on his locked door and breaks it off. He puts the knob back on (as best he can) and says nothing. They saw him do this on the rooms' cameras, though. Plans are made to sedate him and move him somewhere else, too.
As he's moved outside, drugged and somewhat restrained, a bubble drops again over him and all of the people moving him out. Somewhere in Nevada, another bubble descends. Reports of bubbles dropping on all of the people who made contact in some way shape or form with the original bubble flood the evening news.
That's as far as the idea has advanced so far.
What happens is they're business associates having a lunch. When they shake hands to go, this blob descends on them or materializes around them.
Nobody can get into the blob. The couple appears frozen. There's a sound coming from the blob, like a buzz or a hum or something. Its on all the news stations.
After a few days, it becomes clear that the couple is in a slightly different position - the blob has been videoed continually since it descended on them and when they speed it up, they're still moving. They figure out that the buzz/hum is them speaking to each other, though they're moving so slowly in relationship to the rest of the world that they've barely gotten a word into their sentence.
Weeks and months pass. The couple doesn't seem to be losing any weight and they seems to be getting closer and closer together. The entirety of the dialogue between the two of them has just been "what is happening" and "I can't control my body." They're unaware of the people outside the bubble. The theory is everyone else is moving too fast in relationship to them. The husband of the woman and girlfriend of the man come down every day to check on them. Controversy erupts when the husband and girlfriend start an affair, about a year in to the ordeal.
16 months in, audio experts announce that a third voice is speaking. The couple, by this time, are inches from each other. The third voice is not speaking in a recognizable language. The town has made the couple a tourist attraction. Scientists feel they've exhausted all options. The husband has filed for divorce and moved in with the girlfriend.
Two years in, they decide they need to restrict access to the bubble, so they're erected a semi-permanent tent around it. The clothes of the couple in the amber have started coming off, apparently of their own accord. The couple appears suspends above the ground and the dialogue has become desperate. The theory is that the third voice might be the voice of the amber bubble itself. Its further theorized that no more than about six minutes have passed from the perspective of the couple in the bubble.
By the end of the third year, the couples are engaged in sex, but the body language of both them suggests neither of them are happy or willing participants. This isn't reported in the media because its considered not safe for children. The politicians and community members involved in making sure this media blackout continues report that its just because their clothes had come off.
Six years in, the bubble bursts and the couple are deposited on the ground, nude and covered in the amber-like substance.
They don't recall much of anything that happened, just being trapped and being part of an experiment. They ask for their partners and the authorities basically say "you're in quarantine, but soon." Nobody really wants to tell them that their former partners are now married to each other with two kids.
She's pregnant but there are anomalies. She's whisked off to God knows where. The last time he sees her is through a bar window. She's struggling as she's put into an ambulance. They make eye contact and she's gone.
In the three weeks that he's been out of the bubble, he's noticed that he's gotten not only lost his extra weight, but is actually developing some serious muscle tone. He's not exercising. One day, he tries the knob on his locked door and breaks it off. He puts the knob back on (as best he can) and says nothing. They saw him do this on the rooms' cameras, though. Plans are made to sedate him and move him somewhere else, too.
As he's moved outside, drugged and somewhat restrained, a bubble drops again over him and all of the people moving him out. Somewhere in Nevada, another bubble descends. Reports of bubbles dropping on all of the people who made contact in some way shape or form with the original bubble flood the evening news.
That's as far as the idea has advanced so far.
