Catalog of unused ideas

#1 Fisherman falls in love with merman and must grapple with his crew's homophobia.

#4 Dragon ostracized for building unconventional hoards (of books, of paper boats) turns out to be a different species.

#6 Twisted painter controls people's lives by painting what he wants them to do.

#8 Reincarnation forces Cain and Abel to relive their feud as CEOs, beetles, and vines.

#9 Time-traveling war correspondent falls for the soldier she's supposed to cover, and is torn between saving his life and letting him die a critically important death.

#11 Cartographer traveling along an already-mapped coastline discovers a secret peninsula and a vast conspiracy of map-makers.

#18 A first contact story told through the notes of a psychologist treating one of the self-identified aliens.

#29 The Real World with androids that don't know they're androids.

#33 Farmer in a remote mountain village stumbles over a corpse in a cheese cellar, and it's no one she knows.

#34 TK rents his body to someone who uses it to commit a crime.

#37 Weavers that sing while weaving produce garments that make wearers remember the songs as if they'd lived them.

#38 “Apathycary” who makes potions that neutralize emotions is called on to make a neutralizing potion for a Very Bad Reason.

#40 Bone jams made from skulls confer the knowledge contained in the brains those skulls used to house. What of bone jams made from ribcages?

#42 Serial killer desperate to discover the meaning of life has his world rocked when he unwittingly targets a closet nihilist.

#43 TK is haunted by the ghost of herself after surviving an accident that should've killed her.

#44 When a resource-starved continent threatens to euthanize those with the fewest social ties, a band of introverts unites to help each other escape.

#45 Someone is sending TK oil paintings depicting incidents from her future. When she receives a painting showing how she'll die, she decides to track down the artist.

#46 Hansel and Gretel are sociopathic tweens murdering old women who live alone.

#49 A moth flies toward the sun and discovers he's actually a butterfly.

#53 Gator Raiders (marauders riding on massive alligators) terrorize the countryside and Must Be Stopped.

#54 Ovomancy is magic that leverages the supernatural properties of various kinds of eggs.

#57 Watership Down but in a field of ground-dwelling spiders.

#58 Warden at an alien game reserve takes radical action to stop poachers.

#63 The story of a friendship unmade and remade repeatedly over a lifetime that stretches across 300 years.

#66 The Canterbury Tales but with addicts in a support group, rather than pilgrims on a pilgrimage.

#74 Diary of a man trapped with his dying family when plague doctors board up his house.

#75 A potter, a weaver, and a carpenter flee a village where each was persecuted for a different reason.

#76 A city that sits atop a forest of giant trees is thrown into chaos when someone burns the rope bridges.

#80 Murder She Wrote in 12th Century France.

#84 A man inherits a talking bird when his mother dies, and the bird's vocabulary raises questions.

#86 A 21st century child frozen when she was diagnosed with an incurable disease is found in an abandoned freezership two centuries later.

#92 Society grapples with the discovery of people who are supernaturally good at lying.

#93 Cookbook of an Eighteenth Century aristocrat booted from high society.

#94 Temporal tourists rent time in the bodies of people who lived through interesting historical events.

#96 A man is cursed to be forgettable–when he's out of sight, he's unremembered.

#97 Giant snakes sliding through friction mazes generate all our electricity but the snakes are getting old and no one knows how to breed them.

#98 In a society where everyone has multiple personalities and the personality surfaced depends on the color worn, a well-aimed paint-filled water balloon brings down the government.

#101 A woman planet hops in search of a brother who doesn't want to be found.

#120 The first farmer struggles to convince her caravan to stay put long enough for her crop to mature.

#125 The sad home life of a lounge singer on an interstellar cruiser.

#127 Children who eat popsicles from a haunted ice cream truck start having purple nosebleeds.

#136 At an orphanage for souls, spirits spy on people in soul-sucking jobs, waiting for a vessel to become available.

#138 Control Z, a drug that lets users rewind life, rips so many holes in the fabric of spacetime that whole cities collapse into temporal sinkholes.

#151 Detectives who use psychic luminol to reveal emotional residue find traces of an emotion they've never seen before.

#155 Art Crimes and Homicide team up to catch a graffiti artist whose terrifically beautiful works are rendered in human blood.

#162 A bad batch of Rewind leaves people stranded in the terrific memories they were revisiting as part of exposure therapy.

#163 Resource-starved planet euthanizes 12, 24, and 32 year olds who have not reached certain milestones.

#164 The Lady of the Flies: an all female-identified retelling.

#179 Lab releases swarm of insects whose genetically-engineered stings make people euphoric.

#187 An eyeball finds its way into a tray of deviled eggs.

#190 Grizzled old peasant farmer decides to become an adventurer after his husband dies.

#197 The grim reaper looses their sense of direction and leads souls to a different kind of afterlife.

#210 Miners find a disturbed woman in a cavern that had no entrance until they made one.

#218 Rival cults fight each other in a graveyard for control of a specific grave.

#223 Stories your dishwasher tells itself to explain the things you put in it.

#267 cut-throat Food barons compete to produce the most successful children's cereal of all time.

#281 TK falls asleep on the train and wakes up at a station that isn't on any map.

#300 Young man from an interstellar metropolis travels to a rural planet to tutor the child of a grouchy widower.

#301 Fifteen year old aristocrat and her attendant are sole survivors of an illness that kills everyone else in their household.

#322 Bird finds a foreign egg in his nest, incubates it, and is ostracized when he insists on raising the hatchling–a baby snake.

#328 Magic rooting powder will cause any cut end to sprout roots, even a severed finger.

#329 Two teens diagnosed with schizophrenia discover they're having identical hallucinations.

#363 Defense attorneys receive mysterious invitations to a holiday party attended by their clients, one of whom will commit murder...again.

#367 Ornithologist travels to remote planet to study sand flamingos, long-necked green birds that fish in pools of sand.

#375 Man in Hell tries to convince everyone else in Hell that Hell doesn't exist, after realizing Hell is a place where anything becomes true if enough people believe it.

#432 Mood cloth does what mood rings did but for whole outfits.