Corrupt? story proposal

Exposition: It's a nice sunny, clear day on the unknown street of an unnamed town. 13-year old Armande, her 9-year old siblings-Caleb and Kally- and their father are getting ready to go to school. They walk out of their relatively large, dark green house with their backpacks on; and the dread of attending another day of school. Outside their house, are neatly spaced Victorian styled houses and mansions; all complete with large, green lawns. Everything is spotless and shiny, including the households, grass, trees, streets, and even the sidewalks. There are scarcely any people or cars around. Overall, the neighborhood seems peaceful…and boring.

Inciting Incident: As the family stride towards their silver Honda Civic, their father suggests that they walk to school for a change. The children are filled with enthusiasm to be walking to school for the first time in their lives. As Caleb and Kally run up ahead, Armande and her father stroll. Soon, they approach a magnificent, pearl-white mansion. Suddenly, their father suggests that they go rob the household! The children are stunned that their dull, ordinary father would propose the absurd idea. Knowing the gravity of such a crime, Armande firmly recommends that they continue walking to school. However, their father persuades them assist him in his plan to rob the mansion.

Rising Action: They work together to break into the residence. Armande instructs everyone to split-up to search for valuables. As she slowly shut the door, a couple abruptly appears. They ask Armande if they could have a self-tour of the mansion. Acting as if she were the owner, Armande grants them permission. However, she becomes suspicious of the couple as they climb the staircase after Caleb and Kassy. Surreptitiously, Armande flies up the stairs after them.

Climax: When Armande reaches the room that held all her siblings and the conspicuous couple, she is stunned. The couple demands Armande to surrender the money to them, or else they would hurt Caleb and Kally. The man threatens to blow off Caleb’s head with his pistol. And the woman threatens to pour a bottle of acid on Kally.

Falling Action: Filled with panic, Armande pretends to faint. As she lay on the ground with her hands on the stolen money, she develops a very brittle plan. Her plan: unbound Caleb and Kally, and run. Still in the guise of fainting, exhaustion suddenly over takes Armande, and she actually falls into deep sleep.
Armande wakes up in the kitchen with the couple still insisting she barter the money for her siblings. Unfortunately for the couple, Armande spies the kitchen tools, sprints towards a butcher’s knife, and waves the weapon at the man’s armed hand. Frightening the man, he jumps away and drops the gun. Armande takes the gun, and then cut her brother’s bound hands. She points the gun at the woman, and forces her to back away from Kally. She successfully severs Kally’s roped hands. Just as Armande turns to shoot at the couple, they hear several sirens in the distance. Everyone runs for their own lives forgetting about the loot.

Resolution: Armande sits up in her bed breathing quick and hard. Her body feels like she just ran the mile. And the sides of her eyes feel crusty from dried tears. Swiftly, she remembers what happens. But when she looks around her room, she realizes it must have been a dream.

Denouement: Days later, several of Armande’s close friends and family notice a change in her person. Armande is more generous about her materials, and gets along better with her siblings. And even later in the years, Armande becomes a legendary prosecutor known for her animosity of the corrupt.

Jimmy's Short Story Proposal

Exposition:  On an island that was off the coast of Australia, there was a plane crash landing. The people who survived the crash, were all very frightened. People who searching for their loved ones while the waves were washing up parts of the plane and dead bodies. After all the chaos was over, people started thinking about what to do and if anyone would come to rescue them. But what all the people didn't know was that they were on a haunted island.

Inciting Incident: There was a guy named Dave on the island and he was a survival expert. He tried to get everyone to stay calm and make a plan. Dave and a few other brave people ventured into the island's forest, the forest was thick and cold. As the went further in they found a shrine. The shire had ancient writing on it and it said If you disturb this tomb, the spirits off hell will be released onto this island. But they could not read it because it was in ancient writing. 

Rising Action: The group decided to make camp near the shrine, because there was a lake next to the shrine. A few of the people decided that it would be a good idea to open the tomb. Some of the other members did not think that it was a good idea, but the people opened it anyway and a huge gust of wind came roaring out of the tomb into the air and then everything got quiet. 

Climax: A few days later after they had opened the tomb, people started to disappear. Dave and men went out to try to find them, they ventured into the forest and found nothing, but they did find another camp site, this camp site was abandoned and didn't look like anyone was there, they went into all the tents and in the last tent there sat an old woman, the old woman looked scared and frightened. When they asked her what had happened she explained everything to them. They rushed back to camp but no one was there. All the tents were empty and there was no one in sight. The men decided to try to get off the island as soon as they could, so they decided to build a boat. They finished half of it and they decided to stop and finish the rest tomorrow. They all went to sleep, but then the men got woken up by a voice they followed it, but Dave tried to make them stay but they thought that if they followed the voices it would lead them to the other that disappeared. Dave was sitting all alone in the tent for about 5 hours but then fell asleep.

Falling Action:  It was about 5am and he heard footsteps outside his tent. He started to get scared and he finally decided to go out of the tent. When he got out of the tent, there was nothing there, after he decided to finish building the boat, but he could not do it without the other men to help him, so he decided to follow the voice after awhile of walking he cam across a campsite. There was the old woman standing there staring at the ground. She looked up at him and said his name. After that everything went black and Dave was lying down in the tent back at the camp site. 

Resolution: After he walked out of the tent, the men said to him "So are you ready to go venture into the forest?" As the went deeper into the forest he saw the shrine again and it was like he was re-living everything over again.

Tony's short story proposal

Exposition
In the middle of down town San Francisco on market street there is a old apartment building. Drake Richmond has been living on this apartment complex all his life. Out of the 28 years of his life he does not remember anything that happened after he got his first job. His life was set around waking up going across the street and getting on the Muni for work. His memory lasts every morning from 7am-8am, and when he gains consciousness he is back home awake yet again for work.




Inciting incident
One day when he was going to work he saw a girl sitting across street. Drake never had such attention for one person; however she stopped time from bringing darkness to his mind. He forgets to get on the Muni for work until 9am. Looses his memory yet again, and Wakes up with bruises on his face. 




Rising action
The third day he saw this girl he approached her. She was Burnett with brown eyes and light white skin she was the only girl who can slow his time, and let him remember. There is a connection they become a couple and goes against time to gain his lost memory. Her name was Anna.




Climax 
Anna and Drake pay a visit to his so called work. Anna doesn't show up one day and follows him to "work". In the middle of south San Francisco Drake walks into a slaughter house. Anna watches Drake work for 10 hours without thought. Than he saw Anna in the middle of his work. It all came back to him. This was a temporary job that he got after college due to the economy, and the abusive boss beat him everyday making his brain shut down his entire memories of work. All the workers were this way. Anna calls in the FBI and the boss is taken to custody and all the workers are sent to rehab. 




Resolution
He opens his eyes and sees Anna. She saved his life and his memories. The youth that passed by because of this horrible job has gone and finally he had his girl in his arms. "A simple choice has give me opportunity to remember again she is the key to my memory".

Paul's Short Story Proposal

Exposition: Neil Cloudst, a seventeen year old highschooler is at the prime of his life. His entire community revolved around his positivity and selflessness. Not only was he known for being nice in his community, at school, everyone knew him as captain of their undefeated football team. Neil was the most popular and friendly person at school, until one day, he wakes up in the morning, and no one knows who he is.

                         As he awakes, he notices that all the sports' medals, pictures, and certificates that he had obtained over the past years, were gone. He gets up and doesn't think anything of it, and leaves to go to his bestfriend's house. After arriving at his friend's doorstep, he notices that the doormat they made together was missing. He knocks on the door, and his friend walks out, asking who he was. Thinking he's joking, Neil laughs and starts to joke around with him. His friend maintains a serious look on his face, and Neil starts to get scared. His friend asks him to leave, so Neil walks away, confused.

Inciting incident: As he's walking back home, he tries to start conversations with all of his former acquaintances, only to see that they really have no clue who he is. Neil ends up going to coffee shop to sit down and think about everything that's going on, and thats when the waitress almost calls him by his first name. Shocked, he takes her aside, and begins to interrogate her about what's going on. The manager comes out, alarmed, and threatens to call the cops.

Rising action: After convincing the manager that everything was alright, he sits down and asks the waitress one more time. She doesn't say anything, but she hands him a business card. The business card had nothing written on it, except for a phone number. He goes home and sits down, contemplating on what he had to lose. 

Climax: Neil calls the number on the card, and no one answers the phone. Disappointed, he calls it numerous times. A few minutes later, an entire swat team and a few FBI agents burst into his room and place a bag over his head and throw him in a van.

Resolution: Neil wakes up behind a metal table, sitting across from an Agent Burke. Agent Burke Hands Neil a file, and shows him all of the criminal actions that his mother and father were arrested for. Burke also shows Neil the file of the mission they were currently carrying out. "Operation Rebirth" was the mission in which Neil was to be drugged and woken up in a community with replacement parents, and friends that he was to make again. Unfortunately, he didn't drink all of the drug that they placed in his soda, and he woke up in the middle of the process. Devastated, Neil asks for the drug, and he wakes up the next morning as if nothing had happened.

Darioen's Short Story

Exposition: They call me many names around this city, Big Boss, Head Honcho, and my favorite The Clutch. My father died when I was only 4 years old, shot in the back of the head by the rival family, the Gambino's. My mother was having a hard time trying to support us in the harsh New York city, the place were dreams are supposedly  made. My mom worked at the local cafe during the day and worked the streets at night, it was never easy making friends at school being the quiet kid. I was always picked on for my size, but I did have one talent that helped me get through to adult hood though. I realized that I have knack for being able to create a posse or a family away from home, where we have each others back. I was the leader of this group, my friend Anthony 'Tony' Luciano, Joey 'The kid'  Profaci, and my cousin Paul ' Pepper Face' Gotti. I was seen as the Boss of this tiny army, but as we grew older our little gang grew as well. We soon had over 20 members in our posse. My cousin Paul was the underboss, in charge of every from intel to organizing hits on certain pests ruining business. Tony was my right hand man, he knew what was happening on the streets 24/7 and was able to help me make smart moves to avoid the wrong kind of attention. Last but not least Joey was my capodecina, coordinating new recruits and setting up key points in our business and to prevent the other families from destroying our kingdom. 




Inciting incident: Recently Joey hired this kid that know one knew, he was the quiet type, smart guy, knew how to handle himself in the world, but I saw some potential in him so I gave him a chance. Little did I know that this would be the begging to the end.  




Rising Action: The kids name is Alex "Penguin" Anglelidas, He's from the N.Z coast, a small little crime ridden town and he hopped on the boat to NY when he was 10 and began making a living for himself being a hit man. It seems as if Penguin knows to much about our way of operations too much, but it could be just a hunch. I just know that one of our money shipments has gone dark on us.




Climax: Joey disappears, Paul calls out on Alex being the loop to the police, a mole in our operations. I do some digging and create a false drug deal with a lot of money being involved to confirm my suspicions, Alex shows up and my men and I sack 'em and tie him up and throw him in the back of the trunk, we pull up to the docks and interrogate him and then we feed him to the fishes.




Falling Action: 20 years later, most of the original gang has died from cancer or assassinations, and I'm about to retire from old age, and let my new underboss run things how they used to be.




Resolution: In a retirement home writing an auto biography of my life.

Taniya's Short Story Proposal

Exposition: April, an eighteen year old girl lives with her family in Broker, a small town in Connecticut. It is her senior year and she is still a loser in school. She has no friends or anyone to talk to in school. Her dad is often out of the city due to his business and he is very strict when it comes to school. Her mom is a housewife, who wants the best for her children. She has a sister who is the exact opposite of her; friendly, smart and active. Her family isn’t very fond of her either because she is extremely lazy, doesn’t do any chores at home and nor does she get good grades in school.

Inciting Incident: The first semester finals results have come out and she has failed in all her classes except English. She has a huge fight with her mom.

Rising Action: She is unable to deal with all the hatred around her; hence she decides to leave the house. She has no idea where she is going but she keeps on walking aimlessly with her little purple suitcase.

Climax: From a distance, she sees a big bridge. She stands there by the road, considering suicide for some time. She leaves her suitcase there and starts to walk towards the bridge. With several thoughts running through her mind, her eyes slowly start to close as she is walking. A truck hits her.

Falling Action: The truck driver calls the cops who take her to the hospital immediately. The cops find her phone from one of her pockets and they call her parents. When the parents arrive, April is in the operation room, going through a major head surgery.

Resolution: The operation is not successful and she dies... leaving her parents in dismay.

Naomi H's Short Story Proposal

Exposition: Connor Bailey, a twenty-something artist, has never known peace.  In his neighborhood, ash and soot swirl through the air like charred snowflakes.  Wherever he looks, the ravaged skeletons of bombed-out buildings catch his eye.  He hates the shades of gray that cover everything.  He hates that the only colors in his pictures are black and white and gray.    

Thousands are drafted into the army to fight for a cause that no one really understands anymore.  Everyone knows that the war began many years ago; however, no one really understands why the war is still going on.  In fact, very little information about the war is available to normal civilians. 

Inciting incident: As he heads into town, carrying a stack of paintings that he hopes to sell, Connor learns that one of his neighbors has died in the war. Although he was never close to this neighbor, their death reminds Connor of the price of war.  In town, he checks in at the local recruiting office, just as he is required to.  A recruiting officer informs him that he is going to be sent to basic training before the end of the month.  Connor is given the necessary paperwork and told to return it within a week. 

Rising action: Impulsively, Connor burns his stack of paintings, reasoning that there is no longer a use for them.  The government is stealing away his life, sacrificing him in exchange for a cause that perhaps even they do not really understand.  He watches the ashes float into the smoky sky, wondering why he is being forced to give up everything for a war that benefits no one.

Climax: Connor paints one last picture as he spends the night wondering whether hiding from the government for the rest of his life after avoiding conscription will really be any better than spending the next five years at war.  By the end of the night, he has recreated what he thinks his neighborhood would look like if one took the trouble to scrape away every layer of ash and to rebuild every gutted home.

Ultimately, however, Connor decides to go to war, realizing that he doesn’t really have another option.  He returns to the recruiting office the next morning, paperwork completed.  He is marched into a steel-walled room… 

Falling Action: (added post-feedback) Two years later, Connor is on leave.  He returns to take a look at his old apartment.  Surprisingly, the destruction that characterized his neighborhood just two years ago has been mostly repaired, as the war front has moved farther and farther away.  However, the reader learns that Connor’s vision has been damaged in the war—he is colorblind.  Connor has also learned that there really is no meaning to the war anymore—men kill other men simply because it’s been done for so many decades that nobody understands how to do anything else.  

         
Resolution: Connor pulls a rolled-up canvas out of his knapsack—his last painting.  He still remembers that last, desperate night spent washing color after color across the skyline of his painted town.  He remembers being a little boy, wondering why everything around him was gray with ash and smoke.  When he left, he had hoped to come back someday to a city where the colors of destruction did not coat every surface—but such a city could never exist for him now.  The war had taken everything from Connor, leaving behind only an empty shell where his dreams of a city bathed in butter-yellow sunlight had once resided.  Connor Bailey's whole world is made of shades of gray, and he despises it.