Stagnant

Have you ever wondered about where the world is heading? Perhaps it's my degree in history, but as I watch the news and History Channel I keep thinking about how things repeat. If I think about it enough, seems like the world has gone stagnant. We're stuck in a rut and repeating ourselves. At least that's what I think especially during political commercials. I'm all about democracy but I hate election years just because of the commercials.

But all this got me going on a plot line to stretch between several books percolating in my brain. I've had many of the main characters for these books for a while as well as the relationships between them. I knew they all were the same world and connected but I didn't know what would be the plot that tied them together. Now I do.

The powers that created this world (insert religious warfare here) come back around to find their creation stuck. Who better to give the world a swift kick in the rear? Here comes the gibbering prophecy and weird powers to wake everyone up to the next stage of evolution. We have drugs amped with supernatural blood and a vampire terrorist torturing an unassuming computer security specialist for the information crossing his desk. Bring in the military special ops boys to save the day and get their brains twisted too.

Thank one of my coworkers for the military angle. He's ex-Navy and lets me pick his brain for information. Over the years I've known the occasional college ROTC or former something or other who tried it, put in minimum time, and got out. He's the only one I know who spent any length of time in armed services and he has some of the best stories. Drunk Marines backing down from a SEAL no bigger than me. Red kangaroos showing up on a missile launcher. Fabulous stories that make the rest of our coworkers leave us alone. Huh. Wonder why that would be. :)

So I put a scenario in front of him. Take this big bad military dude, put him in a desert, have a spell caster drop an ice storm on him. What would he do? The response was find shelter, take inventory of what he has, get the hell out. Once out, find a beer and a steak then figure out how to find the SOB who did it and mess him up. I would so love to actually meet such a guy just to see how he would act and react. Have I ever mentioned all those lovely psychology classes I took way back when?

Keep reading and let me know what you're thinking about.

SK