New Story Idea

So my wife had a dream last night - nightmare, actually. In the nightmare, she said I was a serial killer (go figure), and that I had been hiding bodies in the basement, and eventually, the detritus from their decay began to seep out onto the floor, which is how she kept finding the bodies.

She tells me the dream this morning, and I instantly think, "What a good idea!"

No, not the killing people part and hiding them in the basement. Bad idea. Bad, bad!

No, the part about a wife discovering her husband is a serial killer. What if a woman is married, and after becoming a Christian, begins to 'hear God warning her about her husband.' Everyone else suspects she's crazy, schizophrenic. She's starting to wonder herself. Meanwhile, she keeps discovering more evidence that her husband might, in fact, be a serial killer.

Anyway, I've decided to call this particular book Revelation. Don't worry, I'll still keep working on the other stories I have.

See, this is why I think I'm really supposed to do this. I keep getting new story ideas all the time. I have so many stinkin' ideas right now, I have no idea when I'll find the time to write them all. But I'll keep at it.

Anyway, this will be a fun way to explore the difference between hearing God's voice and going crazy (and isn't it wonderful how our modern culture assumes that if you talk to God, you're a saint, but if God talks to you, you're crazy.).

Meanwhile, this will be deliciously dark and foreboding. Another theme to touch on will be the contrast between Biblical submission, the quasi-religious cultural version of submission which is really suppression, and the modern cultural response of "liberation" which only produces chains instead (naw, I'm not thinking literally here. Too easy).

I'm inspired by my wife's nightmares. B-yoo-ti-full!