Throwaway ideas II

This week's list of throwaway literary ideas. As always, I reserve the right to use these ideas if I want. If you do end up using these, please credit me.

1. Bubbles: A protagonist discovers that he can understand messages in the size and popping tone of soap bubbles. It's debatable what the message is, but supposing the message is dire enough, how does the protagonist alert whoever needs alerting and how does he convince them of his story.
2. Telephone: A protagonist picks up the telephone one day to hear a countdown. He can't seem to make any calls from any phone (this applies to just the protagonist), and any phone he picks up will resume the countdown. It's debatable what the countdown is counting down to.
3. Alone: The protagonist finds himself in a laboratory for unknown reasons. His only companion is a telephone. When the phone rings, he hears static on the other end, but he soon starts to discern voices in the static. It's debatable whether the voices are real or not.
4. Website: A protagonist follows a web link to a site that details his daily life, down to the fact that he's viewing the site at the moment. He doesn't know how the information is being sent to the site, but it details every part of his life, including his past infidelities. The site seems to be blackmailing him.
5. Memory: A protagonist finds a quaint shop in a seedy corner of some city (in my mind its an Eastern-type setting). The shop sells cages of all sorts, and the cages contain all kinds of inanimate things. These things turn out to be forgotten memories, or perhaps dangerous memories, which cause trouble if found.

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Throwaway ideas

Yea, I know an update hasn't happened in a while. Quit yer yappin.

Today, and hopefully on a regular basis, I'll detail between 5 and 10 throwaway story or short story ideas. Feel free to use them as you will. I reserve the right, however, to use any of these ideas as I will. In no way do I claim that these ideas have not been covered or done before. Not everyone can read everything, right? If these ideas have been successfully done, though, I'd like to hear about it. If you do end up using one of these ideas, please credit me with the idea.

1. Death is not the end: Somebody is supposed to die, perhaps in an accident (pick a method), but something interferes, and the actual death doesn't happen. However, the soul is removed from the body because "it was their time". The story could explore what happens to a soulless body, or perhaps how people around the supposed-deceased behave, or how things start going a little weird for the person.
2. Not schizophrenia: An inverse of multiple personality disorder (these days known as dissociative identity disorder), where one personality shares many bodies, perhaps in a community or a home. A psychiatrist discovers these people who share the same personality.
3. The gods must be only slightly demented: A patient in a mental hospital either is God, or has godlike powers. The patient really is mentally unstable, so the powers don't necessarily do anyone any good.
4. Snufalupagus: Someone gets told, in a way that they cannot doubt, that a certain other person is destined to be their true love. The person they are told about, however, turns out to be a perfect description of their childhood imaginary friend. Questions that can be covered in the story are did (or does) the person really exist, how do they go about meeting (if it happens), does love remain unrequited? You can also explore the effect of being told that who you thought was imaginary exists somewhere outside of the imagination.
5. Who's your daddy: The protagonist discovers that their father actually died hundreds of years ago, perhaps in another part of the world, and therefore could not logically have fathered them. You could explore whether his mother has any explanation, how the protagonist accepts the information, and how they found this information out.

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