Forum: Story Ideas

This is more or less the backstory of the show Jericho, if I remember. Although you don't see the 'kid run world', but the aftermath years after the apocalypse.

I hadn't considered that, not even remembering Jericho until you mentioned it. That's how they say a lot of copyright theft starts. Someone gets a great idea for a song, conveniently forgetting they just heard it on the radio without consciously thinking about it. I may have to go back and rewatch the series, though I remember, at the time, being disappointed in the series. :(

My idea is more playing off the kids' naivete and idealism conflicting with the bitter realities of surviving when unprepared to support yourself. It might deal with the how they struggle to overcome simple tasks: like trading for items or skills they don't have, trusting anyone older not to take advantage of them, while knowing enough to watch them like a hawk, and dealing with the emotional issues without a preexisting support system. Dramatic stuff, while still packed with a lot of the ol' "cute factor"!

Ohh, I know you're idea was different. The big thing is your idea is showing what happens when all the adults die, which the show skipped because that was "10 years in the past" so everyone was in their 20s. I remember thinking it was a good idea that would be worth seeing the actual aftermath.

Also, I got the name wrong. It was Jeramiah, not Jericho (that was a different post-apocalyptic show)

I'm not as interested in the "difficulties of growing up and the nature of man as a social animal" or what happens to children without parents once they grow up.

I was more intrigued by a group of young kids (pre-teen) who are thrust into a survival mode—especially if part of survival is avoiding the adults likely to use them for their own benefit (more a contrast between naive innocence vs. jaded practicality in a life-or-death situation).

But that's just me. I'm more interested in the human, interpersonal component than I am in 'social mores.

"Social Mores": that would be Roger Moore's socialist brothers.

In this case, some of the kids started off by killing each other for the supplies and weapons the other kids had. A small group banded together for mutual protection. They then had to deal with their new environment, which included some fairly tame rabbit-like animals, Jackalopes, which became rapid killers that attacked everything in sight once a year. Then there was the interpersonal relationships pregnancy and other factors common to establishing a village.

Then there was the adults relocating the kids. The adults wanted to treat them as children and rescue them, while a component of the children wanted to remain behind on their new world.

That sounds like the one. I thought it might be Heinlein and the only title I could think of was Methuselah's Children which was a very different story. Thanks.

I liked "Perverted Ass" as I hadn't heard that one before.

That's what they get when they use crazy horses in the breeding cycle.

hard to imagine a story where only young goats survived the apocalypse!

It makes it easier climbing over the devastated landscape! 'D