| Prince Harry in Afghanistan – February 29, 2008 |
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| Written by Gordon Carroll | |
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Sooooo many possibilities. The Fourth Reich? With Sir Harry having clad himself as a Nazi soldier, that gives me the idea for a new, dangerous, England rising up in the image of WWII Germany. Zoiks!  Let’s see, we could throw in something about the death of his mother to give him a hatred of people from the Middle East, and maybe even feelings of detachment, resentment and suppressed hatred for his father. And to make it really interesting, throw in something about him exterminating the paparazzi.Plus, let’s make it cross genre. It sounds like an SF story so far; let’s throw in a little mystery; As Prince Harry is continuing his extermination of the paparazzi, he learns there is a plot to assassinate him. He thwarts the attempt, capturing the small band of saboteurs, but learns from one of them that the leader of their group is actually the photographer who caused the crash that killed his mother. This leads Prince Harry on a quest to find this person and exact revenge. However, it becomes such an obsession that he lets the rest of the war slide, leaving England’s Fourth Reich in serious peril.  So there. That’s a basic outline for either a short story, or even a novel, taken randomly from a story I saw in today’s paper. All we would need to do would be to add a few plot twists, and a good ending, and wha-la. Of course we could always go horror instead…Prince Harry returned home after conquering the East, destroying the hydra like heads of the terrorist organizations that had for millennia sprouted up from that barren, desert land. Upon his return his father greeted him warmly. Not his earthly father, Prince Charles, but his true father… Lucifer.  Hoo-hoo-hoo… scary. Scarier even then blood sucking monkeys from Pennsylvania… |
Now that sounds like a good idea for a story. Continuing on with the idea
that everyday headlines can lead to new story ideas, how about this; Before he can be yanked from Afghanistan, his unit is ambushed. Prince Harry sees most of his fellow soldiers fall to enemy fire, and goes berserk, almost single handedly wiping out the attacking Taliban contingent. He is then hailed as the Warrior Prince, ready to lead England back to its rightful place in world power.| < Prev | Next > |
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