"t-shirts of the rich and famous"

"He had discovered that the earth itself was breathing."

This would make great flap copy for a novel that has not yet been written: "Little fish spread their wings, pets on hormones, and the modern art detectives."

write a story about failed attempts at utopia. maybe seperate them by age, but link them by theme: the shakers, the 1960s, today.

"The Great American Memory Hole"

"Former Libraries"

"The Shooting of Songbirds"

"the directory of future saints"

"At Midnight, All the Doctors Scream"

"The Dreaming Machine"

no one is home in the cities of the future.

"It’s as if you and your mate began coitus as yourselves and finished as identical twins."

write a story in which no one speaks because no one can: a decade of silence.

write a short series of minor stories that directly interogate the reader about their own meaning and/or interpretation. kind of a 'choose your own adventure' of literary subjectivity, but the story does not continue on the page after the direction question to the reader, but rather continues in the mind of the reader based on the individual assumptions/ideas/interpretations provoked by those questions.

"The Girl with the Temporary Hair"

write a concept album of songs inspired by disgraced governors. "rod's [expletive deleted] theme", "hiking the appalachian trail", "emperors club VIP"

"The Self-Thinking Thought"

"Aspirin in the Afterlife"

"Plans for Impossible Cities"

"Stewart Stevens and His Fabulous Bird Whistles"

"Vessels for Baal"

write a story where sleep is a real substance (possibly produced in a factory) and the supply is running out.

write a novel that functions as an enormous palindrome.