Let’s pretend this picture is the cover art for your next book. What title would you pick for it? Create a one-sentence cut line describing your story!
35 thoughts on “Reader Friday: Invent a Title!”
Read It and Weep . . . Suckahs!
A populist-based political movement is disclosed to be a hoax perpetrated by greedy, corrupt fear mongers. AKA: The Boogieman is real, Virginia.
King Solomon’s Mime.
LOL!
“Where silence is not only golden. It’s deadly.”
Tears for the Dead
What happens when you seek revenge and then fall in love with your target?
Noh Nun Too Far
A Buddhist nun traveling with a troup of Noh players has to push her vows to the limit to stop the psychopath killing off their audience.
Fabulous one, Lance!
Mask of Sorrows
The mask had the power to release the wearer’s sorrows. But there was a price.
FIRST COMES DEATH
Isabel Morely expected to die. She didn’t expect Death to be the beginning of a Very Bad Day.
Behind the Tears
Some sort of psychological thriller where the woman thinks she is losing her mind but everyone around her scoffs and says she is just looking for attention. And it turns out that is all it was.
May not sell well but I can think of a host of actresses for the lead role if it was made into a movie.
An unreliable fem narrator with paranormal suspense–I love that!
Samurai Mines
An ancient burial ground is discovered in East China, and a government lock down creates a challenge and a race to uncover the lost treasures of a dying patriarch.
Would be great as a boxed set with Jim’s King Solomon’s Mime!
Locked In Darkness Phantom of Death Series
THE INVISIBLES
What you can’t see will kill you…
I want to read that one!
And in the dark the heart weeps
KABUKI THEATER
No one gets out alive…
I like this one!
Weeping Souls We all wear masks. . .
HALF FRAMED The story of one woman’s struggle to take a picture of her entire face with her smartphone.
THE DEADLY SELFIE
Joe–I usually want to murder someone when I try to frame in a selfie. Totally plausible plot. You & Lynn should write it. You’ve already got the cover.
The Eyes That Bind – A blind Japanese girl becomes a stone cold killer after unwittingly receiving dual cornea transplants from an executed murderer
DROWNING
She didn’t want love. She didn’t want a man. She wanted to forget.
Shrinking Sadness Female psychiatrist falls for and becomes the fourth wife of a patient.
Soul Mask Reality is not what you see, but what lies behind the mask.
Hollow The enemy of man will steal all that is you.
Death Whisper A child’s gift is his worst nightmare, as he hears the soul cries of those about to die.
Eternal Sorrow Immortality sounded like heaven, until she realized all her sorrows were now forever.
Osmosis An unseen force is absorbing the souls of the living, one with the universe is not as nice as they say.
Blood Puppet Some will stop at nothing to gain power, not even the boundaries of nightmare.
Eterne Banished from her world, she assumes the shape of a woman but has not lost a drop of the evil in her heart.
The Empty Lonely is just a word, but emptiness is a state of being.
or from another genre perspective:
Emo Mask Chick All the guys think she’s hot but creepy, really creepy.
Bloody Eye Someone get a doctor, she’s got blood in her eye.
Broccoli See mom! I told you broccoli was poison!
Running with Scissors She was told not to…
Kitty, Kitty Bath time for kitty just got real.
The kitty one made me laugh out loud, Basil!
I’ll roll with my entry in the first heat of the NYC Midnight Flash Fiction contest:
PRIME TIME
Jack and Bill entered the reality show to win, the mime can either lead, follow, or get out of the way.
If anyone has a hankering for some absurd flash fiction, my prompts were Comedy/Rainforest/Water Balloons and my entry can be found here:
Read It and Weep . . . Suckahs!
A populist-based political movement is disclosed to be a hoax perpetrated by greedy, corrupt fear mongers. AKA: The Boogieman is real, Virginia.
King Solomon’s Mime.
LOL!
“Where silence is not only golden. It’s deadly.”
Tears for the Dead
What happens when you seek revenge and then fall in love with your target?
Noh Nun Too Far
A Buddhist nun traveling with a troup of Noh players has to push her vows to the limit to stop the psychopath killing off their audience.
Fabulous one, Lance!
Mask of Sorrows
The mask had the power to release the wearer’s sorrows. But there was a price.
FIRST COMES DEATH
Isabel Morely expected to die. She didn’t expect Death to be the beginning of a Very Bad Day.
Behind the Tears
Some sort of psychological thriller where the woman thinks she is losing her mind but everyone around her scoffs and says she is just looking for attention. And it turns out that is all it was.
May not sell well but I can think of a host of actresses for the lead role if it was made into a movie.
An unreliable fem narrator with paranormal suspense–I love that!
Samurai Mines
An ancient burial ground is discovered in East China, and a government lock down creates a challenge and a race to uncover the lost treasures of a dying patriarch.
Would be great as a boxed set with Jim’s King Solomon’s Mime!
Locked In Darkness
Phantom of Death Series
THE INVISIBLES
What you can’t see will kill you…
I want to read that one!
And in the dark the heart weeps
KABUKI THEATER
No one gets out alive…
I like this one!
Weeping Souls
We all wear masks. . .
HALF FRAMED
The story of one woman’s struggle to take a picture of her entire face with her smartphone.
THE DEADLY SELFIE
Joe–I usually want to murder someone when I try to frame in a selfie. Totally plausible plot. You & Lynn should write it. You’ve already got the cover.
The Eyes That Bind – A blind Japanese girl becomes a stone cold killer after unwittingly receiving dual cornea transplants from an executed murderer
DROWNING
She didn’t want love. She didn’t want a man. She wanted to forget.
Shrinking Sadness
Female psychiatrist falls for and becomes the fourth wife of a patient.
Soul Mask
Reality is not what you see, but what lies behind the mask.
Hollow
The enemy of man will steal all that is you.
Death Whisper
A child’s gift is his worst nightmare, as he hears the soul cries of those about to die.
Eternal Sorrow
Immortality sounded like heaven, until she realized all her sorrows were now forever.
Osmosis
An unseen force is absorbing the souls of the living, one with the universe is not as nice as they say.
Blood Puppet
Some will stop at nothing to gain power, not even the boundaries of nightmare.
Eterne
Banished from her world, she assumes the shape of a woman but has not lost a drop of the evil in her heart.
The Empty
Lonely is just a word, but emptiness is a state of being.
or from another genre perspective:
Emo Mask Chick
All the guys think she’s hot but creepy, really creepy.
Bloody Eye
Someone get a doctor, she’s got blood in her eye.
Broccoli
See mom! I told you broccoli was poison!
Running with Scissors
She was told not to…
Kitty, Kitty
Bath time for kitty just got real.
The kitty one made me laugh out loud, Basil!
I’ll roll with my entry in the first heat of the NYC Midnight Flash Fiction contest:
PRIME TIME
Jack and Bill entered the reality show to win, the mime can either lead, follow, or get out of the way.
If anyone has a hankering for some absurd flash fiction, my prompts were Comedy/Rainforest/Water Balloons and my entry can be found here:
http://readinrittinrhetoric.blogspot.com/2013/09/its-midnight-in-nyc.html
Crying for Attention
Graphic Artists On Strike
Photo-Chop-Shop
Half Covered
W for Wangst (the sequel to V for Vendetta)
I could go on and on… “this one” speaks to me… The other suggestions were all good too.
Cry your eyes out…
Mother warned me about the clock striking, but she never told me about the tears….
Broken Trust
Sharp Stick
or: The Eyes Have It
Facade
Had my medical doctor taken the Hippocratic Oath or the assassin’s creed?
YOU’LL SHOOT YOUR EYE OUT
“Mothers are always right.”