Drill Down Into Story Ideas II

This is fun.  So I'm going to offer a few more here, for people who didn't find the first ones inspiring -- or who did, and would like to do more.

So, hmm. . . .

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city and town and country and wilds

Settings can contrast each other as character foils do,   One thing that can contrast is how settled they are.  And the fun part is that each one can look settled and civilized in contrast to the next.

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Splendors and Glooms

Splendors and Glooms by Laura Amy Schlitz

A Victorian-era fantasy children's book, for some reason labelled "Mystery" by the library I got it out from.  Not a good label.  Suspense, on the other hand, might be.

It opens with a dying old woman, Cassandra, afraid of the phoenix stone that has been the source of her magic.  A treacherous student of hers, from her middle years when he was young, had warned her about it, but not enough for her to escape.
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