American Crime

Put columbian crime stories inside the united states, with all white criminals. The drug dealers bribe white cops, kill white judges and blow up the supreme court. The show would bring perspective on what happened.

The interviewer

This is about a talk show host. He does nothing but interview people but everyone who comes on is written a script. Most of them made fun of the host, some just consistently got his name wrong, some thought he was a woman, some sat in his chair and interviewed him. He had an assistant that sometimes would sit in the chair and due interviews, and many times he would ask the guests a question and they would ignore him and talk to his guest host. The guests would preview movies they weren't in, movies that came out 20 years ago and fake movies. But it was all done completely seriously and there was never a nod to the audience.

Apple Tree

Let me tell you a secret that has taken me decades to learn and will take the rest of my life to apply. It is a very simple concept that nevertheless is very difficult for me to remember. The secret comes in two parts Part 1: It is our subconscious that drives our behavior, not our conscious. What we are unaware of, or at least peripherally aware of, is way more important to who we are and what we do then what we think. Most of our thoughts are just catching up with our subconscious, filling in and making up stories that make sense of what is already decided and being carried out by our hidden mind. This may sound hopeless to you, because no matter how much thought you out into controlling your action, no matter how much behavior you try to shape, it will never as matter as much as your subconscious. But it actually gives me much hope because of the second part Part 2: you can shape your subconscious. I use the word shape very carefully. You can control your words and train our thoughts (at least some of them), change your behaviors but the process with the subconscious is more subtle. We don't control our subconscious, we influence it. Because we cannot "know" our subconscious, and can't grasp it, we cannot control all the processes of action. We feed, nurture, and remove obstacles for our subconscious, but the control is out of our hands. What I am talking about isn't just about psychology. In Christian Terms, this is about our soul, and this is the most import part of us. I like to see the subconscious as an apple tree growing in rocky ground and our consciousness is the farmer. We are taught in the bible that our behaviors are an outcropping of our soul, that we should measure our souls by our fruit. But we some how get confused in this process. We want to control the fruit, to show to our neighbors our shiny fruit, but we didn't write the blue print for the tree, we are not in charge of the recipe. No matter how much we prune our tree and mess with the fruit a blue berry will never grow out of an apple tree. As Christians it is very easy to focus on our outside behavior. We read the bible. We pray, we say nice things, go to church and try to follow the commandments. But these are all actions. And none of them directly nurture the soul. We are told that if we do a behavior enough it will lead to a change in the soul. This is true, to an extend. We know from psychological studies that if someone smiles over and over even when she doesn't want to she will later say she is somewhat happier. We know that if we have more "good" habits and less "bad" habits, we will cause less distress in our lives and it will lead to a change in us. But there is problems with this. Problem 1: This is very forceful. This is like choosing the shape the apple tree will grow and forcing it into your idea of what is best. When we force change from the outside and don't pay attention to what we need on the inside, our faith can become based off of effort Problem 2: But the problem is that our idea of what is best is biased. Problem 3: And forcing our character to fit our prescribed behaviors can make people feel hollow inside. It is like a beautiful apple that shines in the super market and tastes awful when you bring it home. If you force yourself to smile every day it will change you, but it can lead others to think you are phony. More importantly, eventually you will feel fake. Problem 4: As Christians we are taught that salvation comes from faith by grace. But there is another process, called sanctification. This is the process of turning the old us, our old nature, or sin nature, or immaturity or lies we used to accept and changing it all into who were are born to be. We are created as the imago dei, which means the image of God. The blue print is already set, the recipe has been decided by someone else. But we get this confused. We believe that God does the salvation part but our effort is to finish the job. We have taken over the sanctification process and tried to fix it with works. But true sanctification can not be lead by works, it has to be lead by God, through who he has created us to be. When we try to control the process, it shows our lack of faith that God already gave us everything we need. When we think we have to grow ourselves to god we are acknowledging the lie we believe, that we were made defective. The most common message to me growing up was to be myself. I was told to listen to my heart, to follow my own path, to be who I was and not what others told me who I was. I hated this. I had multiple problems with this 1. I didn't know who I was. Being myself sounded ridiculous to someone who felt like I could be whatever I wanted to be. 2. The little I did know of myself I didn't like 3. "being myself" sounded lazy and giving up I can know see that the environment I grew up in was extreme behaviorism, and the more people I meet, many from different religious cultural backgrounds or even who grew up on the opposite side of the world, all seemed to grow up in this behaviorism. But it is also because young kids are extremely concrete. It is a necessity of making sense of a crazy world. Kids have to think in black and white. The problem is, if we are in a open, nurturing environment when we are around early high school, we start to think in abstracts, we the world as more than good or bad, black and white, right and wrong. So many of us, especially in the culture I was raised in, never saw out of this. What surprised me most and still surprises me, even if it shouldn't is the connection with black and white, extreme behaviorism and how Christianity was practiced.

Ancient America-disney style

It turns out all the disney stories about princesses and castles took place in america with the native americans around the time of Jesus. During the time of "ever After" they all run city states on the east coast in the same places as current cities like NY and philadelphia. They all are very happy getting along and there is a great era of peace. But one time King Charming is killed when he crosses the mississippi river on an adventure mission. More and more evil magic is coming from the unruled section of america, which is the west. The families all get together at the funeral and have to make the biggest challenge any of them have ever faced-to end all magic for ever This epic book is about their journey to the ends of america where they will have to beat all magical beings to end all magic. To end dark magic, they have to get rid of the good ones as well. They gather all the good magicians and good witches and wizards They start science and the more people believe in science, the less magic happens. So, little girls and boys,if you want America to be like disney world, all you have to do is quit going to school and don't learn any science.

The Dallas Police

A private detective works with a bumbling police force to solve crimes. the conclusion is that the detective is arrested and changed with the murder. The last chapter shows that it is the police force that is corrupt and pretending to be bumbling but is really corrupt. there are sequels to the story, where the detective change but the town stays the same.

A greater holmes

a detective whose unconscious sets up crimes so that he has a challenge to big enough to solve for his consious.

The nile

A detective flies to a small town to figure out who murdered two women, up in the mountains during a winter storm so the roads are blocked. He has 5 really good candidates and goes through them one at a time till all of them are excluded. He finally realizes that it is the mayor of the town that killed the women and placed blame on the 5 people. He gets all 5 people together with the mayor with the story that he will reveal the killer. When he finally does, the 5 people take the mayor and take him to jail. The judge comes in from another city and brings everyone in the next morning so they can decide how they would plea. The detective and 5 people give all the evidence, but then the towns people come up and talk about how great the mayor is. The judge says that the mayor probably killed the two women but that what the five people did was much worse (they brought in the detective and brought attention from the outside) so the judge releases the mayor and tells the town people to deal with the five. The detective flees the small town by escaping dangerously across a river while he sees 6 crosses built and 5 people hanging on them. Da Da Da

8/13 the well

The story of a well in a village that is much deeper than people thought it was. Every day they drink out of the well and people in the village don't get sick. They are attacked by a neighboring village and many come to the well with deep knife wounds and they are healed after they drink the water. An anthropologist who is studying the people group becomes intrigued and looks into it, but of course everyone is hush hush, as the well has to be a secret so that no other village knows about it. All he finds out is that the well is hundreds of years old and the healing has been going on for just as long. He gets really intrigued when the old men of the village are told to be hundreds of years old themselves. He finally gets a team of researchers together to rappel down the well and find out what is going on.

Mobster Detective

A new gangster takes over the crime of a major city, maybe new york. He realizes that every time there is a famous murderer who isn't caught, the police put more pressure on crime and it hurts his business. He sends his best general to become a detective and catch criminals that make the news paper. His general can use any technique, intimidation, torture, whatever but has to end up finding out who the criminal is and leading the police to the criminal in a way that no one, not police or criminal, knows his role in what happened. Every week we see the story of the crime, and watch the general and the police go back and forth till the general gives to the police the path to catching the criminal. Because of this, the police force in this town is getting great press and the focus is not on crime but other issues when the election comes up.

The path of killers

4 murders, every other day, in 4 different towns, all strangled, are finally linked together. The task force in charge of finding the serial killer or killers quickly find some clues. Still not having any idea who the killer is, they come up with the idea that he is not killing people he knows but strangers with no desire to steal or do anything to them. They are forced to find a pattern in the killings and anticipate the next one to catch the killer. A fifth killing on the 9th day brings more clues and the sixth killing on the 11th day confirms their pattern. They prepare to catch the killer on the 13th day, and someone shows up, exactly where they expected him to. They tell him to freeze but he ignores them and attempts to strange his target. He is shot multiple times but somehow escapes. Most of the police think he will change his pattern after being caught, or go back to finish the job of the last one, but a few follow it anyway to the next potential target. The killer arrives again and again is shot while escaping. But this time they get proof (I don't know how yet) that the killer is not human. Eventually they find out he is an alien and he has lost communication with the rest of his species. They realize that every murder is broadcast over satellite and that the name of the victim, the date and city the victim is from is all part of a message set back to his people. He is killing to communicate. Eventually the police break the code. He is transmitting whether or not the earth is a good planet to gather resources from, and if it is, the aliens would attack. When the police finally figure out how to catch the killer and accomplish it, they realize that the pattern points to communicating that the aliens should come. The police realize that they have to kill 4 more people in 4 different cities to continue the communication and let the aliens pass our planet by.

The restaurant 8/10 Story #4

This family lives next door to a restaurant, and the restaurant is always empty except for people coming in for around 5 minutes in the morning. The daughter of the family grows up next to the restaurant and, being a precocious child, starts to visit. She finds that the family that operates the restaurant seems to live there, as even in the middle of the night there is always a light on and someone in the back working. When she goes into the restaurant they are friendly but don't seem desperate, which is what she assumed. They make great food but refuse to take her money. She is a year older than the youngest son of the restaurant. They go to school together and become great friends. He always has really nice clothes and gets picked up in a really nice car from school, but never by anyone in his family, because they are always at the restaurant. She tries to ask her friend what is the secret, but her friend, whose first language is not English, seemed to not understand the question One night when she is in her room at her house, her parents have people over and she overhears her dad talking about the restaurant. The adults come to the conclusion that they have to be gangsters or drug dealers. She thinks this must be right, but it doesn't seem to fit her friend, who is so kind and moral. The truth is actually much scarier, because it is not drugs they are selling but rather they are making food all the time and sending it through a portal. Where the portal goes....

Story 5

This is a murder mystery. Chapter one the killer stalking someone. Chapter two is the police finding the body. Chapter three is the killer hiding and trying to hide the evidence. Chapter 4 is the police finding evidence and a trail. It goes back and forth every other chapter as the police almost find him over and over and each time he escapes. Finally the police track him down and are just about to arrest him when he is killed by the real killer, who was tracking the case in the news and with a police scanner. He was spotted by the real killer and was running from him the entire time, not the police. Throughout the story you realize that everything the killer was doing was to save his own life, not run from the police

Story 3 "To Read"

A young girl grows up in an upper class, over educated home. She shows good intelligence and seems to be maturing well, but when her classmates start to read, she is unable to catch up. Her parents and teachers try many different things, but she strangely brings up words not on the page. Her parents get her a reading specialist, who is surprised to see that she understands all the letters and even the words. But when she is asked to read she gets stuck. So the teacher hands her a doctor suess book and asked her to read. The girl says "which book?" The teacher said the doctor suess book and the girl is able to read it. The teacher is so surprised by her question the girl asked that she thinks about it all night and even has a dream about it. The next day the same thing happens. The teacher decides to have her read "the other book" and the girl surprisingly reads an entirely different book, this one about Dr suess the person, actually Theodor Geisel,his difficult life in the depression, his rejection many times as an author. The teacher was amazed. This girl didn't have a reading problem, at least a normal one. She had a problem of finding a story beneath the words.

Family Tree

This is the story of one of the very first European families in america. They live in Virginia, on a big piece of land and struggle with everyone else in their village. The family myth is that the elder of the family planted an oak tree in a field by the house to celebrate the birth of his son in their 5th year in Virginia. Soon afterwards the baby dies and is buried under the oak. The families fortunes improve and soon they are buying up more and more land, within a generation are the largest landowners in Virginia. The story of the family is retold by a mother-in-law to the bride of the oldest son in 2000. Everything about the family is told in correlation with the oak. The family had to abandon the farm during the civil war and the tree almost died. A stray bullet hits the tree in the revolutionary war happened a week of the heir dying. Every birth is written into a new branch, every death is written on the trunk. When members of the family move away, they always take an acorn with them, to feel connected with home. One year a huge storm hits and the tree is hit by lightning. The family splits but then finally recovers when the tree recovers. Finally the tree starts to die

Story #1-Sky Scrapper Romance 8/7

I imagine this story in the middle of a chicago. Workers had just left a new office building the night before. That night there is a huge crack and people run around and see that the abandoned building is shaking. Then moving. Then it seems to stand up as if it has legs. It sways to the east and then to the west and then heads north. 8 blocks away an old, abandoned building responds to the crashes with a crack of her own. Old bricks fall away as she sturdies herself up on her legs and heads toward the lake. The two buildings head toward each other, seemingly on a collision course. Police sirens and shrieks of fear, but the buildings do not stop to eat anyone. They meet up on the beach, but not to battle. They stop and wait. And we wait. And they sit for long enough that even the sirens stop as they seem to stare at each other. Then they turn toward the water and walk together into the see, walking till they disapear into the depths of the lake of michigan