Today’s Random Prompt: Where would you be pleased to find yourself locked up overnight?
This question allows for many different approaches, all of which are potentially interesting. Jeff South already did a great post yesterday about being trapped in an elevator with a celebrity. I won’t parrot that approach except to say my answer is Stephen King so I could fanboy over his books and then pick his brain for writing advice.
Back in my drinking days, the easy answer to this question would have been either the Anheuser-Busch brewery or the Jack Daniel’s distillery, but as it turns out, I had my fill of both of those (and everything else) almost 30 years ago, so that’s out.
What about food, though? Meh, every place I’d want is really bad for my diabetes—Krispy Kreme, Cheesecake Factory, Ghirardelli Chocolates, Pizza Hut test kitchens. I’d eat myself into a hyperglycemic coma before the night was over. Hard pass.
So what’s left? I’ve always been interested in politics, and while a day in the Oval Office with Uncle Joe would certainly be interesting, the prompt doesn’t say I’m invisible or a fly on the wall, so I wouldn’t get the uncensored or declassified version of what it’s really like to be the president.
Based on these reflections, here’s where I’d like to be: the warehouse at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark where they crate up the ark and put it in rows with everything else. I want access to the secrets of history, the artifacts and articles that chronicle the real truth kept out of sight, the disseminations of history that inspire countless conspiracy theories and prevent us from knowing what the powers-that-be don’t want us to know.
The Kennedy assassinations, as well as MLK and Malcolm X—who did it? The truth about Roswell, UFOs, and alien contact. Who was really responsible for the 9/11 attacks, and when did the government know? I imagine that in addition to learning about the things we’re aware of, a warehouse like that would contain revelations that we couldn’t imagine, mind-boggling twists of reality that were previously incomprehensible.
There’s a place like that in my new novel, Siannon’s Promise, which is coming out in just a few days. I hope to have a definite release date by early next week, but in the meantime, I can tell you that the characters in the book find just such a wonderous place, and the things they discover are both wonderful and terrifying.
I wonder if the government has a warehouse like that in real life? I hope that’s the plot of Indiana Jones V.
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