It's been said that the "What if...?" is the most powerful question for inspiring fictional writers to do what they do best-- write fiction, of course! And I find I have some of my craziest "what ifs" while I am driving.
So late last night, while I was driving on a back road of some small town near the south border of North Carolina, I had an epiphany of sorts, or more of a flood of ideas, scary ideas. I pondered the questions of "What if a person came running out of one of the many corn fields I passed by, covered in blood and screaming for help?" Would I stop and offer to help them or try to swerve around them? "What if I saw a humanoid creature running behind my car?" Would I stop to see what it would do or assume that it was chasing me and attempt to outrun it? "What if there was a man hiding in my backseat?" or "What if that green tinted light in the sky that suddenly moved and disappeared was a UFO?"
All of these questions and more went through my head (including "What if Jigsaw, the antihero of the Saw movies, were a Batman villain) and every possible choice I could come up with for each scenario. I guess it's pretty obvious by now that sometimes I even scare myself, but that's the fun of doing what I do. Hopefully, I can make something of all of these musings one day without having to actually experience them. But while I am coming up with the worst possible scenarios I know that the best is yet to com
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