Thread 24689325

Post a fake novel title and write a short summary for the title posted above yours
>The Dance of Old Neptune

Why bother with /lit/ards when you could just use AI to do this for you?

>>24689652
It's just a game, not fishing for ideas.

>>24689325 (OP)
>The Dance of Old Neptune
27 years old John John Davidjohn attends summer parties in the french Calanques de Marseille at night. There he meets new friends and among them, a girl by the name of Samsa. Samsa dances with them, and in the feverish nights, always ends up vanishing. Unable to forget her strange movements and magnetic gaze, John decides to follow Samsa in the depths of night, to figure out exactly what that strange, beautiful creature is doing while everyone is partying.

>>24689832
Also : Grateful Dead in The Loft

>>24689840
16 year old Kaos Jackson is fed up with her world and travels back in time to the year 1967 hoping to experience groovy peace and love of the hippie era but soon finds she doesn't fit in as well as she expected and not everyone is all about free love and good vibes...

>>24689849
Also
>The Cable Car Over My Head

>>24689798
>its just a game
You can still have fun by doing this with an AI
>not fishing for ideas
I never suggested that, but now I think that is your real goal with this thread

>>24689863
The fact that you questioned why I wasn't using AI implies that you weren't aware that these threads have been made before and that it's just done for fun, so naturally I assumed you thought I was making this thread for something like writing inspo
Most of what gets posted is inane anyway

>>24689894
How long have you been making this threads?
>Most of what gets posted is inane anyway
I mean, if this are for fun. What else were you expecting?

>>24689947
Periodically for a little over a year, I guess.

>>24689952
>a year
And you still haven't come out with a good name for this thread? grim

>>24689993
I said periodically. It's not a general.

>>24689325 (OP)
Is that Ted Mosby?

>>24690008
Sounds like cope to me

>>24689325 (OP)
“Dance of old Neptune”

Short story: two men on a crab boat (the boat is named the Neptune) in Newfoundland are lost at sea and are running out of food and about to starve to death. One is clearly analogous to Jesus and the other is analogous to Judas. There’s some philosophical discourse between the two here and it’s largely boring. The one man offers his now frail, almost dead body for the other man to eat and survive (representing Jesus offering his flesh to his followers) and the other man kills the guy with a hammer but before he can eat the body he is rescued by a Japanese whaling vessel named the Valhalla (representing pagan master morality as superior to the weak spineless Christian ideology of the dead Jesus fisherman).

>>24689840
Grateful Dead in the loft

>autistic teenager Jean Shmallprey is obsessed with the band the Grateful Dead much to the chagrin of her family. A coming of age story basically ensues like Muriel’s wedding but replace abba with the Grateful Dead - shmallprey meets a new lesbian gf and they move out but she betrays her or something and they get back together as friends at the end

>>24689853
>cable car over my head

Romance set in a Swiss ski resort. Johann Kriegenkommen is a twice divorced accountant who sprained his leg going down a mountain and he falls in love with the elusive French speaking nurse Clare. Clare is sent away to another hospital and since johann has no name to go by he thinks all is lost but at the end he is reunited with her when she sprains her leg outside his office.

The Tenth Coelacanth

i love these threads, i stole the idea and posted it a couple times myself. thanks for posting anon

>>24691328
>The Tenth Coelacanth

As an investment banker and avid numismatist and notaphile, Jesse Cohen's life is money. First quarter, 2006, Jesse is gifted a 1000 franc note from Comoros by Mary Beth, his secretary. Initially, he's not particularly moved by the design on the note: largely blue, with a coelacanth on the front and man in a boat on the back... but, none the less, into his collection of bank denominations from different countries it goes.

Over the course of four days, however, things change. Mary Beth's birthday is coming up Jesse wants to resurrect their relationship. Jesse sees coelacanths everywhere, a special on TV, a plush at the store, coelacanth wallpaper... He revisits the Comoros bill and, as a member of the International Bank Note Society, decides to vote for it as bank note of the year. On that fourth day, he makes a reservation for a birthday dinner for two at Le Bernardin.

new title:

>Locusts and Wild Honey

>>24689863
>brain rotten AI apologist bewildered by the idea of playing silly games with people for fun

>>24691980
>Locusts and Wild Honey
A woman moves to the countryside with her new husband. She slowly grows tired of her peaceful life and begins torturing all bugs she finds - tearing of their legs and such. She feels immense guilt over this but cannot stop as it gives her a feeling of power.

Numerous times, she almost gets caught. Lots of adrenaline. At the end, she admits to her husband about what she has been doing and he laughs in her face about her being so panicked about it. She realizes he's not the sensitive man she thought him to be, but resigns as she realizes she doesn't have the heart to divorce.

New title:
>A sick, sad kind of empathy

>>24691994
>AI apologist
I asked because OP used an AI generated pic

>>24689325 (OP)
A man at the end of his life reflects on the passing of it and both his achievements and failurs and regrets before commiting suicide

>>24691328
ten people take a trip across a rover boat but suddenly wake up to find themselves in the middle of the sea with the capitan cabin locked shut

Sea Salted Tea

>>24692119
>A sick, sad kind of empathy
A therapist (who as a teenager had his own therapist; the experience made him want to become one) is incapable of keeping his relationship with his clients professional. He thinks forming personal connections with his clients makes him a better therapist, but when a longtime client confides in him that they don't find any purpose in life any longer and want to commit suicide, he supports their decision to die.

New title:
>I Love You, Baby Bird

Snide and Garrulous

>>24693276
What happens when UNHINGED backwoods colonists dump the prized cargo of our WACKY protagonist, the merchant Gaylord Glassknob, into the sea? He gets creative, that's what! Crack open the latest adventure from BARTON-ON-THAMES PUBLISHING HOUSE to find out how master Glassknob turns spilled tea into a salty delicacy, keeps his creditors in the East India Company off his back, and saves the Empire along the way! With over 100 pages of family friendly laughs and action packed thrills that celebrate the British spirit, SEA SALTED TEA is sure to be your favorite book this summer.

>>24693288
Daniel Snide and Ben "The Garrulous" Porter are two confidence men travelling 1930s America. Follow them through their highs and lows and wild in-betweens as they deal with vengeful poodles, black communist gangs and one maddening heartstuck robber barron's daughter.


>Push The Silence In

>>24693297
The coming of age story of a 32 year old closted homosexual in 1953 as he adopts the persona of a 15 year old dumb and deaf boy to hide from authorities at an elite New England school for deaf children, becoming deeply entangled with the isolationist deaf community.

>A Business for the Mad

>>24693297
>Push The Silence In

Hospitalized during her infancy, Aria's hearing has never been completely perfect. With no hearing at all in her right ear, her left has only slight function. Still, she's no stranger to bouts of tinnitus and phantom voices.

Raised by her grandparents, she spent her late teen years and early adulthood aware she'd one day bury them and have to clear out their estate. Now, at 27, she's staying in the house she grew up in once more, her grandparent's put to their long rest.

Her grandfather's instruments beat memories of his pressure for her to overcome her disability and become a great musician. The silent house feels cold and indifferent, empty. Due to Aria's being alone and her poor hearing, she fills the house with loud music, the TV on near blaring and any noise throughout the house she can to stave off the quiet... and the phantom voices that chatter when silence pushes in.

The neighbor, a sinewy veteran, doesn't take kindly to his hard earned solitude being disrupted...

new title:
>Lies Antiphonal

>>24694745
>Lies Antiphonal
A fragmented, post-modern narrative akin to Woolf's "The Waves," wherein several competing unreliable and unnamed new hires jockey for power in a white-shoe law firm that's known for defending corporations accused of crimes against humanity. Faux legal documents feature prominently.

New title;
>VERY FAST DEATH FACTOR

>>24689832
i can sorta get behind the concept but what's the significance of the names here? 6/10

>>24689849
i like the idea as maybe a stoner comedy turned horror/thriller, odd name for the MC though 5.5/10

>>24690191
would read but spelling out the analogies takes away from what could've been... 7/5/10

>>24690196
would not read the Grateful Dead one, sorry

the cable car one could be good but is lacking in detail to catch me

ratings continued

>>24691980
>>24694745
these two are mine so skip

>>24693280
might read but needs more detail

>>24694783
sounds intriguing but i do wish there was more to the concept