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A bounty hunter who foresees danger just before it happens holds patrons of a sleazy bar hostage in order to trap a killer with mental superpowers from an alternate reality.
Okay, this is getting interesting. I like the idea that he has psychic radar that can detect impending jeopardy (but not good fortune?) However, I think "mental superpowers" -- that can cover a lot of territory; I suggest it needs to be more specific. Maybe something that makes their psychic powersRead more
Okay, this is getting interesting. I like the idea that he has psychic radar that can detect impending jeopardy (but not good fortune?) However, I think “mental superpowers” — that can cover a lot of territory; I suggest it needs to be more specific.
Maybe something that makes their psychic powers complementary and contrasting; that is, whatever the protagonist has, the antagonist doesn’t. And vice versa.
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>>it may seem a little magical. Yeah, it certainly is a convenient prop. I like post-apocalyptic worlds where everything goes to hell in a handbasket, where characters have no recourse to technological crutches and gimmicks. They are forced to prevail the old fashioned way: by their wits. But it's yRead more
>>it may seem a little magical.
Yeah, it certainly is a convenient prop. I like post-apocalyptic worlds where everything goes to hell in a handbasket, where characters have no recourse to technological crutches and gimmicks. They are forced to prevail the old fashioned way: by their wits.
But it’s your story.
I gotta quibble on calling the antagonist “psychotic”. Technically, it seems to me, he’s more likely to be a psychopath than a psychotic. That is a distinction with a difference. Psychosis is a disorder so dysfunctional in terms hallucinations and an inability to engage in reality testing that is unlikely that he would be able to pursue her for any extended period. In contrast, psychopaths are fairly lucid, just mad as hell and not going to take it anymore.
See lessIn a post apocalyptic pandemic world a teenage girl trying to reach the safety of quarantine takes refuge in a valley, only to be thrust into a fight for her life with a man willing to kill her to get what he wants
>>it may seem a little magical. Yeah, it certainly is a convenient prop. I like post-apocalyptic worlds where everything goes to hell in a handbasket, where characters have no recourse to technological crutches and gimmicks. They are forced to prevail the old fashioned way: by their wits. But it's yRead more
>>it may seem a little magical.
Yeah, it certainly is a convenient prop. I like post-apocalyptic worlds where everything goes to hell in a handbasket, where characters have no recourse to technological crutches and gimmicks. They are forced to prevail the old fashioned way: by their wits.
But it’s your story.
I gotta quibble on calling the antagonist “psychotic”. Technically, it seems to me, he’s more likely to be a psychopath than a psychotic. That is a distinction with a difference. Psychosis is a disorder so dysfunctional in terms hallucinations and an inability to engage in reality testing that is unlikely that he would be able to pursue her for any extended period. In contrast, psychopaths are fairly lucid, just mad as hell and not going to take it anymore.
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