Short Story ideas involving a blank package?

Question

So I want to write a short story (about 1,500-2,000 words), sci-fi or abstract about someone who recieves a blank package on their doorstep. I was thinking maybe it could be a middle-aged woman who receives it, then gets obsessed with it, but how could I make that into a story with a plot? I don't think I want the box to be opened, but I'm open to all ideas. Please, no aliens/fantasy creatures!

Ideas please :)

Answer 1

If I come up with any ideas, I keep them for my own stories. I don't expect anyone to hand me plots and ideas.

Answer 2

I don't like this sort of request, because I don't understand how anyone can have a problem finding somewhere to take this to, given the way we have ideas shoved down our throat if we so mmuch as dare turn on the telly. The box could have been dropped off by a spy in mortal jeopardy of his life. I remember this episode of THE PERSUADERS (Roger Moore and Tony Curtis) where Tony's character gets handcuffed to this case, and they get it X-rayed, and Moore's character is anayzing it withn an expert, while Tony is at home, fighting for his life against multiple Bad Guys, who so want that case. The expert concludes that the case contains a bomb, hooked to a "trembler mechanism," that is armed 30 seconds after that case is opened. After that time, "the touch of a butterfly's wings" is enough to set it off. Cut to Tony, who is at that time using the case to bash in the head of the Bad Guy he is fighting (without setting it off, because it isn't armed). This is one of the funniest scenes ever. You gotta use it, somehow! The little old lady could have all sorts of trouble because she received that package, doesn't know what to do with it- whether to open it- no- let someone else do it- no, nobody else must do it. Gets funny reactions when she tries to weigh it, stethoscope it. maybe she can fluroscope it, or something. Maybe it might move around when she's not looking at it. It could be too warm, or too cold. The police may come and take it away, and she never gets to know what it was.

Answer 3

What if the old lady thinks it's a bomb or something horrible in the package since it is unmarked, so she imagines all these crazy stories of what's inside. But a week or so later, the old man from across the street sees her throw it away (because she can't deal with it anymore) and he becomes sad because it was a gift that he sent her with a note professing how he liked her. So he thinks she rejected him.

Answer 4

perhaps the package contains £20,000 in bundles of £1,000 and its part of the proceeds from a bank robbery 20 years ago, and was intended for a previous owner of the house, but the lady tries to track down the rest of the money.



simples....