The news this week has been coming hot and heavy, so there’s lots of possibilities for missing things. Here are some items that we’ve read that we thought all y’all might could be interested in, too. And, you should read them, too, because there are plenty of novel plots just there for the picking! Your novel writing pivot is just waiting for you to write these best-sellers before other dirty bastard steals your story from you!

Impending Space Disaster

In case you were searching about for a plot for your international best-selling disaster book, science provides a novel idea: crashing near Earth satellites falling like dominoes in some kind of complex chain-reaction. Just another way we’re putting large segments of our population at risk in pursuit of profits. And, Elon Musk wants to put A MILLION satellites in orbit!

2.8 Days to Disaster: Low Earth Orbit Could Collapse Without Warning

Company for RFK’s Brain Worm

RFK, Jr’s brain worm is getting a whole host of friends moving into their neighborhood like Sesame Street meets a degenerative disease. I’m sure he’ll declare this latest threat to our health to be entirely our fault and if we’d just buy more supplements and follow his inverted food pyramid — apt metaphor for what the Health Department and entire country has become? — the oligarchs would get wealthier.

Scientists call for urgent action as dangerous amoebas spread globally

Billionaire Worries

What does keep your neighborhood billionaire up at night? Apparently, Trump’s tariffs! How about that! Trump’s tariffs top the list of billionaire worries. Then comes, major geopolitical conflicts! How about that! Trump’s threatening Iran AND Greenland, threatens NATO, ago done Ukraine, and invades Venezuela. Third on the list? Policy uncertainty! Oooh our very model of a modern major jenius erratic behavior keeps the billionaire class up wondering what he’ll post next on social media? And, fourth, higher inflation! So Trump’s tariffs and his persecution of Jerome Powell, Fed Chair, to get lower interest rates — and runaway inflation for a decade — are keeping our billionaires up.

What do billionaire worries have in common? Trump and his economy

What’s Worrying Billionaires the Most in World?

Space Microbes… Number Four Will Leave You Queasy

Okay, so a disaster novel isn’t your thing, how ’bout a SciFi bioterror thriller that could rival Alien? Well, sir, science has you covered. The geniuses in the ivy towers decided to grow bacteria and bacteriophages in space just to see what would happen!

They grew them together on earth and on the ISS. Then, they compared their mutations. What could go wrong, right? Well, it turns out that the space based phages became super hunter-killers of the earth-based bacteria. Phew! Bullet dodged. So, maybe no novel, hunh.

Microbes in Space Mutated And Developed a Remarkable Ability

One Person’s Bad Omen is Another’s Treasure, amirite?

I’m sure there is a novel plot in here somewhere, too. It could be a fun rom-com with a unique meet cute, a Bollywood extravaganza, a docudrama, a creature feature. The possibilities are endless! This story has it all! Bad omens! Bone swallowing! Storks! An army of women! Mad wild rescues! A come back story!

There is a stork in India that is a carion eater and swallows bones, which can distort their throats in most gruesome ways. It was long considered a bad omen, so people tried to drive them away and destroy their nests and what not, you know, like we do. With everything else, the stork was driven to near extinction.

Along comes an ornithologist who loves the birds and begins talking to the women in the surrounding villages about how great the birds are. And, what do you know, she convinces some of them to begin helping the birds. In true Ponzi scheme style, these women each recruit more women and bing-o bang-o before you know it you’ve got 20,000 women out kicking down doors and dragging evil doers from their beds in the middle of the night for destroying the birds or huge fabulous dance numbers. Take your pick.

From bad omen to national treasure: The rare bone-swallower stork saved by a female army

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