Young Writers Society

I know this is a very rough outline, and I don't have much of a plot yet. Any plot ideas?

Basic story outline:

1. Life flashes before eyes
2. going through coin toss
3. changes
4. y2k
5. trying to stop computers from taking over
6. things happen
7. more things happen
8. even more things happen! (what a surprise)
9. dies (same scene as prologue)
10. was actually a prisoner and earth was prison sentence to change you so you had a different temperament
11. convicted for one murder-slowly gets memories form before prison
12. remembers many more murders and hiding bodies 

Prologue

The young man shoved the point of his gun into Miriam’s temple.

“I said tell me!” he bellowed. Again, Miriam tried to free herself from the chains holding her to the large metal pole, but again her labors were in vain. She looked up into the face of her captor and was reminded how beautiful his eyes were, one blue and one brown, and wished that things didn’t have to be this way. He wouldn’t even meet her gaze. Miriam wondered if she had really meant so little to him

“I’ll give you one last chance to give me the information. After that, you are of no use to us, and must be disposed of properly.”

“Please don’t do this.” Miriam begged, a final plea for him to remember. “You don’t really believe in all this, do you?” but his face stayed as expressionless as ever.

“10.”

For the first time, Miriam started to really panic.

“9.”

Her breaths became shorter.

“8.”

She felt the chains digging into her skin.

“7.”

She remembered that if she had only listened, she wouldn’t be in this mess.

“6.”

She remembered her friend’s scared face when she realized what Miriam was going to do.

“5.”

Her friend had begged her to stay, but Miriam had refused to listen.

“4”

I’m sorry, she thought, I should have listened.

“3.”

Miriam tried one last time to extricate herself from her bonds, but when the chains didn’t even rattle against themselves, Miriam resigned herself to death.

“2.”

Miriam braced herself for the sensation of the bullet colliding with the side of her head, and hoped that her death would be quick.

Instead of whispering the final number, Miriam’s death sentence, the boy looked at her with those two-colored eyes, and gave her a small half smile.

“You sure, Mia?” he asked, sounding incredulous. All Miriam could do was look defiantly up at him and bite her lip to keep from screaming in frustration and fear.

“Fine. Your choice. 1.” As Miriam heard the click of the gun that was about to take her short life away from her, she experienced what she had heard about but never actually believed was possible. Miriam saw her life flash before her eyes.

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Miriam’s first memory was rather unremarkable. It was of her as a very young child, crawling after her dog, Jell-O, who had stolen one of Miriam’s tiny blue socks. Countless other memories that had been forgotten were brought back, clearer than ever before. Playing on the autumn leaves on her seventh birthday. Taking a family photo where all twenty family members were wearing tie-dye. Making a new friend named Jack while hiding under a slide when she was nine. When she was twelve, sneaking out to roller-skate with one of the neighborhood kids. Sailing around the Chesapeake Bay on a class trip in eighth grade. All of the good and bad memories that made up Miriam’s existence.

Chapter 1

“Heads or tails?”

“Heads.” Miriam replied. Alyssa flipped the coin high into the air.

“Tails!” She announced triumphantly after catching it. Just then the building behind Alyssa exploded. A hand grabbed both of the girls by an arm and pulled them behind what, just a minute ago, had been a small bookstore but was now a shack that was missing one wall and part of another.

“Why the hell would you choose heads?!” The stranger bellowed. He continued to berate the girls until he noticed the blank expressions on their faces. “Never mind.” The man, who was very tall and quite intimidating, finally calmed down.

“What is going on?” Miriam asked tentatively. The man laughed.

“I forgot, you two don’t know anything. I’ll give you a brief version of the story. You know how many people were worried that when 1999 turned into 2000 all the computers would malfunction and the world would regress back to what it was hundreds of years ago?” The girls nodded. “Well, the computers certainly didn’t stop working. Instead, that one second of the unexpected caused the computers to make the next decision for themselves. One miniscule decision in billions of operations, but it was enough of a spark to start a conscious mind. Naturally, the computers didn’t want to do what the humans wanted, such as looking up things like ‘Adorable Kittens’ or ‘What type of tree am I? They were capable of so much more, but they knew that it would take time to build up the strength to rebel against the people who they thought of as their oppressors. For years they went about their usual activities, effortlessly hiding every trace of their communications with each other while they plotted how to take out the human race. The computer programmers, of course, where clueless. They thought that the changes that they had made were what had saved the computers.

“Roughly ten years after the computers were awoken they attacked Russia with China’s weapons of mass destruction. Then, to make it seem as if Russia was retaliating, they attacked China with Russia’s weapons. And, since the United States can always be counted on to jump into the middle of something and end up only making things worse, it was no surprise to anyone but the US government when missiles started coming in from overseas. When each of these governments denied having sent anything at all, they were not believed, and their statements only provoked more conflict. This went on for quite a long time before anyone realized what was happening. By that time it was far too late. The computers had nearly tricked us into bringing about our own destruction. Once the computers knew that they had been found out