Story Idea

One evening a long, long time ago, while staying at with my grandparents, I was playing with my uncle's typewriter and typed out the following story idea outlined in a Table of Contents of three books. I remember very little of the details behind the various chapters, but what I do recall was that it took place in a post-apocalyptic setting with the main character making his way home after surviving a plane crash.

In HOME BOUND, the main character survives a plane crash and find himself in a world turned upside-down. In the first chapter he has to survive a trek through the wilderness as he tries to make it to civilization, only to find that it has fallen. I forget what was going to happen in chapter two, but chapter three was where the hero is accused of some crime and has to face a joke of a trial. Obviously, the hero survives and continues, on foot, on the road back home.

Book 1: HOME BOUND

Chapter 1 - Survival
Chapter 2 - Friends will be Friends
Chapter 3 - A Day in Court
Chapter 4 - Highway Home

The hero makes it home to his rural town in chapter one of HOME FRONT, but finds out in chapter two that his wife had given up on him and was living with another man. The hero is given the job as the town sheriff in chapter three, and soon finds out that something is stalking the town and attacking its citizens in chapter four. In chapter five, the stalker--wearing some form of advanced tech power armor--wreaks havoc through the peaceful town but falls to the hero in the end. Unfortunately, his ex-wife and Johny are among the casualties from the battle.

Book 2: HOME FRONT

Chapter 1 - Honey, I'm Home
Chapter 2 - Here's Johny
Chapter 3 - A Gun and a Badge
Chapter 4 - Terror in the Night
Chapter 5 - Last Rights

I can't recall any details of what was to happen in BATTLE FRONT (originally FRONT LINE), other than the hero was going to be thrust into a war that he didn't want any part of. I remember that it was going to involve some mecha and other advanced weapons that were hinted at by the power armor from the previous story.

If I were to write it today it would have be more about the hero and the town fighting against some mercenary military force wanting to forcibly draft all the citizens to fight in some faceless battle. The town would fight back to maintain their independence and, in the end, set the building blocks for a new nation.

Book 3: BATTLE FRONT

Chapter 1 - War Stories
Chapter 2 - Role Call
Chapter 3 - This Land is My Land
Chapter 4 - Fortress
Chapter 5 - Battle Hymn

The thing I remember most of this was that I wanted to slowly bring in a lot of future tech in the form of power armor, robot tanks, and futuristic VTOL aircraft, while sticking with conventional firearms. No laser guns. I also wanted to eventually move into space.

I doubt I'll ever do anything with this, but at least I have it in a place I won't easily lose it.