Title: The Pallbearer.
Guy who serves as pallbearer for all his friends. Each time there’s a death, he gets the call.
Structure the story around an actual funeral/burial. As the reader experiences the funeral/burial in the present tense, the narrator/pallbearer recalls other ceremonies and the men he’s put in graves.
Stories about Mike Welch, Terry Sundby, et al. Ed Duffelmeyer’s skinny ear. Laughing like crazy when they buried Grandma, Dad’s mother. The crazy granny. He hadn’t gone to another funeral for forty years. And he wished it had been longer.
Maybe a twist ending… the dirt falls onto the casket as the narrator turns out to get buried himself. Visit a real funeral home. Observe a real funeral/burial. Setting could be Key West Cemetery.
I told you I didn’t feel good.
Title: Developing An Appreciation For Older Women.
Opening line. I am developing an appreciation for older women.
Setting: Florida. Soundtrack: Amazing Grace. Cool Water.
Hero learns to lust for older ladies. And appeals perhaps to The Bridges Of Madison County audience. A romantic fiction coupled with autobiographical memoir.
Don’t really have one idea here.
Some thoughts. Use the Florida material from previous trips. Tell tales re moving back into “mom’s house” pushing fifty. That’ll cramp your love life, trust me.
Although his mother had found a woman through the beauty parlor network. Which predates Match.com.
Make it a love letter to parents. Baby boomers, more and more losing their folks every day.
I could write this. I could. I really could.