Seeing how little progress I have made on the Elf story, this may not come to anything. But, I'm thinking of a girl—maybe a little older, perhaps a woman—who loves animals.
We probably all have a soft spot for animals—I certainly do! But this girl has come to think that she loves animals more than her fellow-humans. She doesn't want to be known to be an animal-lover; her town is being overrun by abandoned pets, and she fears that she might be persecuted for being animal- friendly.
She has just two pets: a cat, and a dog. The beginning of the story will be about how lonely she is. Perhaps one of the pets is very old, and passes away, and her loneliness becomes almost unbearable.
One of her characteristics (a unique feature) is her compassion. She becomes furious at her fellow-citizens for creating this crisis of feral animals, and for her fear that drives her love for animals into hiding. Every once in a while, she sees a litter of puppies, abandoned on the street, and she wants to rescue them, but public hostility to pets is so high that if she's seen, she'll be shunned.
One day, she sees a woman, unconscious, on the side of the road. This is different; helping people is still not seen as something as 'anti- social' as helping puppies. She calls for help, and the woman is revived. She tries to fade out of the picture, but the woman hunts her down, and expresses her gratitude.
That's as far as I've got. I've got some ideas, but they're still fairly vague!
Wow, I had forgotten that I had started a story about a lady professor at a college, whose boyfriend dies, leaving her his car. But some company calls up and says that the car has to be returned. The professor loses her temper, and drives off to California.
There's considerably more, but this story fragment is hard to summarize!
Kay
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