- small american town: geographically unimportant except that it can’t be on the coast. the small towns on the american west and east coasts have their own feelings to them separate from the ambiguous landlocked ‘might as well be anywhere’ towns. good settings for stories involving children, especially in relation to ‘weird’/’creepy’ adults. has a degrading effect on every sexual act referred to in the story.
- hospital: eventually the narrator or the protagonist or someone will mention the hospital’s futile goal to stave off death for as long as possible though its onset in the patient is inevitable. the protagonist is likely not the patient, but the patient’s lover or family member or maybe a more interesting relation, like the two were detached emotionally but were involved in drug trafficking together.
- nature: here we are given the opportunity to experiment with ‘society’ or something because we can extract as many characters as we want from clusters of society (cities, the internet, etc). also provides, probably inevitably, for insights on what nature means (something we probably have no interest in answering because it’s a false question to ask). also good for adventure stories if you want.
- boat in the middle of the ocean: another way to extract society, but not on individual levels, rather through stratified groups. the common story of class, gender and power arises when the rich cruise goer falls in love with the poor deckhand (or stow away). this has happened in more than ‘titanic’ but i can’t remember the name of the other story/movie/something. this one could be realized more; for example, themed cruises, gay cruises, children’s (disney) cruises, etc and isn’t necessarily destined for a class analysis. for example, a man finds himself on a gay cruise off the coast of florida only to realize that all the other passengers are made of cardboard, or on the third day of a hectic-as-per-usual children’s themed cruise a drowning man is saved and brought aboard only to bring some occult misfortune with him.
- the city at night: this can be any large city in north america regardless of geography. unlike small towns, proximity to the ocean doesn’t matter. the night is perverse and murky. drugs are done at night, as well as dancing and sex, as well as murder, as well as bad decisions. a person at night could stand still and be halted by a phone call or something glimmering under a street lamp or seeing a person they used to know for a ghostly moment before a shadow moves or something.
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