A Story Idea Each Day for a Month — Day 9

This is the 15th year in a row I’ve run this series in April.

Today’s story idea: “Hollywood woman convicted of running delivery service dubbed ‘Uber, but for drugs.’”

A Hollywood woman was convicted Tuesday of running a lucrative drug delivery business out of her apartment, with a jury finding her responsible for supplying fentanyl that caused multiple overdoses in 2020 and 2021.

Mirela Todorova, 36, stood trial beginning last month, accused of leading an operation prosecutors described as “Uber, but for drugs.” She was convicted on nine counts, including three charges of drug distribution that caused “serious bodily injury” in three nonfatal overdoses.

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DEA agents who searched her apartment said they found several stockpiles of plastic bowls containing colorful pills and powders — beside them, packing materials and kitchen scales with chalky residue. Ziploc bags of cash, labeled by amount, were tucked into bedside drawers and strewn about the floor.

Agents ultimately seized from the property about 944 grams of cocaine, 96 grams of MDMA, 90 grams of ketamine, mushrooms and various pills and capsules, including a discolored oxycodone pill that tested positive for fentanyl. They also confiscated nearly $9,000 in cash and Todorova’s iPhone, which prosecutors said stored “a daily journal of a drug owner operating a drug business.”

Evidence from Todorova’s iMessage and WhatsApp accounts showed she sent regularly updated drug menus to her drivers and clients, instructed Sei how to cook drugs in her apartment and demanded efficiency from other delivery drivers to maximize her profits, estimated at around $790,000.

This story brings to mind Pineapple Express.

And The Wolf of Wall Street.

Mix ’em up and you’ve got the movie Stupor. That’s the name our two “heroes” dub their drug delivery service. And who are our two heroes?

Well, not actually Beavis and Butt-Head — unless Paramount wants to buy the plot to Stupor as a film vehicle for the dumb-namic duo.

But you get the idea, right? Two drug addled dimbos unwittingly stumble upon a brilliant business plan … which brings them ungodly sums of money … makes them the life of Hollywood parties … and the object of a hit from a rival drug-dealing gang.

There’s my 9th story idea this month. What would you do with this concept?

Previous articles in this year’s series:

Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
Day 6
Day 7
Day 8

Here are links to previous series:

A Story Idea Each Day for a Month (2017)

A Story Idea Each Day for a Month (2018)

A Story Idea Each Day for a Month (2019)

A Story Idea Each Day for a Month (2020)

A Story Idea Each Day for a Month (2021)

A Story Idea Each Day for a Month (2022)

A Story Idea Each Day for a Month (2023)

A Story Idea Each Day for a Month (2024)

Note: The articles from 2010–2016 have corrupted URLs. I am in the process of cleaning those up.

Each day in April, I invite you to join me in comments to do some brainstorming. Take each day’s story idea and see what it can become when we play around with it. These are valuable skills for a writer to develop.

See you in RESPONSES to hear YOUR take on this story idea. And come back tomorrow for another Story Idea Each Day For A Month.