Totally Awesome Stories

Story 1:

Dwight lives in the Mojave desert by himself, very far away from civilization or other people, and he likes it that way. But he needs something to care for. He is trying to grow a plant, but it is not going well and it is making him sad. He waters it and gives it good soil, he even pets it, but it still looks wilted and depressed. One day, an alien craft visits his tiny shack and drops off three orbs. They look to be made of dark green glass. These orbs appear to be very much alive and each have their own personality, and when they see that Dwight is sad, they instantly make the plant grow big and strong, and Dwight is happy. But when the orbs leave when their ship comes to pick them up, the plant goes back to the way it was.

***Key parts of this would be an overly small shack that Dwight lives in (too small for even him to git in), a simple desert environment, and the orbs looking mysterious, but very much alive and with individuality.

Story 2:

A boy sits in his dark room with his face right up against his bright computer screen (or watching TV). The only visible lights are the streaks coming off of the screen around his head making him a silhouette, like he is in front of a projector, and the blue moonlight coming in through the window. As he seems to be enthralled by his virtual world, the power goes out. There is just moonlight for a few seconds, then power comes back on. This happens a few more times, and he is frustrated, so he investigates. He finds a mischievous raccoon on the roof plugging in and unplugging the power to the house. The raccoon jumps on his face, he struggles and falls off the roof, and then he wakes up, realizing the whole thing was a dream.


***I am very interested in how the lighting could be done for this since most of it would be at night. Also because the computer screen would need some unique effects to make it look as intense as I image it.
I was originally thinking that rather than making the whole thing the result of a raccoon and also a dream, I would just have him deal with the power outage by building a generator and making his own power.

EDIT: A brief concept render of what I envision the screen and boy looking like (this would be in his room). The lighting would be flickering and changing color in streaks (as if he was playing a game or watching a movie). The idea is for it to be dream-like. Game/movie content is irrelevant:

And here is a representation of what I see the desert scene and the three glass orbs of the first story looking like: