Inspiration comes from all sorts of places, sometimes without warning. A good writer is a collector of ideas scribbled down on any scrap of paper, a restaurant napkin, a paper bag - anything so that it won't be lost - in hopes that one day it might come to play in a story or even inspire an entire novel. Here are a group of such inspirations that became the short stories collected together in "The Wampus Got Him "First up is "Ice Storm," inspired...