Story Planning: King Arthur

The thing that stuck out most to me about the story of king arthur is just how many weird things keep happening. I think there's a way to pull them all together into a story of very strange things occuring, maybe some guy has just gone through them all in a day and doesn't know how to handle it? or possibly a bunch of weird things keep happening in the same neighborhood

Things to consider: setting in a suburban neighborhood or setting in King Arthur's time

neighborhood fits with my portfolio theme and might be able to be used there if I like the story enough

King Arthur's England has the possibility of magic and giant creatures

magic and creatures could be used in a neighborhood setting but they fit more easily into arthur's kingdom. My other portfolio stories have magic though so I won't concern myself with that too much.

King Arthur: tending towards making him a good dude who's generally confused about his situation, he didn't expect to be king or to encounter the lady of the lake, his best friend got trapped under a boulder, some guy in his house gets killed by a dream ghost.
If set in a neighborhood would probably change up the nature of what happens.

Lake could be a pond in the public park, lady of the lake could be some weirdo swimming about in it or even a tree branch from a fallen tree sticking up out of it with something caught in it

Another possibility is i could focus the whole story around just one of those strange incidents. I could write a short little story about Merlin who's convinced of his own death and very content to let it happen. That might end up being kind of sad.
he's an unusually morose guy who has accepted he will die soon but as of yet hasn't. After a series of close calls (getting hit by a car, nearly drowning, setting his house on fire) he finally meets his end by... being buried in some way. Might end up being morbid but I think the direction that could go.

(Merlin the wizard. Credit: Andy / flickr)

King Arthur: Tales of the Round Table by Andrew Lang