My eleven favorite stories. Yes, a Yemassee's dozen is eleven...because I always get short-changed in life, lol
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Not sure why i originally wrote it, but it's pretty self-explanatory. i just wanted to capture what it feels like on quite mornings, that almost sadness to getting up so early, when it is cold and no one else is awake, trudging to work, wondering about the point of it all. it needs to be expanded it's too short, ends to quickly.
Bubbles was born, i believe in 2002. her first appearance was in "the granny paradox" where she went back in time to try to kill her grandmother in a "bubblesque" suicide, lol. the style of that story is quite different from any other i have written.
by the time this story was written, bubbles had matured somewhat, aged a few years, and was no longer, well, psychotic. bubbles' personality changes by story, though she is usually impetuous and impractical, here she is subdued, more resigned to her fate.
Sylvia plath wrote a poem called "ariel" and this tale is an amalgamation of that poem, details from her life and my own symbolic notions of creativity. i don't think anyone has seriously read it, but that holds true for most of my serious writing, lol.
Saki (h.h.monro) was a popular story writer in the first half of the 20th century. his had a sardonic, biting wit that poked fun of the aristocracy, of which he was a member.
here i clearly want it to also mean the drink "sake." and if you don't see that, you probably don't catch the humor. you probably won't catch the humor anyway, lol.
This is about as serious a story as i write. ironic since it was borne from one of my silliest. originally the son was a turnip but when i decided to turn the 55 word story that i had written, in a longer work it soon developed in a tale of a wife and mother who suffers from her callous family. it needs to be longer, but that is true of most of my fiction which is often too sketchy and rough.
No one really likes mt fiction but this one most people don't hate. it was a fun story, my only true horror story (though i have another i never finished.) it was fun,as i said and exposes some truth about me...no i am not a killer, lol.
Lets see, it began as odd humor and midway through it decided that it wanted a moral so it gave itself one. it also decided it wanted to change from humor to satire. there are logical flaws here (no i won't point them out) which i'll smooth out some day...maybe.
People don't like my writing but they find this less offensive than most of my other stories. yeah, it's based on truth, no the details but the feelings and actions. no i never waited outside a bookstore for an ex to come out. but i did a lot of waiting in other ways, shameful to think of now. why can't we always be logical?
Baed on an old saying of my dad's "stick your hand in a bucket of water and then remove it. the hole you leave behind is how much you'll be missed in this world.
for most of us, it's sad but true. of course i padded it with humor to make the pill more palatable to swallow. :)
Well, i had a girlfriend who liked the arts. so do i but i covered that in the story because what is the fun in two people enjoying themselves at a performance. it's much more fun to go along with stereotypes and have the woman be cultured and the man a typical, clueless other sex.
The same lady as in "my brush with culture." most of what he thinks in this story actually took place later, but for the sake of fiction i made him more prescient that i ever was or will be. i actually attended that concert, talk about a fish out of water. i like a degree of culture must must admit to enjoying it in less populated and more familiar surroundings.
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For the price of gold, father time envied my brush with culture.
This is a really cool list. I even made it into a sentence. -
Yes very creative. Come back when it has all 11 stories that will be here, then try to make a sentence
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Is that a challenge? lol
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Give me a couple days to find the other seven and it will be a challenge
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you mean for you to remember where you hid them?
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Exactly. They're somewhere in the middle of those 567 stories and poems.
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Well, I have read them all so next I will tackle a different list though I bet some of these are in more then one...in fact a coupel of times it sounded familiar so probably read it before...but a pleasure to re read if so...Thank you so very much for this fine experience you gave me...
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I think that makes you one of three people who have read all the stories in this list. That is a lot of reading and patience! I would indeed wager that you've read one or two of them before. I stupidly deleted all my old writing but then brought them back. Thank you for all the kind words!
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Well, not sure wher my previous comment is about finishing them all but am honored to be one of the few that have read them all...their loss my gain...Will be looking for the sequel to Silent Snow
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Well I'll be hot-diggity-dogged... I felt for sure I'd find some paydirt after all this work.
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LOL, oh I had a bit of a fun time deleting stuff yesterday. They're like Lays chips, you can't just delete one!
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