More Short Story Ideas

Idea #4: Strange Fact As Basis -

The Jungian Rockstar knows this true story. Sometime ago two babies, twin boys, were brought by their parents to a urologist for circumcision. After the operation, one baby was without foreskin, the other without penis. The botched operation on the one poor baby whose little penis burned to smithereens caused the parents to think of the unthinkable: rather than have their son grow up without a weewee, they decided for him to become a her, with whatever flesh remaining of the protruding flesh converted to clitoris and part of a constructed vagina instead. Medical and psychological advises and support proved overwhelming, all geared towards the idea that gender can be made and suggested. Wherefore that was how it came to be and the boy grew up as a girl, thanks to injected hormones, constructed genitals, and familial suggestions and environmental intimations that affirm his being feminine: dolls as toys, pink as room color, raffles and ribbons and hairclips as accessories. When the 'girl' became an adult she started having behavioral problems, depressing fits, that gave hints of something wrong about her sexuality, until in the end she found out the truth.

Here's my version for a short: two spouses, man and woman, live the married life in a most conservative/traditional way: with the husband believing chauvinism as a quality and propagated the belief that his emotions and sexuality should always be over and above his wife's, who in turn, acquiesced with the dominance of his husband by ensuring her acts to be nothing but passive. And then they found the truth that when they were babies, by some horrible coincidence, they belonged to the other sex.

Idea #5: Blog Comment As Basis -

In one of my previous entries, my good friend Da Jobert (who is, by the way, celebrating his birthday - happy birthday Da Boss - telling his two readers of the ocassion; Da Boss is right about his readership: one is myself, the other is the rest of the world), in response to another comment by a certain p.q., declared an eerie feeling that everyone knows something except himself, alluding the isolation to a superhero who did not know the identities of the other superheroes but in all unfairness knew him and each other.

I can somehow relate this comment to a short story entitled The Illustrated Encyclopedia Of The Animal Kingdom, by Dan Chaon, where the lead character Dennis (harhar, seems very apt) by the end of the story, thought that something seems very wrong with the world and that everyone knows this but him. This thinking was actually predicated by 2 main facts: first, Dennis sometime back gave sperm to a sperm bank; and second, the tenant above him is a single woman with a baby boy (to whom he gave an animal encyclopedia). I, as part of the whole world and not Dennis, somehow know what he doesn't: the baby upstairs is a product of his sperm donation.

The gist of my story, however, should not come close to Chaon's terrific story as it is to Jobert's premise: In an Alliance of Heroes annual convention, Super J (for you know who) found out that the other secret superheroes were actually the supervillains, that everything was just a conspiracy. Scary? This one's actually a comedy.

Idea #6: Stupidity As Basis -

One important aspect in short story writing is 'point of view', or in whose view the story is being told. The most common perspective, as we probably all know, comes from the super narrator - a third person considered omnipresent and all-knowing who knows what is going to happen because she is aware of everything ongoing in every character's mind. In my this short story, all rules break loose and the narrator does not know anything. Being that, the story is actually about nothing, going nowhere, hopefully ending somewhere, someplace the narrator, being stupid, does not even know.

POSTSCRIPT: Ever heard of this guy mark Cuban, the owner of the Dallas Mavs? Read somewhere that he is mighty rich not because he sold some great estates or sold some great stocks but because he sold some great idea.

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