Story

I am killing the story for the Parts. I did not feel as if the story was going anywhere so why drag it on? I have been working on this other short story that I was thinking of publishing but who knows. Instead of letting the story die I will add on bits to the blog. Edit it on my own will and then who knows if it will get published. This will most likely be my shortest blog ever.
If you did like the old stories email me and let me know. If I hear back you were enjoying that story and want to know where it's going or add on where you see it going, I will continue or will post yours!

Generation

I used to think that each generation was one in the same. In a sense it is but now I am realizing it truly is not. I feel so bad for my generation and younger. They do not know the social disconnect we all share. When our friend is sitting right next to us we will text and have our own private conversation. Why not talk to them?! They are next to you. But oh goodness our others friends that are there which we are suppose to be hanging out with are sitting there and we don't want them to know what we are talking about.

I will admit I am guilty of this crime too. I will be with friends and something with come up and I want to share it so I text that one person. My other friends might want to know too. They could even enjoy what was going on around us. However I keep them out. Why? We are all guilty of this and it has gotten to a point of being normal. How is this a normal behavior? We lose empathy for people. We loss the joy others can give us. We loss our creativity. Those are crimes in which we cannot go back.

We have all seen it. When was the last time an original movie came out? One that was not made from a copy of a book, copy a cartoon, redone a movie, or had a new storyline? Everyday is a new day but we continue to live in the past. There have been a few books that have changed and written what we have not read before. When I look at books now I see a new memoir written about a celebrities life.

The classics are in the back of Barns and Nobles while the celebrity memoir is up front. Are people going to buy books that have been around for years that will change their life? Or grab and "easy read" about a celebrity that is all over the magazines, but we don't know the truth about what really happens in their life. It is a memoir. Read a classic Keep those a live.

I will start reading the books I have heard so much about but have not read because I hear of these other stories and I finish them quickly. I will read through the list of books my Creative Writing professor has given me:

Angela's Ashes Frank McCourt

Tuesday's with Morrie Mitch Albom

Note found in a bottle Susan Cheever

Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life J.M. Coetzee

Colored People:A Memoir. Henry Louis Gates

The Shadow Man Mary Gordon

Daddy We Hardly Knew you Germaine Greer

Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia Marya Hornbacher

All Souls: A family story from Southie Michael Patrick MacDonald

Are You Somebody Nuala O'Faolain

Dubliners (Stories) James Joyce

The Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad

Dangling Man Saul Bellow

Seize the Day Saul Bellow

Ravelstein Saul Bellow

The old man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway

The Sun also Rises Ernest Hemingway

A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway

A Separate Peace John Knowles

Slaughter House Five Kurt Vonnegut

The Color Purple Alice Walker

Jazz Toni Morrison Beloved Toni Morrison

Sula Toni Morrison A Mercry Toni Morrison

Interpreter of Maladies Jhumpa Lahiri (Stories)

Unaccustomed Earth Jhumpa Lahiri (Stories)

The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert

The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald

This Side of Paradise F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Book of Evidence John Banville

The Death of Artemio Cruz Carlos

Fuentes Mrs. Dalloway Virginia

Woolf Light in August William Faulkner

Sanctuary William Faulkner

Native Son Richard Wright

The Invisible Man Ralph Waldo Ellison

The Fifth Child Doris Lessing

Love Medicine Louise Erdrich

Tracks Louise Erdrich

Love in the Ruins Walker Percy

The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents Julia Alvarez

Love in the time of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Wise Blood Flannery O'Connor

Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck

The Dark John McGahern

Slow Man J. M. Coetzee

Disgrace J. M. Coetzee

Waiting for the Barbarians J. M. Coetzee

I will Read this list. I will continue to add on stories but will also add on a review of these books. If any other book stand out to you which I should read please comment. I hope that you also feel incline to read a book. Reading gives us knowledge, creativity, and can bring new friendships.

Let us get our generation involved, social, creative, and gain knowledge.

- Seeking Originality

Rare

I felt as if it was appropriate to change the leaves from being green to colored lives considering this time of year. What I want to share is this time of year. It is so special. The season changes, we get to bundle up in a sweater, or for those lucky enough we get to see the leaves changing. This year I feel as if things are a little different. The snow stayed longer and definitely came stronger. Summer we had a lot of hot days and even last week was quiet warm but now fall feels as if it is truly upon us. Now I am trading in the iced drinks for the hot ones. Oh the little things that happen each season.
I am sure we all have our little things. When it gets cooler out though we start to grow closer with those around us. If you are lucky enough to enjoy your family you would stay in more and have a night with them, or if you are out on you own you will have a girls or guys night in. Forget the bars having to wait in the cold. This time is before the stress of the holidays so we enjoy and embrace the company. Or if you have had a stressful week then cozy up to a good book. There is probably been a book you have wanted to read to pick it up! Read it.
I did not want to tell you to read but this time is rare work is calming down because the change of season the pace is slowing down. Or is it? My sister shared this article with me from the Wall Street Journal, Slumping at Work? What Would Jack Do? (When I first saw the title I thought it was meant as a Jack Bauer reference.) It is an article about how we need to relax and not get caught up in the work and work ourselves to death. I know I have gotten caught up with putting in 18 days. Now who does that help. Getting sleep deprived? Getting touchy/mean from being over work? I know it is not helping you.
I am not too sure where my thoughts were when I started writing this or how I circled it all around. Or if I even made sentences. However I am going to publish this to share with you because I feel like we all need to enjoy the days we are given and relax. Everything last only for a season.

- Seeking Originality

Part Two

Okay why is there beeping? I know this beeping. It sounds like the kind og beeping you hear at the hospital. Am I at a hospital?
"I think she's coming back to us."

Oh God it's so bright. "Yes she's coming back to us."
"Am I in a hospital?"

"Yes you are. Now you gave us quite a scare. You wouldn't want to do that now would you?" This voice gives me chills. I see her up against the window in the corner, wearing leather boots, black tight tank top she made a dress, and spinning a knife in her hand. "Now, now. Don't be afraid. Your parents know where you are. They just don't know what state, country, or that your not going to survive." All she does is grin and walks past the curtain to let me fully see my surroundings.
There is a wall full of windows, tiled floors, and red walls. But the red is a red of misery, torture, and despair. All I can think of is how to get my brother here.


"Honey what's wrong?"
"Mom?" My mom is shaking me and I open my eyes. She is trying to hold me down. "Mom? Oh my God Mom!" I lunge up to hug her, to be pulled back down in a thriving pain. I yell from the rushing pain. "What happened to me?" Now I feel the pain of being beaten, cut, and chained.
"Oh honey don't move. Are you okay?"
"I can't think. All I can focus on is the pain. Oh. God! Ryan! Where's Ryan?!"
"RYan is coming. He was on a business retreat in Australia without a phone. He got our messages yesterday and got a red eye here. He should be here soon. Your father went to the airport."
"Thank God. He got on the plane? He called saying he was on the plane?"
"No sweetie he called us from the car taking him back to his apartment. What's wrong?"
"The girl who had me. Ryan. just make sure he's safe! And that he's on his plane. I just need to know that he's safe."
"Your not making any sense."
"Mom just do it! I'll explain just make sure he's safe."

Authors

I am adding the final edits to the Part two for the story. However I want this blog to be a collection of multiple authors. I am advertising on my twitter to have authors submitting their work but all I can really say is submit your work! With the stories that are sent to me I will not, I repeat WILL NOT take credit for your work. I will add the stories to the main blogs. If many people submit their work and have multiple stories to add I will create a new tab, with your permission of course, and have all their stories there. The tab can be your name, pen name, whatever you want to call it.
I will not only take stories. I will take poetry, photography, drawing, anything that is creative and you wish to share. I hope to receive some of your stories soon!


- Seeking Originality


How could I forget, send your stories or photos to seekoriginality@gmail.com