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Although I've read more than one story recently (recently being a month or so ago and being outside of assigned literature from class), they are either too complex or don't really abide by the usual definition of a story. For instance, the only thing I've been heavily reading recently is Douglas Rushkoff's works: "The Ecstasy Club", which is a novel, but it's complex plot filled with intricate details of sociology, psychology and conspiracy make it a hard read to remember entirely, and "Playing The Future" which is essentially is a 300 pg essay like book which tells the story without main characters or a plot.

So, in an effort to not cop-out, I decided that some of my past works do qualify as stories. I read a short story (which also exists as a screenplay, the derivative work before the short story, in which both were stemmed off of a poem I wrote titled "Unfinished"), titled "Inzertz". I believe it was a good choice, albeit a last resort, as I had been meaning to re-write it; thanks to an earlier english teacher's offer, I got my draft a very blunt but necessary review by a friend of hers whom is also creative writer. As it was originally a screenplay, therefore in a hopefully form of a movie, some themes were a bit too blunt in an effort to make the audience understand.

A central theme was the theme of illusion; how often the mind takes both illusion and reality for granted and often cannot discern from the two. Sadly, I haven’t been keeping up with readings thus far in class (just barley however, I am a tormented procrastinate), I hope there is a story in the book that address at least one theme in the story of mine. That way, I could get motivation to re-write it for an option under the Reader's Response.

Another theme was the commenting of social realities and how people interact in social realities (Example: the social "sections" of friends people hang out with, how they act differently depending on which group they currently exist in). Also, getting fairly political, I tie in T.V. as well (Ala The Truman Show, I suppose, but with a much more morbid feel.) I guess you could imagine the The Truman Show with the soundtrack entirely consisting of The Cure's "The Head on The Door" or "Pornography".

The way main character behaves, and reacts, to his environment is what would make the story unique would be my deliberate choice to use the omnipotent point of view to better show a varying degree of an indifferent perspective on some parts, and an almost eerie insight into underlying meanings within dialogue and, hopefully, concealed foreshadows.

Perhaps, I'll post it up here regardless of whether it'll be used for class or not.

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