Saturday, May 28, 2011

Not sure on that title

Trying to save a group of short stories from the fate that so many of their brethren experienced by putting out  a collection of them.  The problem is finding the appropriate title.  The best I've come up with so far is "Love Letters to a Fading Future".  It fits, but it doesn't pop.  Need to continue to think about it.

Introduction to Love Letters to the Future


Introduction
A single subject wide ruled notebook with a green cover.  If anyone ever finds it, I would definitely pay dearly for it because it contained magic.  Pencil and pen   filled each page fully along with scribbles, cross outs, notes in the margins; a complete mess.  But it was special to me.  Even after almost 30 years I remember something of my first story.
He was a lone explorer in deep space, a bit of Buck Rogers,  a touch of Han Solo, and more than a little bit of Johnny Rico  all rolled into one.   He fought and beat nightmarish creatures to eventually make it back to mother Earth and into to a planned but never finished sequel (with two lead  characters so it could be twice as good).  I scribbled and wrote in the car, at home in my room, even in class when I could get away with it.  That story (Starship?? I think) gave me sense of excitement that few other things could match. 
Some of the stories in this collection are about as complex as what I was doing at ten years old, some of it is cryptic and  as beaten as I was when I wrote them,  some of them aren’t even traditional genre work, but it all pieces of what I have accomplished over the years and  I really don’t want that lost. 
I’d like to thank Amy who pushed me to do this collection these stories wouldn’t join the green note book “Lost Fiction” collection and for helping me find a sense of wonder that I had lost.