About ten years ago, my short story "The Curse of Tatiana Minero," a fable about a man whose memories of a teenage girl ruin his life, was published in Void magazine. I did a Google search of the story today to see "how it is doing" and I discovered that Void has re-published it this year.
For some reason I thought of the story last night as I was reading an interview with one of my favorite writers Bruce J. Friedman in a book about comedy writing called Poking a Dead Frog: Conversations with Today's Top Comedy Writers by Mike Sacks.
I agree with Friedman that you should never try to write comedy but rather tell the truth and either your work will be funny or it won't, but that's not the point. The truth is.
Is the moral of this tale that sometimes we can't move on----or at least we can never move on completely? Or is the moral that we must always be prepared to seize an opportunity when it presents itself (the old Jerry Quarry quote, "Luck is when preparation meets opportunity." (He stressed that without preparation, there's nothing but hard luck.). I see it differently----I think the moral is "Things happen for a reason." because I suppose that this chick was incapable of really making someone happy---far too concerned about herself to worry about anyone else. The real curse was on the people who WERE the good kissers and had their lives turned upside down by her.
Posted by: Angelo | July 23, 2014 at 04:49 AM
Probably a little of both.
Posted by: Jeffrey McMahon | July 23, 2014 at 02:55 PM