Subject: Re: Q:Name of 1950s shorts story From: WWS Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written,alt.fan.tom-servo,alt.fan.bam Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 Message-ID: <37A602C3.B0C611AA@tyler.net> I don't get it, I don't see anything about shorts in this story. The Blair Witch, while in possession of the body of Dan Tropea wrote: > > A few years ago i had read this incredible short story which was in an old > SF magazine (1950s). The story was really a whole lot like the story of my life, cause it > was about a boy who was born with wings and his mother screamed and cried and swore this wasn't her baby, and that he > died (if i recall correctly) during the delivery. The doctor said he wasn't dead, he just smelled that way. > The doctor took the boy and brought him to a secluded skunk pen, but even they couldn't stand it. They ended up on a > Maine island where he raised him. The boy loved to yell "I'm a Lobster! Eat me!!" at fisherman, and then point to his > fly. The doctor died and the boy who is at this point starting to experiment with S&M and "alternate lifestyles", in his > early 20s went off to see the world. He dreamed constantly of "Exit to Eden", and swore he'd make it real! > He met this woman and they fell in love. She asked him how he felt about being the submissive one, and wanted him > to cut his wings off to look normal. He agreed. that probably nothing could be done to make him look "normal". > At the end he discovered his wings grew back so he didn't worry when JFK Jr. asked him to go on a trip, and > he went flying and crashed into the sea happy that he died in a way that would be shown on TV's everywhere, so he was > doing what he loved. Dying was a small price to pay to be on TV!!! > Who wrote this story? I lost the magazine. Although I think it might have been called Busty Beauties. > Also has anyone thought of making this into a movie. I have always thought my life story would be a great movie. > To me this is a perfect Speilberg story that he could have take place on D-Day with lot's of 'splosions and it would > turn into a big movie. Also he could go back and talk about my parents and my grandparents and my great grandparents all the way back to Grandpa Caveman, cause I think people would want to know. -- __________________________________________________WWS_____________ There still isn't anything about shorts in this story.
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