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.

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__________________________________________________WWS_____________

There still isn't anything about shorts in this story.


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