In article <0fv726hsqps41cg8kj4ki5iep9p8lqi0lv@4ax.com>, NP-f31 wrote:
> On 24 Jun 2010 19:03:01 -0500, " +Grant. " <+Grant@grant.grant> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >The Adventures of Stevie #10
> >
> >These stories were told to me by friends and other people. Some of them
> >are true. Some of them are only partly true. Some of them should have
> >been true. LOL
> >
> >My first post about Stevie ("Call me Stephen!") was when he was 12 and
> >in summer camp and was told by another camper. This was from a time
> >before computers would fit on a desk, and when people communicated with
> >friends in other countries by actual letters sent through the postal
> >service. When children did this those friends were called "penpals".
> >Carlos is Stevie's penpal in Argentina, and knows English. This is a
> >fictional contrivance to enable Stevie to tell us his stories, because
> >he isn't here in person. I think.
> >The stories may not be posted in chronological order.
> >Stevie's school is for gifted children who don't fit in regular schools.
> >Stevie is 11 in this story, which takes place two weeks after story #9
> >
> >
> >The Adventures of Stevie #10 "Darkness and Light"
> >
> >
> >Dear Carlos,
> >
> >
> > I discovered something bad about my mother. She doesn't think very
> >much, and sometimes she thinks wrong on purpose.
> >I was outside playing pro wrestling with Doc, and I noticed it was
> >getting a little dark, and I was supposed to be inside before it was
> >dark, so I went inside like I was supposed to. Mother yelled at me for
> >being late because she said it was already dark. I tried to tell her it
> >looks dark out the window because the lights inside made her eyes
> >adjust to them, not to the dark, and that outside with my eyes adjusted
> >for outside, it didn't look very dark at all, so I didn't know she
> >would think it was time to come in before I did. Eyesight adjusting to
> >different light is called accommodation. She didn't believe me and
> >yelled at me for talking back, and made father spank me with his belt.
> >Between spanks father told me mother hates being wrong so much she gets
> >really angry and stops her thinking when it happens so she won't have
> >to believe she made a mistake. He said she doesn't think about what
> >other people see and feel so she believed I was lying even though I
> >wasn't. I said that's crazy. He said I should never say that about her
> >and spanked me more. I think he is a little like her with this idea and
> >doesn't want to believe she is crazy. Now I want to learn more about
> >why people think things that are not real because of this, and because
> >of what Doc said just before this dark thing with mother happened.
> >
> >Doc is 16 and is very big and strong. He is from a different country
> >called Sweeten, which makes him Sweetish. His name is short for a long
> >name I don't remember. He is on the wrestling team in his school. Where
> >I live most of the kids are my age or younger so he doesn't have kids
> >here his age to play with. He talks slow, but I think it's because he
> >thinks in a different language, not because he is dumb, so kids my age
> >don't want to play with him, and because they are scared he is so big.
> >I know better. I think he is very smart and thinks a lot, and he would
> >never hurt anybody. He could hurt me by accident playing, like squash
> >me flatter than a pancake under a steamroller and not even notice it,
> >but he never did. I am the only kid here who plays with him.
> >We were playing wrestling on the grass outside my building. I told him
> >there was something hard in his front pocket that was poking me. He
> >laughed and said it was his boner. He said don't worry about it because
> >it happens a lot to wrestlers when they wrestle. He said all that
> >rubbing of body parts against each other caused it, and they are
> >concentrating so hard on wrestling they don't notice it. He said they
> >learn not to get too embarrassed about it because there is nothing they
> >can do about it. He said they had to explain it sometimes when other
> >boys call them bad names because of it, like queer and fag and homo. I
> >asked why they did that, and here is what he said, with my usual
> >interruptions.
> > "You know about what sex is? That a man and a woman who love each
> >other that special way get married and have kids?"
> >I said yes.
> > "Well, men and men sometimes can love each other that way too. So can
> >women and women. That kind of love is called homosexual. The man and
> >woman love is called heterosexual. People who love and have sex either
> >way are called bisexual. Lots of people think homosexuality is wrong
> >and bad because their religion says so, and some people think it makes
> >men be like girls, and that it's wrong because of that too, because
> >stuffy people think other people should be the way they think they
> >should be and not who they really are or want to be."
> >I said boys call boys those names because they think those boys act
> >like girls.
> > "Right. Those boys try to act manly and they think they can do that
> >by being bad to boys who they think aren't manly enough."
> >I said that's stupid! They shouldn't do that. Then I said love is a
> >good thing, and people should be allowed to love who they want to and
> >not be punished for it. If nobody gets forced to do what they don't
> >want to do, and nobody gets hurt, any kind of love and the sex things
> >which go with it shouldn't be wrong.
> > "Right again. You really are smart! That's why I like you."
> >He said that while he was play poking me in my chest. I said I was
> >smart enough to break his finger if he kept poking me, and we both
> >laughed.
> > "There is one more thing about this. What you do doesn't make you who
> >you are. Lots of boys do sexual things with each other, like jerking
> >each other off. Even french kissing and other things. They usually do
> >it just for fun. That doesn't have to mean they are homosexual. A penis
> >doesn't care whose hand is on it to make it feel good. But because of
> >what bullies would say about it, and call them names and want to beat
> >them up, and parents would act crazy about it if they knew their kids
> >do what they are too embarrassed to remember they did when they were
> >kids, boys keep it a secret. Remember that if you do it. The bullies do
> >it in secret too. REALLY secret! Ha ha. When you are older you will
> >know what kind of special sexual love is right for you. Don't let
> >anybody try to change that part of you, because it won't work, and
> >don't do what isn't right for you, even if it's because you want to
> >make somebody else happy. You have to be YOU, or you can't ever be
> >really happy."
> >I said I would remember and thanked him while poking him in his chest
> >with every word. He laughed and poked me back and we both laughed. Then
> >we went home when it wasn't really that dark.
> >I want to learn more about this and why people think so different. What
> >do you think about it?
> >
> >
> >Your friend,
> >
> >Stephen
>
> Hey Grant,
>
> Thanks for including a Doc in your story. Doc is lucky to have such a
> bright and wonderful friend as Stevie. Stevie has the intelligence and
> thoughtfulness to see things as they are. He may not always have the
> words he needs to explain what he's thinking, but his thinking is
> clear and he trusts his instincts. How can we not fall in love with
> Stevie?
That has been my intention. LOL
A good author knows he has to give his readers reasons to keep reading.
I'm learning as I go about this. Did you notice I haven't described
what he looks like except he is short and thin? That's so my readers
can imagine him at his most beautiful to them. No, that wasn't on
purpose. I just thought it up right now. LOL
> Thanks for another great lesson in getting along.
You're welcome, and he is indeed long. LOL
> Affectionately,
>
> Doc
> A different one, but still sort of 'sweetish'.
Akshually, the character was going to be from Finland, and he came to
America because he was Finished over there. So I unfinished him and
changed him to 'Doc" from a different country because I thought the
name didn't seem right to be from Finland. That was all I changed in
the story.
The next story introduces Ninja and Tommy. That won't be their only
appearance. Stevie likes them very much. Maybe a little too much. LOL
--
Grant
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