Just so you know what I decided to write
And short stories can be too.
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I decided to put this week’s energy, and probably next week’s too, into writing a short story. It will likely be called ‘The Seer of Narglehumptef’. It will be a gentle parody / satire of religion and politics. It’s also a not so gentle parody of people in my family who were too serious for their own good, and are now dead so they can’t complain about anything.
The story starts around Gramma’s dinner table with the constant fight between family members about the right way to worship Jesus. Except take the name Jesus out and insert the name Narglehumptef. (They shouldn’t have brought Jesus into it and I’m not bringing him into it either.) The fight moves to politics and money and ends with Gramma kicking the worst offenders out of the dinner table.
The main character is a young woman who is of the age where she is supposed to try out for the Seers of Narglehumptef. She doesn’t know if she wants to do that, but she doesn’t particularly want to do anything else either. So, she finds herself at the tryouts. I don’t want to spoil anything, so I’m going to stop there.
I’m hoping the story is fun all the way through, but face it, nothing can be as funny as my family fighting at the dinner table. Not so fun to experience, but much better to read about. I have to get my elevator pitch for this story down better. Narglehumptef doesn’t just trickle off the tongue. And I can’t just plop the title off on call. Any public speaking tips for speaking the unspeakable?