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The Shashigai are the storytellers of Karn. It's more than
Still, storytelling has a twisted side. I was thirteen and in the middle of my first novel when I was called out of the blue by a man who said he was the boyfriend of my good friend. He said something had happened to her, but she was too embarrassed to say what.
He wanted me to tell him pornographic stories. He said it would help my friend. He was lying. I don't clearly remember the rest of the call, but it's my way of laughing in the face of all that is wrong with the universe, that I took him literally. What it burned into me - to us, because we are a multiple system - was not shame or corruption, but a desire to protect our friends.
The storyteller has the power to touch people's hearts, to capture them and hold them. The real test of his character comes with what he does with them afterwards.
Who do you allow to tell your story?
 
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Also hahaha the timing of this post is cool because j-t I was just coming to your journal looking for you because I just saw this a minute ago and needed to pass it on: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cyaninc/obduction
I suppose music tells my story. Five for Fighting: Superman. P!INK: Raise your glass and Sober. Many others: Maroon Five, Seal, even the Backstreet Boys: Show me the meaning.
Don't knock the ballads. Superman is a ballad. Show me the meaning is about not fitting into the world. Sure it's a love song (barely), but it's also about not being able to belong because you can't meet the requirements. To me it's about being so mixed up biologically and so different mentally that I can't The song All I have to give (just the chorus) came out when the first love of my life died - my cat Zachy. I've only come close to what I had for him once in my life. Guess who? :P Sorry if that's embarrassing. It's good to have kin. Jason Mraz: I won't give up (all of it) tells that story.
That's the last one. Kin tells my story.