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Erin Halfelven/Morgan Preece: Sam I Am -6- "My Name Is Sam..."
Posted by: Admin on Thursday, March 18, 2004 - 02:05 AM Printer Friendly
My name is Sam...

Sam
I Am


Part 6


by Sherilynne Amber MacDonald

From Her Diary...



Page 101

I had to cry some more, but it's later now and I'm still here. I was trying to tell why I'm here in my room writing in my diary and it's the middle of the day.

Jenny called, I said that, and she's like been Sheri's friend like forever so she espects me to be Sheri and when I can't remember she tries to make me remember.

Mommy doesn't do that, heck, even Gary doesn't do that. I asked Mommy why she doesn't try to make me remember.

She goes, "The doctors said you would remember or you wouldn't and trying to make you remember would just upset you."

I laughed a little, a sick sort of laugh, I guess. "Well, yeah, it does. It makes me mad and it makes me cry and it scares me cause I can't remember."

"I know, honey," she goes. "We just have to be patient. Maybe you'll remember someday."

That scared me. Cause if I start to remember being Sheri then I won't be me anymore and I'll really be dead. I think I was all, "I don't want to remember!"

Mommy, Sheri's mom, pulled me into her lap even though I'm as big as her and patted me and hugged me and goes stuff like, "It's okay," and "You don't have to remember until you want to," and "It's because you got hurt that it hurts to remember, but you'll get well soon."




Page 100

I wanted to get well for her, I wanted to become Sheri, as much as I could because it would make Mommy happy. But I still wanted to be me cause I'm so scared of that dark place I must have been in before I woke up in the hospital.

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Those are tear drops. The ink won't stick to them.

I think I was dead and I don't want to be dead again cause I might not find my way back. I'm a girl now but it's better than if Sheri comes back for her body, cause then Sam will be dead. I don't want to be

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Page 99

I stopped crying now. I think I'm all cried out. I'm so thirsty but I'm going to stay in my room until supper, Mommy thinks I'm asleep. I think I did sleep a little.

She heard me crying and I had to hide this book under the pillows when she came in but she held me and I feel maybe a bit better. I didn't tell her why I was crying and she thinks it is just cause of my period. Which sucks but that's not really why I was crying.

I had a really weird dream. Maybe I remembered something. But not about Sheri, about the other me. I think I remembered my name. Sam. This lady with dark hair and eyes called me Sam. She was lots bigger than me. Not like Sheri's mom who's about the same size as me, as Sheri.

My mom in the dream was bigger than me and she called me Sam. I'm a boy named Sam and I'm only eight, only now I'm Sheri and I'm fifteen and I'm a girl. I wish I could cry some more cause it hurts to need to cry when you can't.




Page 98

I dreamed again and I remembered some other stuff about being Sam. I remembered we were all going somewhere together in my dad's truck. I think we were going to the hospital, but maybe that part is just a dream cause I woke up in a hospital.

But I think we were going to the hospital cause something was wrong with Mommy, Sam's mom. I think she was going to have a baby. Maybe I do have a little brother or little sister besides Gary who is Sheri's little brother?

It was dark and I was asleep but they woke me up to go along because there was no one to stay with me. Mommy was making noises like she hurt really bad and I wanted to sit next to her but I had to sit in the back cause I was too little to sit in front.

They kept saying it was early and I was a little cranky because it was early, it was still dark.

I think I fell asleep back there. Then I heard people talking and then there was a lot of noise and a bright light. And then it got really really dark and cold and I woke up crying.

Only this time, I woke up in Sheri's bed at home and not in the hospital bed. I just laid there a long time and only cried a little bit.




Page 97

I think I figured something out. Sam and Sheri both died but God put pieces of them back together and that is me. Sam's parents probably went to Sam's funeral and his body is dead and buried and that's why they aren't looking for me.

I know they loved Sam, they kissed me when they put me in the back seat. I know they must miss him terrible and I miss them.

But if Sheri were the one that had to stay dead, her parents would be terrible hurt too. And Gary.

I heard someone say, "Life's not fair," and I guess death isn't either. Someone has to be dead and it's not me, even if I am all patched together and my arm still hurts sometimes and my head doesn't work right. It's the other little broken pieces of both of me that has to stay dead.

I cried a little more then I got up and wrote this down. I think I'll hide this book again and then go down the hall and see if Mommy will let me sleep the rest of the night with her.




Note: TG magic transmigration age progression child to teen rated-M
Part 7. 6. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1.

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Re: Sam I Am -6- "My Name Is Sam..." (Score: 1)
by Jezzi on Mar 18, 2004 - 06:20 AM
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WOW! "Derath isn't fair" I haven't heard that before, so your breaking new ground - with me, at least. Soooo sad. Will mom ever read the diary? I think this is a very feminine "have a good cry" story, Erin, congrats.



Re: Sam I Am -6- "My Name Is Sam..." (Score: 1)
by Admin on Mar 18, 2004 - 11:08 AM
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That's pretty much what I was aiming at here. Thanks, Jezzi. Next episode should be lighter in tone, I promise. :)

- Erin


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Re: Sam I Am -6- "My Name Is Sam..." (Score: 1)
by DebraKohlrust on Mar 18, 2004 - 07:38 PM
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Hon, write it as you feel it. You're doing a wonderful job so far. The story makes sense, the feelings are there, and I am eagerly devouring each piece as it unfolds.

Question about your technique though -- do you have each complete story all plotted out in advance, or do you start with the basic idea and see where it takes itself to, or do you have some other method?

Thanks for writing!

Deb


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Re: Sam I Am -6- "My Name Is Sam..." (Score: 1)
by Admin on Mar 18, 2004 - 08:29 PM
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Every story is different. Sometimes I sit down with no more idea of what I'm going to do than a cat knows of calculus. Other times, I've got a specific scene or character description I want to get onto paper, uh, pixels.

Sometimes an entire story pops into my head and I tie my fingers in knots trying to type it in.

Sometimes I mull on a story for a long time before I start it and I might even do an outline and keep notes.

Sometimes, I'm just exploring a concept.

When I begin, I may have an ending in mind, more likely, I have several endings in mind and will let the characters explore until they find the one that fits their story.

For Sam I Am, I started with a title, borrowed from Wanda. "Sixteen, the Hard Way". (Her lost novel, folks.) She did something completely different with it but my idea was an 8 year old boy in a 16 year old girl's body.

I started writing, first thing I found out was the girl's name and that the boy had been left-handed. After about 5000 words, I found out the boy's name. :) After about 12000 words, I decided to start posting it and when I went to post it, a new title happened. Or rather, I borrowed a title from Ted Geisel instead of Wanda. :) This story was not titled "Sam I Am" until just a few minutes before it appeared on the website. The file the whole thing is in is still named "sixteen.txt".

I do a lot of my real work of writing away from the keyboard, driving, reading, doing housework, walking around, watching seabirds. I let the stories I'm working on simmer in the stewpot of my skull. Then I sit down in front of a keyboard and sometimes, something pours out.

I can write another way, with discipline and determination, I can turn out 500 words of finished prose on almost any subject every hour I'm at the keyboard. I don't enjoy that method nearly as well but I have made my living at it at times.

I do know where Sam I Am is going now and I have the story roughly outlined on one of the shelves in the back of my mind. I don't look too closely at the outline until I need it. And I'm still exploring Sam's relationship to Sheri, I've got 15000 words written and I'm not half done.

I'm posting in small chunks because that is the way Sheri is writing it. I want the readers to feel like they are snooping in her diary, checking in now and then to see what else she's written. Virtual voyeurs on the inner workings of her mind. :)

Consider this first 6 segments as the long first chapter of a stacatto novel. :) Next installment will be headed in a new direction.

Thanks for the comments, Deb. I'm glad you're enjoying it. :)

- Erin


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Re: Sam I Am -6- "My Name Is Sam..." (Score: 0)
by Guest Reader on Mar 18, 2004 - 09:25 PM
Thanks for sharing, Hon. I can do the discipline of writing if I have to, and that is how "Kelly's First Day" happened. Suzie Collins needed a piece right away for her magazine, and I remembered reading about the Navy pilot in the thunderstorm, so there was the start. I had a LGCD friend on the east coast at that time, and got the outfit descriptions from her site, etc.

It's more fun for me though, to start with a critical scene and work both backwards and forwards from that point.

"Sam" is a wonderful piece, but I am not sure how I want it to end... Guess that is why you are the writer and I am the reader on this one! {giggle}


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Re: Sam I Am -6- "My Name Is Sam..." (Score: 1)
by Admin on Mar 20, 2004 - 09:06 PM
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I don't know how I missed this comment earlier. :)

It's always fun to get a glimpse into the workings of another writer's mind.

Thanks, Deb (I know it's you even tho you forgot to log in :))
Erin


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Re: Sam I Am -6- "My Name Is Sam..." (Score: 1)
by slothrop on Mar 20, 2004 - 05:48 PM
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Now you go getting all existential or spiritual on me, and here I was skimming along with this happy tale.

"Putting all the pieces together" - I am impressed- a fine story devce with a potentially lucrative television based religion behind it. You could make millions from this, since I'll bet you could get thousands of people to believe it happened to them- (Just kidding- it is such a good concept and I've never run across it before. At least not with God involved, anyway. Aliens, yes, but a God who has to rummage with spare parts? Priceless. God as the harried ER technician)

Now I'm getting impatient, dammit. Where is the next one?

This started good but is developing real depth, and like a lot of the better fiction here, the gender change is somewhat secondary to the character's real feelings and crisis.

If it gets any better I will not be disappointed but amazed you can go up from the peak you just hit.

Slothrop



Re: Sam I Am -6- "My Name Is Sam..." (Score: 1)
by Admin on Mar 20, 2004 - 09:16 PM
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Funny you should mention existentialism. :) I just got back from having coffee with my friend, the Consulting Philosopher. We didn't get around to discussing existentialism (at least, I don't think we did :)) but we did talk about shared realities and such.

The idea of sideways reincarnation I sort of stole from BoyChiq and Lainie Lee's "Esperanza"(right here on BC with illustrations by me). The putting together of such persons from parts is sort of in that story but not expressed directly. According to BoyChiq, that story was inspired by Warren Beaty's "Heaven Can Wait". :)

The next "Sam I Am" goes up later tonight, a more mundane episode, perhaps, but I hope I can amaze you at least one more time before I'm done, Ty. :) Thanks for the very nice comment.

- Erin


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Death, the final topic and also a biginning topic? (Score: 1)
by Angel (angelohare@earthlink.net)
on Mar 20, 2004 - 06:08 PM
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Unlike popular belief death is not final. I died once, I was four years old at the time and I do remember it. I remember waking up under sheet, naked, cold and alone. That was back in 1957.

Memories are confusing to say the least after an experience like that. Luckily I was only four and not many memeries could get jumbled up and messed about.

Then again I woke up being me and not in another persons body with no real memories of either.

Giggle, giggle. Erin you amaze me girl! Of course that is no surprise really. You are such a great writer and I am but a struggling newbie.

Read I do and I read a lot! This story is far reaching and encompases so much more than many stories posted here. In just six short choppy diary entries I bet you have had more comments and have covered more ground than any other story here!

Keep it up girl! Now it is time to watch UCONN WIN! Giggle, giggle.

Huggles
Angel



Re: Death, the final topic and also a biginning topic? (Score: 1)
by Admin on Mar 20, 2004 - 09:22 PM
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I've had some strange experiences as I lay dying, also. I've found that while there is a bolt of terror to begin with when you realize what is about to happen, after that, it's peaceful and sweet to contemplate your life and cherish the joys as you regret the sorrows.

I don't think I've ever actually died but I've been near enough to shake St. Peter's hand (or give old Charon his fee) more than once.

Thanks for the comment, Angel, and MUSH! YOU HUSKIES, MUSH! :)

- Erin


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