It looks like Time Travel really is real, because here we go again.
Hey friends,
I hope this letter finds you well.
About six years ago I set out to write a fictional story every week.
A weekly chapter newsletter.
I only ever sent one.
I wish to begin again where I left off.
Back then, I gathered up my mental resources with the intention of telling the story of Turtle Jack. Well Turtle Jack is back.
Each week I'll be sending out fictional newsletters. I intend to do this for a year and see how it goes.
Any criticism of the writing itself is encouraged. I trust you all are loving human beings, with clean intentions.
At the bottom of this message. See the included descriptions of each of the three fictional projects.
This week is: 1) Book of the North Store
I am recommitment.
Concluding thoughts.
The dream may have been asleep for 6 years, but it is back now more than ever. It has a new vigor, genre, and flavor. It shall be watered. I hope you will join me in this newsletter adventure.
It is my hope to enliven, excite, and entertain. Maybe even dazzle. Perhaps my words may evince a tear or two with painful portrayals on life—life with all its redemptive woe and desolation. With a little theatrics to aid, I plan to convince you of the great beauty in life. Convince -- despite all odds.
Final Final Thoughts:
Coincidental moments determine many of the choices we make
Stories help weave a thread of coherent meaning into the absurdity of life and the human experience. Stories are the keys to make sense of the universe. The glue to the inherent nonsense we find in our own soup-like existence.
In telling stories, we may claim ownership of the nonsensical as our divine right.
We may translate meaninglessness into the deepest embodiment of self-knowing. We may turn suffering into acceptance. We may fall flat on our face, as well. A good story is hard to tell.
But,
A good story will change your life.
I encourage you all to make stories of yourselves. You have no idea how many human souls your voice may reach. How many hearts may be healed to hear of your own tale. Your trials, your troubles. Your suffering and your redemption.
You may just find said redemption in that process itself.
I implore you to mythologize yourself.
The story of your life is the greatest gift you can give to the world.
Disclaimer:
All the words typed are always my own. They are handwritten first.
Unless the damn robots start hijacking my computer, I will only be using the intelligent machines for spell-checking, punctuation, and organization.
The right to write is humankind’s last frontier in the creative War on Art. Our time is now, Our choice is simple. We must each pick a side in the grand drama of life: machine or soul.
"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."
-Viktor Frankl
I will heretofore call this newsletter Turtle Sean's Fiction (or TSF for short).
Stay tuned for more words.
Keep an eye on your Starfish,
Turtle Sean
Description of the Three Stories I Write About.
Three: Turtle Jack
This was my first fiction work. A spiritual sci-fi story about a turtle spirit named Jack who had just lived a human life and was unsure of his ontological validity. He woke up in the afterlife questioning the freedom of his decision-making abilities. In the human incarnation, he was an opioid addict who was suffering a painful demise in a hospital with Alzheimer flashbacks. After passing, he felt the serene bliss of the universe and the call to reincarnate immediately. He un-intuitively resisted and found himself transported further out into soul space. It is a metaphysical thriller.
Two: Starfish Troopers
This is a science fiction-fantasy story about starfish that have invaded our planet. There are a collective alien organism offering telepathy in exchange for the placement of human hands into their mouths. They are docile and unintimidating. They seem to only want to help us grow more connected. What could go wrong?
One high school teacher, Jimmy Guillen, is destined to wake up—and in doing so, risks waking up the entire Starfish Organism.
(sidenote: He teaches literature, and all his students wish to do is stick their hands in and play starfish telepath. To be determined if he succeeds at getting any students to resist their own starfish addiction. He starts an extra-curricular club called the Starfish Troopers)
One: The Book of the North Store
This is the one I will be writing most frequently.
In the land of Svarth, human beings have forgotten how to dream. There are 22 towns and each town has a Master Builder (a machine that makes town-decisions). Ever since the adults can remember, each year at the celebration of Harvest, all of the towns children age 7 and up, are taken at noon by the machines for that day. They are returned at night
This story follows a young man named Henry who is learning how to dream again.
It’s a spiritual sci-fi with the underpinning themes of alchemy, self-love, and the importance of dreaming. It fundamentally aims to teach the importance of evening routine.
Hopefully, my writing here will help you all wake up to your own beauty. To your love of self along the strange road back home that we call living.
Be kind to yourself today.
More awareness, more kindness. That’s the point.
As we enter the strange and exhilarating book of life itself, let us all hold hands and remember: Telepathy is real, you just heard my voice in your head.
I love you