Jem

I have changed my username to the_novel_idea, so if you want to re-friend me there, that would be wonderful! I am going to put up a friends-only banner post, so just comment there and I will add you!

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Though the stories I write will still be open, my journal entries are going to be friends-locked. Comment to be added.

This is my second most recent story. It's called "Rediscovering The Spark." It's about a girl dealing with the homophobia in her school. It's kind of graphic so..uh..warning?



( Rediscovering The Spark )

In english class last year, we had to find an article in a magazine that had some sort of importance to us and then write a fictional story based on what the article was about. I picked an interview with Billy Graham's son, who is a big advocate in the AIDS epidemic, while his father is one of the big religious figures who thinks that it is targeting the right people. I took that article and wrote a story based on AIDS. It's set in 1987, which is the year that the president first publicly talked about AIDS. It deals with two people who have the disease, though they have completely different outlooks on the situation. I'd love to hear some input.



( I'm sick but I don't have amnesia, for Christ's sake! )

Earlier this year, I found a writing prompt in a banner on one of my other journals (confused yet?). The prompt was to write a story starting with the line "hell found me". While taking one of the most boring classes ever, I actualy started working on it. Though I didn't submit it, I kept it and like getting input on it. This was my first short story.



( Hell Found Me )


Any feedback is greatly appreciated.

A link to my fanfiction profile with all my Rent stories:

http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1028203/

Donald Rumsfeld is briefing George Bush in the Oval Office.

"Oh and finally, sir, three Brazilian soldiers were killed in Iraq today."

Bush goes pale, his jaw hanging open in stunned disbelief. He buries his face in his hands, muttering "My God...My God."

"Mr. President," says Cheney, "we lose soldiers all the time and it's terrible. But I've never seen you so upset. What's the matter?"

Bush looks up and says..."How many is a Brazilian?"

10 Reasons Why Gay Marriage is "Wrong"


1) Being gay is not natural. Real Americans always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, and air conditioning.

2) Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.

3)Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to all kinds of crazy behaviour. People may even wish to marry their pets because a dog has legal standing and
can sign a marriage contract.

4) Straight marriage has been around a long time and hasn't changed at all; women are still property, blacks still can't marry whites, and divorce is still illegal.

5) Straight marriage will be less meaningful if gay marriage were allowed; the sanctity of Brittany Spears' 55-hour just-for-fun marriage would be destroyed.

6) Straight marriages are valid because they produce children. Gay couples, infertile couples, and old people shouldn't be allowed to marry because our orphanages aren't full yet, and the world needs more children.

7) Obviously gay parents will raise gay children, since straight parents only raise straight children.

8) Gay marriage is not supported by religion. In a theocracy like ours, the values of one religion are imposed on the entire country. That's why we have only one religion in America.

9) Children can never succeed without a male and a female role model at home. That's why we as a society expressly forbid single parents to raise children.

10) Gay marriage will change the foundation of society; we could never adapt to new social norms. Just like we haven't adapted to cars, the service-sector economy, or longer life spans

Please post this in your journal if you are for gay marriage.

I am the girl kicked out of her home because I confided in my mother that I am a lesbian.

I am the prostitute working the streets because nobody will hire a transsexual woman.

I am the sister who holds her gay brother tight through the painful, tear-filled nights.

We are the parents who buried our daughter long before her time.

I am the man who died alone in the hospital because they would not let my partner of twenty-seven years into the room.

I am the foster child who wakes up with nightmares of being taken away from the two fathers who are the only loving family I have ever had. I
wish they could adopt me.

I am one of the lucky ones, I guess. I survived the attack that left me in a coma for three weeks, and in another year I will probably be able to walk again.

I am not one of the lucky ones. I killed myself just weeks before graduating high school. It was simply too much to bear.

We are the couple who had the realtor hang up on us when she found out we wanted to rent a one-bedroom for two men.

I am the person who never knows which bathroom I should use if I want to avoid getting the management called on me.

I am the mother who is not allowed to even visit the children I bore, nursed, and raised. The court says I am an unfit mother because I now live with another woman.

I am the domestic-violence survivor who found the support system grow suddenly cold and distant when they found out my abusive partner is also a woman.

I am the domestic-violence survivor who has no support system to turn to because I am male.

I am the father who has never hugged his son because I grew up afraid to show affection to other men.

I am the home-economics teacher who always wanted to teach gym until someone told me that only lesbians do that.

I am the man who died when the paramedics stopped treating me as soon as they realized I was transsexual.

I am the person who feels guilty because I think I could be a much better person if I didn’t have to always deal with society hating me.

I am the man who stopped attending church, not because I don't believe, but because they closed their doors to my kind.

I am the person who has to hide what this world needs most, love.

Repost this if you believe homophobia is wrong.