Steve’s story brought to mind the commonness of our plights and yet our conflicts in seeking individualism while at the same time needing to fit in with society. The life and death elements brought me to the two players on stage, a surgeon and a man and his heart.
It’s a very simple piece, with the balance of protagonist and antagonist each choosing their own paths and borders.
For no good reason I related instantly to “Tinkerton had always felt somewhat sore at the unfairness of his hands.” This led me into the mind games we play in balancing one choice against another, always seeking a sense of fair play by measuring ourselves against others.
I’ve admittedly broken point of view rules here, but the three women and the possibilities were too much to resist.
When I first read Steve’s story on data backup, Norman Rockwell’s “The Gossips” came to mind and the old fashioned manner of maintaining history through verbal storytelling. And of course, the details that change with each telling.
So this became a study in family history that shows the paths that history takes when man and not machine are the recorders.
The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology
