Dinosaur Bees

Chapter Four from "The Story"
Travis Macdonald

The story takes place in the midst of an economic crisis. The story must have a shark at the beginning; tiger, nurse or loan. The story revolves around a yacht that never once leaves dock. A character turns out to be wiser than he or she appears throughout most of the story. Another character loses their houseboat at cards. The story must have some oil appear from an unknown origin. During the story, a character misunderstands someone. As a result, this character is confused throughout the rest of the story. The outcome proves fatal. The reader must be made to sympathize. The story must have a bench in the middle for intermission. The story begins in the museum of thrown objects. The reader is a visitor not a guest. Somewhere in the story there is a theft. Nothing goes exactly as planned. Over the course of the story, someone is framed for something they meant to do but never got around to. An ironically unrelated crime of apathy turns out to have been painstakingly orchestrated. The story must, above all else, have a rabbit in its hat that is never completely revealed. The story should involve some expired medicine, improperly applied to comedic and/or tragic effect. Later in the story the main character writes a novel but nobody seems overly enthused by it. The story must have an octopus at the end to tie everything together.

TRAVIS MACDONALD'S first full-length book The O Mission Repo [vol. 1] is available from Fact-Simile Editions (www.fact-simile.com). His second collection, N7ostradamus, was recently released by BlazeVox Books (www.blazevox.org). Basho’s Phonebook, an e-chap of his experimental translations can be found at E-ratio (www.eratiopostmodernpoetry.com). Other poetry and prose has appeared in places like 580 Split, Bombay Gin, Court Green, Columbia Poetry Review, ditch, E-ratio, Hot Whiskey, Jacket, Matter, Otoliths, Requited, Wheelhouse and elsewhere. He recently moved all of his words and worldly belongings to Philadelphia, PA.

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Travis Macdonald ::	Chapter Four from “The Story”