Yes, I know, I stole the title from the Ted Nugent album of the same name. But Ted stole it from an actual disease caused by a cat scratch or bite. So I don't think old Ted can complain. And the title fits so well.
This is a heavy duty sex story. And unlike virtually all of my other stories, the sex is actually consummated. Although many of my stories have a sexual component, Cat Scratch Fever is the most pornographic. Why the difference? After Orbiting a Strange Attractor, I wanted to write about a character who was nothing like me. MacAree is nothing like me. I am short, little, talkative, brainy Jew while MacAree is the strong, silent, goyish type. MacAree is also the type who gets laid indiscriminately. Enough said.
But I have been known to do odd things for no apparent reason. At one point I took to wearing sunglasses night and day, inside and out, much to the annoyance of my friends. I'm not sure why I was wearing sunglasses but it made its way into this story.
MacAree is the first of many Grinders who give this collection its name. He grinds out a living, wanting little out of life and getting little in return. During the course of the story, he has a little adventure but, in the end, his life goes on as it did before. Maybe a little different, but not much. Such is the life of a Grinder. Perhaps that's why my stories end suddenly. The adventure ends and life goes on.
Once again, the story is a little dated. Cars don't come with tape decks any more.
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as usual...find someone complaining about some facet of life, communication or whatever, and usually one finds that they themselves are guilty of the same infraction.
ReplyDeleteWhile your addressing of this (? disease, illness, situation?) may be pertinent to the present day, you are citing an old (?disease, illness, situation?) and using an ancient song to accent it?
In your own words, sir, "This story is a little old. Is a blog supposed to be topical?"
I'm not sure what the nature of your complaint is. Do you object to the fact that I wrote the story 15 years ago? Are you complaining that I used a song title from 1977? Or do you find the story some how old?
ReplyDeleteThis is not a topical blog but a collection of short stories. Did you like the story?
actually, by now, you've relocated your original comment at CANADA, EH, and see it was a reflection of your comment there.
ReplyDeleteI apologized there to you.
And again, here, too.
It was a bad day, all in all.
Besides the washing machine breaking (I live way out in the country) and my axe/maul breaking (we heat the house with wood), and a flood of extreme right-wing hate chain letters arriving at my doorstep and a blog group that thinks I'm not contributing enough to music...I ran into your comment at there and over reacted.
Sorry.
Anyway...I'm way jealous of Canada.
I loved BALA and Muskoka when up there.
Barry has a great theater and friendly folk everywhere.
Just a bad day for me...
Again, sorry.