I need a USB port on the side of my head so that I could be hooked up to a computer and my story ideas—well the entire story—downloaded to a Word document. Maybe someday I will actually have the time to do all the writing I would like to. Until then I’ll just keep jotting down story ideas on crumpled up pieces of paper and saving them for the days when I have nothing to do but write.
Lately I’ve been thinking of a lot of historical fiction stories…mostly short stories that would take only a hundred pages or less to tell. The one that has kept me awake lately is about Jesus (most of the historical fiction ideas I have relate to Jesus in one way or the other). In this story a Jewish man encounters the resurrected Christ. They have a great time together, eating and drinking wine. Well the wine fills their bladder and they must relieve themselves…like guys not in the company of women do they find a nice tree to go against. The guy happens to look over and notices Jesus is not circumcised (his resurrected body has been healed—some will scream John 20:27 at this point…to them I say “blah, blah, blah”). The man, even though he has felt the love of Jesus in their fellowship, decides that Jesus is at best a renegade Jew who was never circumcised and is now leading people away from the one true God. He plots to kill Jesus…
CNN correspondant: "Why? Why did you kill Jesus?"
ReplyDeleteKiller: "I didn't like the look of his foreskin."
That would be a headline.