Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Ken Oguss - The Story Space - Supplemental Notes.

 

SUPPLEMENTAL NOTES ABOUT THE STORIES SHARED.


KEN OGUSS 

Featured Teller On

The Story Space

November 30, 2021   



·      HOW MY FATHER NEARLY FLEW AWAY ON A KITE,  

A Family Myth set on the beaches of Far Rockaway, New York in 1923.

Here is a story I wrote about my father recorded on my SoundCloud channel.  It is an imagined conversation between my young father and my grandmother while she makes sweet and sour cabbage soup.

A JEWISH ATHLETE.

Copyright ©  2011 by Ken Oguss
All Rights Reserved.

https://soundcloud.com/kenoguss/a-jewish-athlete

 

·      ABOUT TATU THE CHIMPANZEE 

With Whom I Worked At The University Of Nevada-Reno In 1977.

https://www.friendsofwashoe.org/meet/tatu.html

 

·      THE ORIGIN OF BLACK CATS.

Copyright ©  2019 by Ken Oguss All Rights Reserved. 

Created on October 24, 2019 for Jamie Sellhorn’s 5th grade students at The Fortune Academy in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Prompts: Black Cats, The Planet Mars, The Number 99.

May be told with permission request made in writing to the author kenoguss@gmail.com

https://soundcloud.com/kenoguss/the-origin-of-black-cats

(Note:  motif of learning the ways of a fierce beast to get whiskers 

borrowed from namesake folk tale in: 

The Lion's Whiskers and Other Ethiopian Tales.

collected by Brent Asbabranner)

Publisher Linnet Books, 1997.

 

·      PEACHES AND CREAM, a screenplay.

Copyright ©  2020 by Ken Oguss All Rights Reserved.

Prompt:  “Living in a liminal world.”

“The types of things Greta dreams about and their connection to the outside world are based on what I read in the linked article below. In the article the patient in a coma says how cold she felt (due to the special cooling pillows used to keep her fever in check.) I read up on coma patients to be sure that they actually do have dreams that slip in and out of lucidity. I used a flying dream as a reaction to having her limbs moved by the nurses. Flying dreams are often connected to feelings of empowerment. I love that feeling of being able to swim up into the air and fly.” Ken Oguss

Being In A Coma Is Like One Long Lucid Dream.

https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/ppx3z7/being-in-a-coma-is-like-one-long-lucid-dream-511?fbclid=IwAR3n7AVCQ_9VC3tXokgWSoHs6EElwadlTLkD_FzA4j-ffCheJ6SarhwmoIw

 

·      BREAKFAST AT THE UP TOP CAFÉ, short fiction.

Copyright ©  2020 by Ken Oguss.

All rights reserved.

Prompt: “Country Preacher” performed by the Adderly Cannonball Quintet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znTZCNxRk-0

 


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