SUPPLEMENTAL NOTES ABOUT THE STORIES SHARED.
KEN OGUSS
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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.
· 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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