I’ve been writing a lot since I’ve found Figment.
Mostly out of an apparent need for internet notoriety. I think I’m pretty great, but I seem to want other people to know it too.
This new category was started for particular stories that I feel the need to explain, or to delve more into my ideas about it.
The most recent one I wrote is called “Giant”: It’s a flash fiction story (100 words or less) written for the “These Days are Ours” contest on Figment. The prompt was that it must be set on the Empire State Building or another monument.
I will write an explanation of the story here. Obviously, this was what I was trying to convey, but I’m not too particularly worried if no one else really gets this out of the story.
The story is about a girl who looks out over New York City feeling dwarved and insignificant, and the Empire State Building is for her a daunting symbol of greatness. However, as she ponders the famous Isaac Newton quote, “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulder of giants.” there is a reversal in view of the “giant”. In order for anyone great to become great, they had to conquer the giant and climb onto its shoulder to see beyond. The final sentence was deliberate in word choice, “What is a giant but another beast to be conquered?” While the word “giant” has the connotation of greatness, “beast” aims to make the great seem a insignificant, just another obstacle.
Well my explanation is actually longer than the story itself.
It’s quite a different story than I usually write, I’m actually more proud of this one than the other ones I’ve written.
heiding away. 