As you know if you read this blog, I happen to have a full website dedicated to storytelling. It’s called Inside The Monster’s Dollhouse: The Depravity of Innocence and I post little bits, things I write, every once in awhile. None of it is really particularly exciting. Everything short and ends before it seems to even start, which is what she said. But it’s not about that, really, honestly. It’s about a human need to tell stories. I think we all have it and just express it in different ways.

I write narratives that have allegories and subtexts that no one picks up on, and I try to force-feed them to people. Other people write things and hide them away, never wanting the world to see what they have created. Some people gossip at every turn, whenever they have a chance. Some people write poetry about how they’re feeling. Some people have their bodies tattooed to the point where you can’t tell what fleshtone they’d naturally have.

Everything we do is a form of storytelling. We sing, we dance, we sit motionless at the bottom of a pool. We tell stories. We listen to stories.

What makes a good story?

Well, the truth of the matter, just like the question “what is love” and “where do babies come from”, can never be explained. Because it changes from person to person. And that is what makes stories, and love, and fertilization so amazing. They are constants that are variable.

A story can be fantastic to me but shitty to you, etc. Love can mean one thing to somebody but another to somebody else. Babies can come from any variety of containers and substances put together in mad scientist ways and implanted in any avian found on the beach (dead or alive! although, dead’s more likely anymore considering the gulf coast disaster).

I never really payed attention in health class.

Who knows the point I’m trying to make…

Storytelling is humans trying to share something that they can see in their mind with somebody who can’t, but hopefully will. If it’s a good story.

Stories are the most important thing in the world, and we will never stop telling them. Humans or me.