Okay, I know I said I was hesitant to post my work online for fear of my ideas being stolen. Well, I came up with a story I could post. Why? Because the idea has already been stolen! For one of my workshops we had to read a short story called “The Hit Man” I don’t know who wrote it because I sold the book back years ago.
The plot was this: You follow a hit man through his life. His birth, his first memory, his first child, who becomes a killer too, etc. And that’s basically it. The assignment for the class was to pick a different character and do the same thing, follow it through its life. Someone did a watermelon, another did an ant. I think there was a nurse too, but I’m not sure. I wrote about the ice cream man. I didn’t take the assignment that seriously. The last part references “The Hit Man.” Anyway, here it is:
The Ice Cream Man
By Lauren Correy
First Memory
When the electricity goes out in the Ice Cream Man’s home, he runs to the freezer to eat all the ice cream before it melts. His parents laugh and join in.
Empty Spaces 