JANE GEORGE See Jane Write
The story of X-It is largely inspired by my early years. And no, you don't get to know which parts are truth and which are fiction. So much time has passed, my memory has turned it all to fiction anyway. And after it's published, there will be that fancy disclaimer in the front of the book saying I made it all up.
One night, I dreamed a single complete, intense scene from Big Green, the rest of the story was built from many, many painful re-writes.
X-IT
1980 and 1981 were good years for tragedies; Reagan’s election, Lennon’s death, Diana’s marriage, and the tale of X-It and J.J.
1980: Eighteen year old J.J. Buckingham, penniless, punk, and psychic, arrives in New York City’s East Village from San Francisco. J.J. had hoped to ditch the charismatic Marko Voodoo and his freaky entourage by moving to New York, but they follow her. She meets the brilliant artist and bicycle messenger, X-It, and quickly falls into unconditional (and unrequited) love. In an attempt to win X-It’s affection, J.J. succumbs to Marko’s dark machinations so she can become the underground art world’s equivalent of Holly Golightly. Too late, she realizes that in so doing she has condemned X-It to addiction and likely death. The revelation of X-It’s homosexuality renders her charade pointless. J.J. then risks her new relationship with the highly functional, potential savior Michael, in order to try and save X-It.
Hey, it’s the Eighties. Sex, Drugs, and … Redemption?
X-IT was a finalist in the 2004 Frontiers in Writing Contest.
BIG GREEN
Ingenuous Stanford co-ed, Sara Mott, is searching for authenticity in her life. She falls for a trust-funder philosophy student who worships Friedrich Nietzsche and whose secret hobby is identity theft.
He betrays her. His ties to an organized fraud ring plunge her into an all-too-real underworld. She not only survives, but sets into motion a techno triple-cross revenge.
How does one steal an identity thief’s identity?
As Sara learns how, she dares to trust again and discovers an unlikely true love, a love she must play false in order to save her younger brother caught in the web woven by her own naiveté.
