Ward Norcutt
Bio
Playwright and poet.
My goal as a writer is to write thoughtful pieces of prose, poetry and stage plays. Hopefully, the end results are entertaining and engaging, with layers of meaning that make sense to the whole or a theme therein.
Stories (123/0)
Me Too, Mom
There’s not much you don’t already know. I mean, before you died, there was so little we hadn’t already talked through, or cried over, or fought about. Or laughed at. There is the one thing, though. I never told you. I never told anyone. How do you tell your mom something like that? How do you tell anyone?
By Ward Norcutt2 years ago in Families
Peer Pressure
Now, I learned about reverse psychology when I was in grade 3. My favorite teacher of all time, Mrs. Matechuk - it was Beacon Heights Elementary in Edmonton - she gave me the book, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer as a gift. She even delivered it to my house, as I was home from school with yellow jaundice. That was a fine day for me and it stands out as one of my favorite childhood memories. In that book, there’s a story of Tom having to whitewash a fence as a consequence for misbehaving. He cons a whole bunch of his friends into doing this chore for him by pretending that it was fun. They even trade him stuff for the privilege - smart. Now imagine if you will, poor, young Nivedan, surrounded by three older Tom Sawyers. They persuaded this hapless boy into doing something really idiotic, and crazy dangerous by telling him exactly that! Reverse psychology!
By Ward Norcutt2 years ago in Humans