C.K. Milton
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Just a young aspiring writer, trying to make his mark on this world. Get it? Mark?Stories (2/0)
Changing of a Decade
Scott flips through the vinyls sitting on a shelf in his room, dusty old Chuck Berry albums mixed with a new Stones record and everything in between. There’s a few odd ones, like the Beach Boys and Shirelles, more of his mom’s music than his own, but they act as a nice break sometimes from the regular Hendrix riffs or gruff vocals of Black Sabbath. His parents are gone for the next few hours, giving him the perfect amount of time to blast his music uninterrupted for a while. He pulls off a 7” “Stairway to Heaven” single he found back when he was probably ten or so with his dad. The album art is relatively bland, but the song definitely made up for it. He also picks off "Road to Ruin" to listen to as well, especially considering his dad’s hatred for the Ramones meant he couldn’t listen to them when he was at home. He finds them dirty, ill-mannered, and unkempt with their matching shaggy hair and ill-fitting jeans.
By C.K. Milton6 years ago in Beat
Me: Untitled
Preface I do not want any future readers to believe that there is a “point” to this story—it is not about me, in all my adolescent and teenage glory learning the problems of life and how to deal with my angst in a coming-of-age sort of way. In no way, do I wish that young persons to follow in my footsteps for an idealistic “emerging from my ruins” moment, romanticized and frequently retold by numerous media in the 2010s world. I say this, because I know of many stories in which a lead protagonist, usually a teenager, goes through a traumatic event, or has a mental illness of some sort, that the story is either based around or is a driving force in the character’s decisions. In such stories, the illness, trauma, or even suicide is considered poetic, even beautiful.
By C.K. Milton6 years ago in Psyche