Lee Chambers
Renegade Folk Hero
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I'm currently in the process of writing several stories at once, bouncing from one to the other as new parts come to me. One of the stories I'm working on is a story idea I brought up a couple of months back.
It's an incest brother/sister story with a touch of realism in it. In the story, the brother and sister are still in high school and are having a sexual relationship. At some point, their parents catch them. Instead of going the traditional route of the parents joining in, I wanted to write a story where the parents are disgusted and furious. In the end, the son is kicked out of the house and eventually disowned. The story is told entirely from the son's perspective so you don't know what the sister goes through until she reveals it to her brother later in the story.
After the brother is kicked out he stays with a friend until he finishes high school (which will only be a few months off) and after that, having no place to go, he joins the Marines. This time frame will take place just before the events of 9/11. Eventually the brother goes to war, fighting in both Afghanistan and Iraq, going through all the shit that we've heard soldiers go through, only he has no one to go home to when his time is finished.
Eventually his term of enlistment is up and he decides to leave the Marines, having grown sick by the horrors he's seen in the war. He makes the choice to go to college and try to build himself a normal life, but he suffers from post-traumatic stress and is constantly plagued by terrible nightmares.
Shortly after he goes to college his sister comes to see him. They haven't seen each other or spoken to each other since he was kicked out and she offers him a place to stay with her since she is now fully grown, finished with school, and is starting her own career. Over time the sister and brother rekindle their sexual relationship and through that relationship she is able to help her brother deal with the pain he suffers from his time in the war.
I'd like to know what any of you think of my idea and if you'd like to offer any advice or ideas of your own to help improve it. Thanks.
It's an incest brother/sister story with a touch of realism in it. In the story, the brother and sister are still in high school and are having a sexual relationship. At some point, their parents catch them. Instead of going the traditional route of the parents joining in, I wanted to write a story where the parents are disgusted and furious. In the end, the son is kicked out of the house and eventually disowned. The story is told entirely from the son's perspective so you don't know what the sister goes through until she reveals it to her brother later in the story.
After the brother is kicked out he stays with a friend until he finishes high school (which will only be a few months off) and after that, having no place to go, he joins the Marines. This time frame will take place just before the events of 9/11. Eventually the brother goes to war, fighting in both Afghanistan and Iraq, going through all the shit that we've heard soldiers go through, only he has no one to go home to when his time is finished.
Eventually his term of enlistment is up and he decides to leave the Marines, having grown sick by the horrors he's seen in the war. He makes the choice to go to college and try to build himself a normal life, but he suffers from post-traumatic stress and is constantly plagued by terrible nightmares.
Shortly after he goes to college his sister comes to see him. They haven't seen each other or spoken to each other since he was kicked out and she offers him a place to stay with her since she is now fully grown, finished with school, and is starting her own career. Over time the sister and brother rekindle their sexual relationship and through that relationship she is able to help her brother deal with the pain he suffers from his time in the war.
I'd like to know what any of you think of my idea and if you'd like to offer any advice or ideas of your own to help improve it. Thanks.