Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Short story explanation

Alright, first one is a flop, lucky I did not sign up for Geraldine's writers club.


Writer says:

When I wrote this, I imagined my own internal conflict. The names are my own, Justin Alexius Faith, although I never mentioned Faith in the short narration.
Justin shot Faith, with Alexius by both men's side. I was trying to portray the aftermath of an inner fight between two personalities, with a third acting as a neutral.
The hall is supposed to represent the emptiness of the human mind, the corner where the different conflicting personalities meet. What I believe, in every person, whether schiziophrenic or not, there are more than two personalities. It is just that some are more normal than others because they have a more dominant personality which overcomes the submissive one.
The sentences like "I loved him" are the thoughts of the person himself, the real man 'outside' this fight: The man who is walking on the real world.
I also tried to portray the mystical powers in the human mind by showing first that Justin dropped the gun, then re-appearing again in the last scene.
Obviously, there was something Alexius could have done to stop the 'bloodshed', but she didn't. Some split personas are like that, acting on a neutral basis and forbidding themselves to participate in any source of conflict, even if they can stop it.
And of course, Justin's personality overcame Faith's personality, but which one was the better one, no one will ever know.

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