The Starving Artist and the Chimp
By Cat Oars
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There are many ways to tell a story. Four authors construct dramas featuring a starving artist and a chimp, and each story forms a chapter, and the chapters form a narrative. You've never read anything like it. I know that because I've tried to find something to compare it to. And I couldn't. Fasten your seat belts. You're in for a quite a ride. Have a look at the other Cat Oars books, too.
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The Starving Artist and the Chimp - Cat Oars
The Starving Artist
and the Chimp
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Table of Contents
Part I
Part II
Part III
Part IV
Talker’s Question
Notes
Part I
I FOUND A STRANGE TEXT in a notebook on Saturday. Someone left it behind at the park near my office. Does anyone know who wrote it or what it means? I have copied the contents below:
I was at my computer, reading the entries on the Craigslist Literary & Writing forum and one in particular caught my attention. It was from a writer in another city. He posted with the handle of Talker and had an idea, but wasn’t sure he had found the best way to execute it. Maybe it was a she. But the subject seems a very guy
thing to write about. So let’s say the writer is a male.
For the purposes of his story, his starving artist had to come into possession of a chimp. The writer’s first thought was that the way to do this would be to have the starving artist work at the zoo. But then he wondered if there were a better way to get the starving artist and the chimp together, so he was asking for the participants in the forum to share their ideas.
I had to get back to work, so I signed off. But the writer’s question stuck in my mind. And I thought I came up with a good idea. But by the time I returned to the forum, someone named Ghost of Majestic had posted an idea that was similar – but not identical – to mine. He suggested making the starving artist an animal activist who liberates the chimp from a lab.
I had also thought the chimp would be liberated from a lab, but I thought the starving artist would’ve come upon the lab by chance – passing by, delivering a package, something like that – not through activism. Ghost of Majestic’s idea was a good one, though, and as it was pretty close to mine, I didn’t add my contribution and went back to work.
But the story intrigued me and I starting