Big Foot and other stories
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Big Foot is an unpublished audio drama many years in the making where the commission, of no pecuniary value, was implied, never actually stated. It tells the story of the mythical creature, "Living in the mountains, living off the earth, like a wild animal," of Buffy Wilt, Big Foot's last human lover, and of the various denizens of Cliff County who by the end of the story seem more like wild animals than Big Foot himself. The plan is eventually to produce a claymation version, where the musical part of the soundtrack focuses on percussion sounds. That would be the finished, probably pornographic, "Tale of the Old Man" coming alive.
In the meantime, Buffy gave birth to a boy, Adam, the normal human child of her sole union with Big Foot. Buffy left her comfortable life with J.J. before the pregnancy became obvious, and ended up working in Angel's neighborhood bar and grill. As Adam grows up, the political and economic world gradually crumble around them, and Angel's becomes a community hub. Adam takes an apprenticeship with a local master grower, named Jane, who teaches Adam as much about psychology as she does about compost and planting. After Adam becomes romantically involved with Nancy, the storyteller, he begins to see the implications of what Jane has been teaching him, and aims to go deeper.
To Buffy, Adam explains his desire to understand his relationships with his parents. The two of them don't get very far as Adam's relationship with his mother is pretty normal. Adam asks to know his father. Up to this point, Buffy has never let him know who his father was, always letting Adam think it was probably J.J., after painting J.J. in a bleak light. When she explains to Adam that Big Foot was his father, Adam first suspects her hard life has taken its toll on her sanity, and moves out, ostensibly to care for a sick old man, Bob, who used to work with J.J. Then Adam finds a half-finished interview in Nancy's hand, a transcript of Buffy telling her the story of Big Foot, finishing with an admonition to tell the whole story to Adam if anything happens to her.
Bob, a mostly dogmatic materialist, tells Adam that his mother is probably suffering from some sort of... misunderstanding, and Adam lets it go. Until Bob, under the influence of a toothache without medication begins channelling the spirit of Big Foot who died before Adam was born.
Nancy encourages Adam to study magic as a means to communicate with his real father. Adam finds it quite difficult. He speaks of this difficulty with Jane, who confirms that it's not easy, but worth the effort.
After that it gets sketchy. Characters seem stuck in holding patterns and the plot goes nowhere for a while. There's news at Angel's of impending catastrophe and war, but nothing happens. Adam's making very little progress in his studies.
Nancy is experiencing writer's block and cannot keep the sequel to Big Foot going.
Big Foot is an unpublished audio drama many years in the making where the commission, of no pecuniary value, was implied, never actually stated. It tells the story of the mythical creature, "Living in the mountains, living off the earth, like a wild animal," of Buffy Wilt, Big Foot's last human lover, and of the various denizens of Cliff County who by the end of the story seem more like wild animals than Big Foot himself. The plan is eventually to produce a claymation version, where the musical part of the soundtrack focuses on percussion sounds. That would be the finished, probably pornographic, "Tale of the Old Man" coming alive.
In the meantime, Buffy gave birth to a boy, Adam, the normal human child of her sole union with Big Foot. Buffy left her comfortable life with J.J. before the pregnancy became obvious, and ended up working in Angel's neighborhood bar and grill. As Adam grows up, the political and economic world gradually crumble around them, and Angel's becomes a community hub. Adam takes an apprenticeship with a local master grower, named Jane, who teaches Adam as much about psychology as she does about compost and planting. After Adam becomes romantically involved with Nancy, the storyteller, he begins to see the implications of what Jane has been teaching him, and aims to go deeper.
To Buffy, Adam explains his desire to understand his relationships with his parents. The two of them don't get very far as Adam's relationship with his mother is pretty normal. Adam asks to know his father. Up to this point, Buffy has never let him know who his father was, always letting Adam think it was probably J.J., after painting J.J. in a bleak light. When she explains to Adam that Big Foot was his father, Adam first suspects her hard life has taken its toll on her sanity, and moves out, ostensibly to care for a sick old man, Bob, who used to work with J.J. Then Adam finds a half-finished interview in Nancy's hand, a transcript of Buffy telling her the story of Big Foot, finishing with an admonition to tell the whole story to Adam if anything happens to her.
Bob, a mostly dogmatic materialist, tells Adam that his mother is probably suffering from some sort of... misunderstanding, and Adam lets it go. Until Bob, under the influence of a toothache without medication begins channelling the spirit of Big Foot who died before Adam was born.
Nancy encourages Adam to study magic as a means to communicate with his real father. Adam finds it quite difficult. He speaks of this difficulty with Jane, who confirms that it's not easy, but worth the effort.
After that it gets sketchy. Characters seem stuck in holding patterns and the plot goes nowhere for a while. There's news at Angel's of impending catastrophe and war, but nothing happens. Adam's making very little progress in his studies.
Nancy is experiencing writer's block and cannot keep the sequel to Big Foot going.
