Indian Creek- a short story

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splitter

Trad climber

Cali Hodad, surfing the galactic plane ~:~

Dec 17, 2012 - 03:48pm PT

You don't have to like everybody in your tribe, but you do have to love them.

WORD!!

Thanks for sharing with us, bro!

10b4me

Boulder climber

Somewhere on 395

Dec 17, 2012 - 05:52pm PT

very good. I would have paid to see the Koreans reaction when they saw you

roadman

climber

Dec 17, 2012 - 06:27pm PT

nice.
thanks.

grammie lou

Sport climber

big pine,ca

Dec 17, 2012 - 09:26pm PT

so sad, but great story, steve.

Roadie

Trad climber

Bishop, Ca

Topic Author's Reply - Dec 18, 2012 - 03:14pm PT

Thank you everyone for the warm replies. As was pointed out earlier, I first published this piece in R&I in late 2008. After the horrendous events of last Friday, however, I felt it was a good time to blow the dust off it and give it a new birth in this forum. I hope all will keep it in mind through the holiday season and beyond.

For the record, I never put on the purple thong and was clad in only my harness when the Koreans returned. What do ya take me for!

SS

Hummerchine

Trad climber

East Wenatchee, WA

Dec 18, 2012 - 10:45pm PT

A dear friend and my main climbing partner sent me a link to that wonderful tale...

The link was broken.

He then told me the name of the thread, I found it.

My response to him:

"Whoa dude…I had no idea I would be reading anything remotely that profound. With no warning whatsoever I started crying near the end.

That was DEEP. I swear…SuperTopo is such a mix of LAME and ASTOUNDING!

Brilliant. Thanks so much for sharing that."

F10

Trad climber

Bishop

Dec 19, 2012 - 11:07pm PT

Thanks for the story

Fossil climber

Trad climber

Atlin, B. C.

Dec 19, 2012 - 11:39pm PT

Great stuff, Roadie. We usually learn this stuff too late in life. Thanks for the awareness - and the good writing.

RyanD

climber

Squamish

Dec 20, 2012 - 12:12am PT

Thanks dude, keep em coming. That was a tough one but some amazing insights in there. Cheers.

lubbockclimber

Trad climber

lubbock,tx

Dec 20, 2012 - 01:33am PT

Thanks bump

Rockin' Gal

Trad climber

Boulder

Dec 20, 2012 - 01:03pm PT

Brought tears to my eyes. Thanks for reminding us what's important in life.

cultureshock

Trad climber

Mountain View

Jan 10, 2013 - 06:41pm PT

Bump!

RyanD

climber

Squamish

Aug 14, 2013 - 03:59am PT

Bump!

Norwegian

Trad climber

dancin on the tip of god's middle finger

Aug 14, 2013 - 08:52am PT

i enjoy.
i've only one suggestion / correction to offer you;

and that is in regards to your written sentiment
that we all will die.

you're passive verb tense is off by 1 order of spacial position.

i defy your wisdom,
because i am dead.
and thus you must revise your understanding
in order to accomodate the a-typical case: me.

i've life yet to exhaust, though my bio-beats
are merely an echo of my future demise;
my strides collide with earth only according to
the momentum of the electrical impluses that surge
from synapse to nerve.

i accidentally live;
rejecting well being with a stubborn resolve.

and don't get me wrong, im not suffering or sad,
this life-death interplay is quite a joy.

my ill habits reward me with peculiar curiosities
such as the magnificent white spider that
has claimed her spot outside of my cabin window,
which is usually lit according to my nocturnal theatres.

so as i alternate cups of coffee with cans of beer,
i sit and watch her grow bigger and bigger as the night
moths, they seek the light drug, and she's there to collect.

then the sun rises behind her web,
and she crawls up into the eve,
so i, like the night moth,
head east toward the light drug,
and get caught in some granite web,

only there's no creature to suck out my vital juice
so i play the role of that predator,
and i also co-star as the prey;

at the end of the day,
those silk purple panties that conceal the mystery's
void glide a little further down god's soft inner thigh.

couchmaster

climber

pdx

Aug 14, 2013 - 08:57am PT

"In fact, this is not a story about climbing at all. I only reach for and recall these events as I would for a crayon: to color in the outlines of our otherwise anonymous lives. And maybe to draw you in."

Well I got drawn in for sure. GREAT PIECE, you write excellently and the topic is on the money. Thank you for sharing the masterpiece, don't know how I missed it the first go round.

Oh, minor English Teacher moment: The word show should be slow? 6th paragraph from the bottom:

"Always a bit show on the uptake,..."