Mr. T Can't Dance and George Saunders Stole My Stories
By TJ Seitz
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Short story about a man who believes that author George Saunders stole his notebooks when they were roommates in college.
TJ Seitz
On the surface Mr. Seitz appears to be a quintessential middle aged male. TJ is married to his HS sweetheart and lives with his family in a suburban split level house located on the outskirts of Rochester, NY.Seitz has spend the majority of his professional career working as an information technology specialist in the fields of education, criminal justice/law enforcement and procurement.While working full time, TJ also attended college part time (and sometimes full time). To keep himself (relatively speaking) sane he majored and minored in non-technology subjects, earning a BA in English with a writing concentration from Saint John Fisher College and a MA in Social Policy from Empire State College.As an undergraduate student TJ attended writing classes taught by George Saunders and Judith Kitchen (though neither teacher would probably remember him). Distractions like kicking virtual wasp’s nests on BITNET Listservs (predecessors to social networking sites like Facebook), soliciting donations for a Panty Alter fund and hanging out with a heavily medicated professional drummer named Dirtbag interfered with TJ’s ability to write anything particularly noteworthy for either class. He also attended a workshop at the Omega Institute mentored by Marge Piercy and Ira Wood.In reality the stable full time jobs have been serving as functional fronts for TJ’s secret life as a writer. They provided him with money to pay his bills and experiential material to write about. The down side of working and going to college was that he did not have a lot of time to devote to writing and publishing. Adding a problematic first marriage, babies, a divorce, a few bouts with unemployment and colon cancer to the mix did not help much either.TJ is currently working on several writing projects/ideas and recently took a graduate writing class proctored by James Whorton.Mr. Seitz's essays and letters have been printed in both local and national publications. His poetry has been published both in the United States and England.
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Mr. T Can't Dance and George Saunders Stole My Stories - TJ Seitz
Mr. T Can’t Dance and George Saunders Stole My Stories!
T.J. Seitz
Copyright 2017 by T.J. Seitz
Smashwords Edition
Chapter 1
It all dawned on me soon after that cheap bathroom faucet blew up in my face.
Mr. T just got kicked off that popular dancing show I was watching with Mamma and Aunt Cora in the other room.
Both are nurses that work long hours and don’t get a lot of down time. In between shifts they often immerse themselves in reality TV programs. They call them soap operas for people who have jobs in the afternoon. Their favorite one (which I can’t stand) involves a bunch of nutty people locked together in a small house for several weeks.
Mamma hollered, What’s takin’ so long!? I only tolds ya to gets a glass of water, not fur youz to digs me a well!
I shouted back, The sink’s broken! The water needs to be turned off before it floods everything!
Cora interjected with, It’s almos’ bedtime! You was tolds to gets some water. Don’t argue wid us! I’ll call da plumber guy. He’ll look at it!
I was down on all fours looking for the shut-off valve