Origins of Shame

Origins of Shame is a coming of middle-age story about a superhero who I created in partnership with the good Tryke Kemnitz, who I'm sure won't mind me sharing some of these stories with you. The world that Tryke and I created involved a Midwestern branch of the Justice League, which was really a training ground/high school for "Metropolitan" heroes-proper. Tryke has the rejection letters from DC somewhere. If the story sounds familiar, Your thinking of Disney's "Sky High". A lot of that movie was pretty much exactly what Tryke and I created 15 years prior. That happens sometimes. It happened to tyke and I often. Keith Geffen, I'm looking at you.

“Origins of Shame” was always supposed to be a story about depression, although I didn’t know it when I wrote the first part of the story. Originally, the third part was a third-person telling of Gordy catching a burglar, but bungling it and falling off the roof and screwing up an undercover investigation.

Also, watch for the names of some of the other famous characters who went to the same college as Gordy. Cameos! Of people you’ve never heard of! Fun!

This story was originally Podcast in three parts on Writelarge.com.