A Talendar for Shirley
Peony D Beckside
With acknowledgement and
thanks to John Norman for creating the world of Gor, in which this story is
set.
Chapter Seven: Upskilling
Much of my time in
training at the slave-house is standard stuff.
Master, when instructing me to write of my experiences and feelings
since first meeting him, has redacted anything that he thinks is unoriginal;
been written of before, by others.
Risking
him reminding me about curiosity in kajirae, I had asked him...
“I
will obey Master, but why do you wish me to write my story?”
I had hoped that in
doing so, it might indicate the intended readership. That could effect how I phrase things.
I chuckle at her question.
“It pleases me to add to the mythos on Earth about the Planet Gor, especially since whatever you write, if published, will only ever be seen as fiction, never as fact. I will be adding my own version of events. A ghostwriter on Earth will hopefully dovetail the two stories into one coherent whole. Write it from the beginning, from when you first saw me, and write it in the sense of ‘now’, i.e. that something is happening, that you are having this thought, rather than it having happened in the past or you thought it in the past.”
