Letter from a Japanese Stranger

Someone who has never met me; someone who I have never met, wrote me a letter. Apparently, my parents had a small party at their house in late April. Most of their guests were japanese. One man, a japanese TV network employee, whose name I only know half of, went upstairs to my father's office to write the following to me. No one even knew he did this till the next day when my father found it on his desk:


Erin,
I wrote this piece for my black lady friend who lost her only son to a drive-by shooting:

"Whenever one hears anger or fear from another's voice, whenever one sees anger or fear from another's eyes; does such person crave for an addictive appetite for misery?"
                                                                                                                    Goto
                                                                                                                 '03 Okinawa, Japan

May the flowers of the new year bloom many smiles and laughter for you and your family.

Aloha,
"Jimmy" Goto
4/28/12

I received this August 13, 2012. I have no idea what this means. I want to look for this man. I have so many questions. Why me? Why me, out of all my siblings? What does this mean? Etc....

The Rinse

Almost two years since I walked in the rain to see what I could find; when I soon realized that I was not discovering something or someone, but really, I was finally found.
I waited for him in the rain. I specifically recall there was a meteor shower that night. Though I didn't see a single shooting star, I witnessed the important moments between me and him become literal, not abstract.

A story I wrote 4 years ago when I was hanging with Mary

I woke up I saw an owl that gaped its mouth open right over my chest. Just seconds later (oh, by the way, the owl's name is Zim.) Zim bit my rib and my loin. I tried to build a secret, neat orb to evade the owl. Once I made the orb it distracted Zim with showing him a movie about a coy cub playing with a horn. I had enough time to run away, but my shoe fell off. Stumbling down, I received a late tackle by him and immediately had to pee. Amazingly my pee was wine and the last thing Zim said before I passed out was, "hey, I hide old age teats in a dove jar". After this happened my pager went off. Dots began to appear around me as I scanned the room. Gosh! Wasn't that a crazy story!?

I can say the darnedest things

I was walking to my car from my apartment to go to work and kid from my complex was looking up at the sky. Being an avid looker into the night sky, I got excited about seeing the young eyes gazing the way I do. I popped up behind him and asked what he was thinking about. He turned toward  me and asked what a star actually is. And like I had thought about the answer before, I spewed the following:


Well, if you must know, a male starfish, one day, witnessed the beautiful night sky. He realized he needed to get up there to join his friends. -> He goes on the journey. -> After centuries had past, he understood, somehow, that he didn't belong in the sky, but in the ocean, with his family, all along. Never to return, the starfish began to cry. He cried and cried till one day, he evolved into a glowing, powerful, warm light. Now when you see the stars twinkling in the dark sky, you will know that it was every curious starfish who decided to ascend to the unknown. Sad but amazing, don't you think? 


The child was awe-struck and completely confused. I winked and walked backward slowly, got into my car and drove away.
I still have no idea why I said it. I don't know why I felt like I needed to say such a fib; maybe it was because I would've wanted answers such as this when I was growing up. What ever the real reason was, it felt good nonetheless.

A good plot for a teen book? Can I pull it off? Can I write a book about this?

It's the year 3019 AD. There is only 4% of land above the sea left on Earth due to global warming. Life is critical and unfortunate for the people living in this time. There are roughly 600,000 people left and 80% live on large ships used as floating islands. Each ship has its own way of life and has one leader who delegates, like how countries were 1000 years ago. But not everyone is completely human. Some evolved since the second flood.

Now there is one large island that used to be known as Japan, now called Sector 9, with much smaller land forms scattered around the rest of the planet. It is the center of their world: a kingdom that struggles to maintain life, peace, reconstruction, and hope to the citizens of the watery planet.

The problem - rumors are spreading of the overthrowing of the kingdom. People are getting impatient with the way of life. They want their Earth back. There is only one thing that can preserve peace and eliminate human extinction; the prophecy of the Staff of Terrain. While the King and Queen scramble to find a plan to get the staff, their daughter, next in line to the throne, sneaks out to try and find it herself, so her family can restore the land and create habitable living conditions for everyone. When her parents catch wind of this, a throng of search soldiers go out to find her.

This is a story of a human princess who takes a journey to save the earthlings from the people of their past. She meets several evolved creatures along the way, who recognize her determination, and the idea to regain peace, and join her. She finds herself in sticky situations and goes through trails, games, puzzles, and hardships to get to her destination. As she gets closer to finding the Staff of Terrain, she finds out that an evil and sinister man wants the staff for himself so he can rule the world. It soon becomes a race against time and foe.