It was the future: the year 2016 and gay

by Martin McNarobochs. The End. The class was quiet. Mrs. Marsch dediced it was time to tell the story of Blue Town where everyone had to be blue all the time. When Rosa was born

, the cord had been wrapped around her neck. Subsequently, Rosa was blue from Day One. Later she married Buster Fugate, one of the famous "Blue People" of Kentucky & they begat

to make music with old, pvc piping. It sounded pretty alright, so they gathered up some more "blue" people and formed a music group, thusly named "the blue man group" and played

some odd piping tunes, not unlike one might hear in a barbershop. The music sounded like potpourri smelled and the Blue Man Group rode the high of its own histamines. Vile people.

But the vilest have to be the Thrown Down. They, of all of them, know what has been lost. From the highest high to the lowest low. That was their punishment, knowing without forget

-ting that what once had been utopia for them had, in actuality, been hell for everyone else. Down they fell, into the molten Lucite, to be preserved as cautionary villains forever

Remembered in the 1000 page novel I was about to write. It is 17 months later and I am only at page 169. Long after this story is folded, I will be working on this novel.

The novel will be the story of all of the people in a certain tenement block, told from the perspective of the plumber, who is also an opera singer. It's called "He's Got Pipes".

A prequel is also in the works - "He's got Poops" - that traces the events leading to his choice of profession, & details the agony that elicited the shrieks that brought him fame.