I Will Love You For 1000 Years
by Garrett Carkos
Genre: Romance (Coming of Age)
A summer romance by a lake
turns to forever love. He was born with a gold spoon in his mouth. She was born
deaf. Yet, somehow they knew they had found their soul mates. At the end of
summer, they blew kisses across the lake, not knowing if they would ever meet
again. Years later, they did. The world was their oyster as they traveled the
world in style. Their journey of self discovery had them running with the bulls
in Pamplona and even enduring the Camino de Santiago, a 700 mile hike known as
'the way'. They had it all. Everyone said they were the happiest and most beautiful
couple in the world. Then during a routine Christmas visit back home in
Manhattan, everything changed. One would survive. The other wouldn't.
My
father was Greek, my step-mother was Italian. I was born in Amsterdam, a
product of one of my fathers indiscretions, which should explain why my moral
compass is stuck on 'it's ok'.
My
family was in the shipping business worldwide. My early years were mostly in
Europe and South America. Columbia, Venezuela, Brazil mostly. Living a life of
privilege was my heritage, but never realized it until we moved to America.
My teen
years were spent in California where I graduated from Beverly Hills High
School. Then it was off to Las Vegas and UNLV where I received my degree in
marketing. From there, I was off to NYU where I received my degree in
journalism.
I
apprenticed at NBC for one year as a copy writer, but the chaos of living in
Manhattan and the drudgery of touching up field reporters notes were just too
much. I disliked cold weather anyway, so I jetted back to Hollywood and went to
work in the family business, Carkos Global, as Director of Acquisitions.
It was
in Morocco that I first began writing short stories. At first, I thought of it
more as a journal or dairy, a way of keeping track of my escapades, but
somewhere along the way I discovered I had a knack for erotica and began ghost
writing for men's magazines.
I've
written over three hundred short stories and published many of them online.
Basically, any online publishing site I could find, hey...I slapped something
up.
I tend
to write things that men can read while getting a haircut, women under hair
dryers, factory workers on bathroom breaks, or curious teens behind the garage.
Where
my father focused on building his empire, mother was very passionate about the
arts; music, painting, opera, sculpting, literature...without which the world
would be all vanilla with no toppings.
In my
latest story, "I Will Love You For A Thousand Years" I mention
hearing Shakespeare from my moms smoky lips (she was a chain smoker) while
sitting for hours in the Louve in Paris staring at the masters. I had no clue
at eight years old what she saw, or what she was saying, but felt it was
important so I soaked it up with my chin in my hands.
My
inspiration comes from anything: a sight, a sound, a smell, a neatly turned
phrase I hear on TV, kids playing in a park, or simply draw something from my
real life and suddenly, I have a story.
I am
currently single and living the life in the greatest city in the world. What
happens here, stays here...as it should.
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