Message-ID: <26636asstr$970571402@assm.asstr-mirror.org> From: "Sean Farragher" X-Original-Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Subject: {ASSM} from TxM6: CJ Parker Photographer Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 07:10:02 -0400 Path: assm.asstr-mirror.org!not-for-mail Approved: Newsgroups: alt.sex.stories.moderated,alt.sex.stories Followup-To: alt.sex.stories.d X-Archived-At: X-Moderator-Contact: ASSTR ASSM moderation X-Story-Submission: X-Moderator-ID: dennyw, IceAltar Also From TxM6 Hyperfiction http://www.txm6.com (updated 10/03/00) http://www.txm6.com/enfer (updated 10/03/00) http://www.txm6.com/lcfallon http://www.farragher.com (Poetry updated 9/24/00) TxM6 is entirely a work of fiction for adults only. Copyright (c) 2000 Sean Farragher. 0229XC Peter Jackson on the CJ Murder The Sentinel: Bergen County's First Newspaper Founded 1887; By Peter Jackson Campbell. Raped, beaten, and left for dead, a reformed drug addict and innovative photographer, CJ Parker, clings to life at Englewood Hospital, another victim of the self styled "Genesis Killers, the self confessed but still at large, Abel and Lilith." CJ Parker's symbolic "photo-grams" have appeared in several top line art magazines and this newspaper. The Sentinel will republish Campbell's feature story from last April 4th in next Sunday's Centerfold Edition). She had resisted the sharks that would lead her to a final precipice for burial. CJ had survived drug addiction, and all the other associated evils, and now, for her reward, she fights for life a second time. Life, as a late President said, does not seem to be fair. I first met CJ two years ago at a Sentinel seminar for college students working against drugs. CJ does not use her last name as a signature to her work. "My work needs no ID. It speaks for itself. Labels confine and enslave," she said. Eight years ago she took the name, CJ, as she put it, as "the art of rebirth. Like many of us, CJ suffered physical and sexual abuse. Her childhood had been cruel and unwanted. Raped at seven by a stranger." A skinny man-boy passing through," she said. "I saw his demon and was worn by it." Addicted to heroin at fourteen, the former Cindy Jane Parker (now simply CJ) hustled as a prostitute for fifteen years. She filled her skin and veins with the indelible ache she suffered as a child. Ten years ago her much younger sister (who had also become a prostitute) died of a heroin OD. Some deep agony lifted CJ, killed the demon pushing her away from an early death. "I left the funeral," CJ said, "and I turned myself over to DETOX, methadone, and twelve steps later, I stopped using drugs and stealing myself short. I began to study myself and to know what I could complete." Running five, ten miles a day CJ purged the poison. Now, she paints with a camera, reads Yeats, write poems, and studies the modern painters, Miro and Klee. "I even drink mineral water, and I am not HIV positive" she told me during that first interview more than two years ago, at the methadone clinic. Her parting words rang positive. Predicted success. I'm not going to be stuck on this stuff [methadone] too, she tersely said. Fuck the doctors who would try and make me." -- Pursuant to the Berne Convention, this work is copyright with all rights reserved by its author unless explicitly indicated. +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | alt.sex.stories.moderated ----- send stories to: | | FAQ: Moderator: | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Archive: Hosted by Alt.Sex.Stories Text Repository | |, an entity supported entirely by donations. | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+