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"Cover" Stories
By tat_2man
11 March 2008
This is a joke on myself and bands that do cover songs. It seems that sometimes I get a great idea for a story and I begin writing and then I realize it is a great story.....that has already been written. You know how it is you read something and later it comes out in your writing. Well I wondered what would happen if I just kept writing and this is what came of it.

Local Writer Decides To Do “Cover” Stories

 

    A local wordsmith has announced that he will be doing “cover” stories of some of the more famous writers. The local man, named I.P Freely, made the announcement on his website istealwriting.com. Many of you may not be familiar with “cover” stories because I.P. has just recently “discovered” this new method of writing. I.P. explains that he came up with it when he noticed how many bands did other bands songs and called them “covers”. So he asked himself why can’t writers do the same thing.


    I.P.'s first real roadblock came when he announced he was in the midst of writing his first book and it would be titled “A Cujo cover”. Cujo being one of the many books of the famous Stephen King. I.P. had posted a snippet of his future book and there were many cry’s of plagiarism. As I.P. states “Of course it is the same it is a “Cover” book. It is in honor of Stephen that I spent so much time typing out Cujo.” Stephen King’s lawyers did not seem to understand the “cover” book idea either. After seeing I.P.’s website they had it shut down and now they are suing I.P. for plagiarism and using Stephen’s name without permission. I.P., who lives in his mother’s basement, after he learned of the lawsuit was quoted as saying. “Some artists are just never understood.”

 

Copyright 2008 The Associated Anti-Press

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Written by fellpony (1507 comments posted) 11th March 2008
Yes, the concept of paying to reuse something has escaped your man, hasn't it. Nice take.

Written by coosh (822 comments posted) 12th March 2008
Nice idea, book covers, and an entertaining image of a guy typing out Stephen King. Ultimately you could just replicate anything, fake the lot of 'em... how about a cover version of a tarpaulin?... or "Lid Zeppelin"?... I'll get ma koot... Particulary enjoyed the final quote, nice concept and great fun.

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