Back to Library© Mark Becker 1994
During the fall semester of 1994, I took an English Literature class at Calvin College, and for our first paper, the prof. assigned a creative writing paper. It could have been a short-story, poetry, or even a short play, and had to be in some way related to what we had read so far. (We had just finished looking at some African- American literature.) I wracked my brain for ideas, the Sunday before the rough-draft was due, and finally decided to write a Star Wars-related story, if just because it was "what I know". In order to tie it in with the class, I decided to pursue a theme of racial steriotyping, and thus the adventure of Aeicha the Jawa began to be formed. I sat for the next few hours at my roommate's computer, and banged away at it, until I was done.
Some minor modifications were done to the grammar and punctuation after the rough draft was discussed in class, and more after the final draft was turned in and returned. (The prof. really liked the paper, largely because, as he even said, he is also a Star Wars buff.) One name was altered, the Gammorean neighbor, due to the fact that the original name I used was taken directly from a novel that I once read, and I didn't want to infringe any more copyrights than I had to.
After polishing the story thus, it sat around for a while, until I got up the courage to post it to the rec.arts.sf.starwars newsgroup, where it got a neutral-to-warm reception (as far as I can tell -- only one forward was posted in regards to the story, and that was basically praise; I only got one e-mail response to it, which was also basically praise; but other than that, it seemed to go unnoticed).
If you read the story here, please e-mail me, and tell me what you think. My e-mail address is at the bottom of the page, but I have finally figured out how to set up one of those direct-feedback e-mail things, so you can use that too.
This story is my work, and copyrighted by me, but some of the locations and species mentioned are copyrighted by or trademarks of Lucasfilm Ltd., and are used without permission or malicious intention.
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