Written a few short stories. Not much else. Ended up getting an MBA and working for an investment firm. Got placed as CEO of a distressed company in their portfolio 4 years ago and been there since. Sports and Entertainment. Doesn’t leave much time for anything else. Especially as I’m a single parent to a five year old little girl too.
Story is hard to explain. But here it is in a couple of sentences.....It about the nature of luck and how it affects life cumulatively. Two identical twins whose paths diverge over 45 years through series of minor differences day to day attributed to luck. One is a CEO, the other very particular type of scientist. The “unlucky” one ultimately discovers that luck is a tangible thing that can be isolated in a compound, and he manages to develop a serum in small concentrations. The sort of concentrations that would give you every day great luck. As it progresses, he is able to stabilise it to work in larger concentrations and generate more outrageous turns of fortune.It’s not until it’s seemingly almost too late that he realised that he and his twin are inextricably linked through their luck profiles and by making himself “lucky” he has been making his previously lucky brother become unlucky. Because things have always just worked out for the lucky brother, when fortunes turn his whole world turns out to be a house of cards as he’s taken outrageous risks, and now it’s all coming crashing down. In a final twist, the newly lucky brother seeks to give his twin a huge dose of the serum to redress the balance, knowing he will consequently suffer a proportionate dose of bad luck. Self sacrifice if you will. But while he can induce the events, he can’t control how they manifest; meaning a huge sense of irony to both their fates.
Sounds a bit shit i know. But there were some nice plot points, and I loved the ending. Most of the drama and humour was dark and dry. Somewhere in the In Bruges or The Weatherman genre, but nowhere near as good.