Forum: Lost Stories

When the protagonist turns 18, his adoptive father informs him that he is heir to billions from the Stone Family Trust.

Not really an adoptive father from a legal perspective.

IIRC, in Too Much Love, the protagonist was the product of an extramarital affair that his mother had.

The man who raised him was her husband at the time, so legally he would have been the protagonist's father from the day he was born. No adoption required.

In pretty much all US states, if a married woman has a child, her husband is the child's father in the eyes of the law even if he's not biologically the child's father.

IIRC his mother was raped by her lover, just before he killed himself boating while drunk. Thus the pregnancy. His mother then ended up dead, drunk driving with a female lover. His legal father is an anti-establishment socialist and former writer, so the MC has a full back story as to why he is a socialist,RPG writer with a tendency to depression, polyamory and fear of addiction.

One of the best long form stories on SOL imho.

From the comments at the end of Too Much Love:

Radagast
2020-11-12 11:11:00am
Some trivia for the nerds like me.
L'Ecole Coppet des Jeunes Filles made an appearance in Vulgar Argot's Second Billing, way back in 2004.
The Stone family appeared in Cold Creek's Stone Inc in 2012. I wonder if there will be any cameos by the characters in TML.
Replies: Tom Frost

Tom Frost
2020-11-12 3:11:38pm
@Radagast
That Vulgar Argot fellow sure sounds like a talented writer (wink, wink, nudge, nudge.)
I never heard of Cold Creek before this, but I'll take a look.

So no, apparently great authors are influenced by the same muse, and if you like Tom Frost, have a look at Vulgar Argot's work.

Apropos Vulgar Argot, his only remaining blog post.

when I saw the question about looking for the Stone family, the first thing I thought of was 'The Rolling Stones' by Robert Heinlein

You are not alone!

HM.

Me too.

I guess we know his position on The Rolling Stones versus The Beatles.

Probably not.
His book was published in 1952, the (British) band was formed in 1962.
If he disliked the usage of his book title as the band's name, he couldn't do anything against it.
• his book was published under the name Space Family Stone in the UK, not as The Rolling Stones
• even if there were an exclusive right of the author concerning the title, it wouldn't cover the use as a band name.
• Rolling Stones or Rolling Stone is often used, especially as song title:

Songs
"Rollin' Stone" (Muddy Waters song), 1950
"Like a Rolling Stone", a 1965 song by Bob Dylan from the album Highway 61 Revisited
"Rolling Stone" (Suzi Quatro song), 1972
"Rolling Stone", a 1975 song by David Essex
"Rolling Stone", a 2011 song by The Weeknd from the album Thursday
"A Rolling Stone", 1980 song by Grace Jones
Other uses
Rolling Stone is an American magazine focusing on popular culture.
The Rolling Stone (magazine), a humorous weekly magazine founded in Austin, Texas in 1891 by William Sydney Porter, aka O. Henry.
Rolling Stone (Uganda), newspaper
"A rolling stone gathers no moss", proverb
Rollin' Stoned, 2002 album by Kottonmouth Kings

Rollingstone may refer to several locations:
Rollingstone, Queensland, Australia
Rollingstone, Minnesota, U.S.
Rollingstone Creek, a stream in Minnesota

Rolling Stone (Uganda) was a very short-lived hateful tabloid.

HM.

You missed "Papa was a Rollin' Stone" by The Temptations (1972) [there were a bunch of other versions]

You missed "Papa was a Rollin' Stone"

I probably missed some others, too.
The time I spend searching was shorter than the time needed to write the posting.
I'm a slow writer, even in my native German. :-(

HM.

Tut mir leid, ich hatte die Uhrzeit der Posting nicht berücksichtigt - kurz vor zwei, nachts. Ohne mich.

Sorry, my post should have contained a sniley to show it was in jest.

A sniley? = Part sneer/part smile?

And the second was Sly and the Family Stone.