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Project Vulcan
Girl Shock Story Book
Outline of musical with music
(c) Copyright 2025, Maria Konner, Jackson Sturkey
The Book is now a new Musical Comedy!
The songs are completed as well as the story. But script still in progress.
Yes, it’s about sexuality, but contains much deeper meaning about our society – after all isn’t our sexuality a primary driver of our behavior? Maria, being a trans woman, provides a unique insight.
Maria is not only a fabulous pianist, guitarist, singer, host and personality in the NYC scene – she is also an engineer, cybersecurity and risk management executive, and ex-lobbyist. She sprinkles this knowledge and experience subtly into the story.
Becoming Maria is like becoming a superhero! But she’s in conflict with Dude, her secret identity.
And superhero’s all have 7 essential traits….
Original songs, recorded with a live band, are included in this brief DRAFT STORYBOOK intended for Producers, Directors, Friends, etc. Images are taken from the book.
Draft script / book is in development, this STORYBOOK is an outline.
We have done several sneak preview LIVE shows, see snippets and review
Maria Konner has teamed with co-writer and performer Jackson Sturkey who plays “Dude”, Maria as a man. Omar Kabir joins as music director and the horn section.
ACT ONE
Superhero Trait #1: The Backstory
Dude's pre-teen childhood of inspiration and hope
Back then Dude saw trans as just somebody to admire for their courage to resist pop culture trying to tell them who they are.
Dude sings:
Superhero Trait #2: The Nemesis
13-year-old Dude comes back to suburban NYC inspired and hopeful…until….
Dude sings about Inspiration and is interrupted by his Nemesis, The Monoculture Virus, who humiliates and emotionally castrates him:
The Virus INFECTED Dude’s mind through his Dad. Although Dude’s experiences and music had immunized him, his Dad still carried the latent VIRUS from his own youth. Dad told Dude how to live and think.
Dude's Dad sings (with the Virus whispering in his ear) and finally Dude capitulates:
But eventually the Stench Becomes too Much
Dude went with the program. Until he started smelling the same stench everywhere and had enough of The Game.
Dude sings and is joined by his (soon to be) ex-wife Karen:
Superhero Trait #3: A Secret Power
Dude left his wife and moved across the Bay to San Francisco, a block away from a huge Transsexual (Trans) bar called Divas. 24 hours later, Dude found himself there….as Maria. They had six weeks to get ready for this Halloween shtick. This power emerged so naturally…I wonder why?
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Newly born Maria sings about her first night out by herself, walking from her apartment in the San Francisco Tenderloin to the Transsexual Bar Divas. It was terrifying.....and exciting!:
Maria has arrived!
After an epic Halloween weekend, including an invitation to be an assistant for a trans dominatrix at a sex club, Maria was starting to take over. And Dude had thought it would just be a Halloween Shtick! His pathetic Dude life was no match for Maria. He had stepped onto a VERY slippery slope!
Maria sings to the Dude that she's taking over:
Superhero Trait #4: Tights or Spandex
Maria was now spending an awful amount of time at Divas – emerged in the variety of the trans milieu and their mostly “straight” male admirers. Her sexuality, and thus overall confidence grew exponentially by the night. And she brought this power everywhere she went throughout the city. Even Dude benefited at work.
One night as Maria enters Divas, one of the Queens is singing at a Big Boobs Drag Night:
The Trans Town Square
But Maria quickly discovered Divas was so much more than she ever imagined. The queer clubs in San Francisco (being a small city), were like a town square where REAL locals and visitors, straight and queer alike, could meet IN PERSON and discover that wonderful mix of both those things they shared and those things that were different. In the end, we’re all the same, just many precious variations. We could all learn SO much from this.
It was also a great place to run into groups from the various colorful milieus of San Francisco. And it even had a reverend who worked for a church which helped the LGBT community at night when social workers were unavailable.
Divas was owned by Steve who was a nuclear engineer who was walking down the street one night and saw a trans woman Marissa and fell in love with her and married her. Then he bought the bar.
All were welcome in their bar. On the surface Divas may look like a trashy colorful bar (which is enough of a reason to see it), but was a place where the courageous could discover much deep into the human condition. It transcended just LGBT+.
Steve and Marissa sing a Toast to Divas and to all the wonderful colorful misfits and their lovers and admirers:
Queer Fun
Maria just loved the jazz!!!… It wasn’t long before Maria’s expression was giving more variety to her sexual preference. And it was natural for her to start with other trans women.
And pretty soon Maria slipped into the more plentiful options. Well, you really don’t know what it’s like to be a woman until…. Her evolution into a confident, fully functional individual was taking her to new, dangerously exciting places.
Maria sings about her first queer hookup, with another Trans Woman!:
Superhero Trait #5: A Secret Identity
But secret powers come with their problems….a power struggle between who you are on the inside and how people see you on the outside. Kind of like being a Rock Star. And Maria had become one in San Francisco.
And a host of her own show, with some celebrities on it too! Dude’s in the dust!
Maria wasn’t used to this power, she got it so fast. There was a lot to learn and even more to discover! Did she know how to cope? Who was Maria really? Was she the bright white light and Dude a red filter, or was Dude the shining white light and Maria the pink filter?
Dude sings about how hard it can be to be a Rock Star, when few really know you:
Making up for Lost Time
This drove Maria to make up for lost time caused by being a sexual and romantic loser, and get into the kink and sex club scene so readily available in San Francisco. We all need to get our kink out to reach a spiritual state, right? Dude and Maria were seriously diverging. He was a romantic. Which sadly only served to make him a big loser.
Maria even covered Kink in her show she was hosting at the HQ of kink.com, a literal castle in the middle of San Francisco, complete with dungeons for porn sets. It also helped to draw in celebrities to her show. Kink is on a LOT of people’s mind, probably to deal with an f’ed up world. Makes sense. Gotta get to the bottom of this!
Maria sings about this new powerful world. No loser Dude here!
Maria’s life just kept getting better and better!
Maria was a sexy well-known personality and entertainer in San Francisco, getting plenty of action! And Dude was….uh just making money, running errands, and eating and showering.
Maria and Dude were both…
Stop Right There!
But Dude was concerned that they were dangerously out of balance. Maria was addicted to being fabulous. You can’t be fabulous all the time!.... After all, Batman can’t go full time, he needs Bruce Wayne, right?
Dude needed proper romance, but he didn’t know how to connect with people without Maria. She was distorting reality, Dude had to put her in a cage! But how to get women to see him?
Maria sings to Dude and he joins in:
ACT TWO
Superhero Trait #6: Unrequited Love
Dude had to pursue romance with a woman again. He had to try, his heart was yearning for a deep connection with a woman. But he was invisible, what could he do? He wasn’t into fakeness to get attention – was he ready to go back into that? Maria was another side of himself, what about his real identity? He had to try. He had to know.
Dude sings:
The Cesspool
Dude had no choice but to dive into the cesspool of modern dating. Finally after tolerating humiliation after humiliating, online prostitutes and scams, and all that that stench for too long, he settled for Cheryl, who seemed maybe good enough…..? Well, it didn’t appear he was going to do any better. She probably did the same thing.
Well, this didn’t last very long.
Dude and Cheryl sing:
Superhero Trait #7: A Weakness
Dude was trying to work out how to break off the relationship with Cheryl. But Maria, as always made everything so easy. She stopped by Divas after a show, and got that smile from a man across the bar. The excitement of being sexy for who she was and doing what she enjoyed was overwhelming. And natural. She just needed a little nudge to break open that cage, and get back at it! Thank you, whatever your name was.
After breaking up with Cherly, Maria was having way too much fun. At this point, Dude just didn’t care anymore, he was done.
Maria Sings:
Cheryl tries to lure Dude back
Cheryl tries to lure Dude back by arranging to meet him for lunch to give him back some cheap inconsequential things he left at her place. One of the oldest tricks in the book.
Cheryl had no idea what she was up against. Dude wasn’t going to fall into the same trap as his first marriage. The Alt / queer gene came to the rescue. That’s what it’s there for. This is a deep soul nourishing, divine intervention.
What Dude thought was a weakness was actually an essential strength, he just didn’t realize it.
(Although the auto-tuner voice continues to be Maria’s kryptonite!)
Cheryl sings:
The Superhero Dilemma
So many of us have it
Dude was mad at Maria for taking over his life. But who is he really mad at? They all want HER not him! It wasn’t her decision. The first stage of grief is acceptance.
Dude sings, with a few suggestions from Maria:
Collision of dreams, passions, and reality
Maria and Dude each had the chance to really explore and think about their own lives while attending the Burning Man festival in the desert for over a week.
Despite being at the best orgy on the planet!...Maria preferred the piano bar.
Maria and Dude sing about what they each discovered about themselves:
The Two-Spirit of the Superhero
Dude and Maria each concede, that you can’t change the 7 essential traits of a Superhero. Maybe some Superheros only have a few of these traits but Maria and Dude have ALL of them.
But regardless, all Superheros are two-spirited.
Maria and Dude come together and sing:
Finale
We’ll always be fighting our Nemesis(s). The more successful you are, the more they come after you. It’s a sign of success! It just part of the “job”. You wouldn’t want your life to be boring and have no way to learn, would you? Every biological creature has needed to learn to survive and thrive the hard way and pass the knowledge how to do that onto their children. And now our Nemesis’s has jumped to cyberspace….
And think about today, it’s always something. It’s just part of life. And it’s getting a lot more interesting, don’t sit this one out from giving it your best.
As Shakespeare said
"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man (or woman) in his time plays many parts,
His (or her) acts being seven ages."
- As You Like It (Act II, Scene VII)
And YOU get to chose how, starting off with avoiding jerks and fakes, and remembering to rejoice. You can do it….
RIGHT NOW!
CREDITS
© Copyright 2025 Maria Konner and Jackson Sturkey (Music, lyrics, and book)
Individual song copyrights not shown here.
Additional copyright contributions with Maria:
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Steve Rosenblatt – Happiest Man in the World, You’re Osmotically Sucking Braincells from my Head, Right Now.
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Robert Bruskin, David Stein – Pain & Pleasure
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Dave Johnson, Flynn Whitmeyer – Bazooka Tits
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Persephone Schoenfeld – Fuck Yea!
Recorded at Maria’s place
• Maria Konner
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1947 Steinway M which was originally her grandfather Ben Meisner’s piano which he gave to her mother (and Maria grew up with) and her mother gave to Maria.
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Martin acoustic guitar
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Taylor 12 string guitar
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PRS electric guitar – Lead and Rhythm
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Native Instruments Stack with Midi controller – Organ, Synths
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Lead and background vocals
• Jackson Sturkey - Lead and background vocals
• Omar Kabir – Trumpet, Sax, Flute, Trombone
• Electric Bass
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Michael Visceglia
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Saadi Zain
• Drums – Brian Delaney
Other Singer Credits
• Jessie Bangarang – Monoculture Virus
• Kiley Etling - Cheryl (Aren't we Happy People)
• Candice Lynn Matthews – Cheryl (Cheryl's song)
• Klea Blackhurst – Karen, Diva's announcer
• Drag queen singer - Darius Harper
• Steve - Andre Jordan
• Marissa - Nicola Barrett
• Tym Moss – Dude’s Dad
Music recorded, engineered, and produced by Omar Kabir and Maria Konner.
Cover graphics and two-spirit painting by Diego Gomez
Comics and illustrations by Diego Sandoval