Monday, October 20, 2008

Twist on the fly.

Diana: tell me a story
Me: does it need to have a twist ending?
Me: or a punchline or something?
Diana: no
Diana: i want heartbreak
Diana: in the story, not IRL
Me: oh, so you want a made up story
Me: not a real-life one?
Diana: yes

I was sure she’d heard Romeo and Juliet before, so I decided to make up something on the spot. I thought for a minute and began typing.

Me: there once was a boy name alex
Me: who loved a girl named alex
Me: they worked at the same grocery store
Me: unfortunately, he could never get up the nerve to talk to her
Me: so one day, he thought he would write her a love note
Me: “dear alex, i love you. i dream about you constantly. i can’t live without you. love, alex”
Me: and so forth
Me: he’d sneak up and leave the notes in her purse when she wasn’t looking
Me: but each day, he’d never get a response
Me: so he began to think she wasn’t getting them
Me: so he’d start leaving them in her jacket pocket, on her car windshield, anywhere he thought she’d find them
Me: but she’d never say a word to him
Me: one day, she didn’t come in to work
Me: he asked around to see if anyone knew what happened to her
Me: and he found out that she had killed herself
Diana: whoa, that’s a bummer
Me: it turned out, she was a schizophrenic
Me: and since the notes were from “alex”, she thought she was writing the notes to herself
Me: no matter how much medication she took, she’d keep finding more notes
Me: she couldn’t stand it anymore
Me: and she took her own life
Diana: ha!
Diana: you tell good stories
Me: yeah, i’m pretty impressed with myself too