This is another exercise from my fiction workshop class. The assignment was to start a story with dialogue, but it ended up being kind of self-contained.
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Fighting
“What on earth happened to you?”
“Nothing, Mom, I’m fine—”
“Bullshit. Whose blood is that?”
“Not mine.”
“That doesn’t answer my question. Here, let me do that.”
“Ow!”
“You have to stop getting in fights, Alex. We’re going to get evicted.”
“It’s not me, it’s them—ow!”
“Oh, come on, it’s just a cut lip.”
“Shit, Mom.”
“Put this on your cheek. Tell me what happened this time.”
“Nothing.”
“Nothing.”
“Just people being dicks.”
“Really.”
“Really.”
“Your hair’s getting so long.”
“I guess.”
“You’re looking more like your dad every day.”
“Ugh.”
“Where are you going?”
“Homework.”
“You’re actually doing it today?”
“Gotta balance the universe out or something, right?”
“I thought you didn’t believe that.”
“I do, but you know what, I was in the right. They started it. They always do.”
“Then why do you feel like you need to do your homework to balance it out?”
“Shit, I don’t know, because you’re pissed?”
“I’m not pissed, I’m just—”
“Disappointed, I know. I’m not living up to my potential, I know. You sound like those teachers in Grandma’s movies.”
“I’m not disappointed in you. I just don’t want you to end up like your dad.”
“I don’t even know him! God, you make problems out of nothing—”
“How can you say this is nothing? This is the third fight this month, Alex, and I’m worried about you.”
“I’m fine. They were calling you—forget it.”
“What? They were calling me what?”
“They were just being dicks, okay?”
“Okay.”
“I’m going to go do my homework.”
“Okay. I love you.”
“Yeah, you, too.”
Really good piece, very clear who is speaking which isn't easy with no tags, and really felt like a real relationship. I really liked this!
ReplyDeleteThanks! I had fun writing it!
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VERBUM SAT SAPIENTI: As an ex-writer of the sassy, savvy, schizophenia we all go thro in this lifelong demise, I wanna help U.S. git past the ping-pong-politics, the whorizontal more!ass! we're in (Latin: words to wise).
"This finite existence is only a test, son," God Almighty told me in my coma. "Far beyond thy earthly tempest is where you'll find tangible, corpulent eloquence". Lemme tella youse without d'New Joisey accent...
I actually saw Seventh-Heaven when we died: you couldn't GET! any moe curly, party-hardy-endorphins, extravagantly-surplus-lush Upstairs (in [the] end without end -Saint Augustine) when my o-so-beautifull, brilliant, bombastic girly passed-away due to those wry, sardonic satires.
"Those who are wise will shine as brightly as the expanse of the Heavens, and those who have instructed many in uprightousness as bright as stars for all eternity" -Daniel 12:3, NJB
Here's also what the prolific, exquisite GODy sed: 'the more you shall honor Me, the more I shall bless you' -the Infant Jesus of Prague.
Go gitt'm, girl. You're incredible. See you Upstairs. I won't be joining'm in the nasty Abyss where Isis prowls
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