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The 2007 SJ Anyone-Can-Do-This Summer Novel--Beta Version

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by 21, Jul 5, 2007.

  1. Double Down

    Double Down Well-Known Member

    Her heart, for the first time in her life, was ... en fuego.
     
  2. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    She couldn't help it; she'd always had an irrational weakness for men named Dan. Her mind started to drift, like a boat sailing across the French Riviera, ambling along, in no rush to get anywhere.
     
  3. slappy4428

    slappy4428 Active Member

    She snapped out of her trance as soon as she heard the screamin -- "AYE SMITH! You'd better quit daydreaming and get your butt up to foreign exchange. Mr. Medivenko wants you now!"
     
  4. Born to Run

    Born to Run Member

    Little did Glenda know that she would be among the first to hear dapper Dan's huge announcement: "I'm in love with Keith Olbermann, and I'm not afraid to let everyone know," he shouted gleefully.
     
  5. Bucknutty

    Bucknutty Member

    The first response surprised no one and quickly echoed down the hall: "Boo-yah!" shouted Stuart Scott for the 27th time that afternoon alone.
     
  6. Tommy_Dreamer

    Tommy_Dreamer Well-Known Member

    Just then her phone rang and as she wistfully listened to her SportsCenter ringtone she looked to see who was calling her.
     
  7. jgmacg

    jgmacg Guest

    That it was actually Dan Janssen, former speed-skater, who spoke these words was of no little comfort to her - just as her confusion of one Dan for another, what her therapist had called her Danamania, was a source of persisitent shame and, truth be told, no little discomfort - and she heaved a sigh freighted with relief as she answered her cell by saying, "Dan?".
     
  8. 21

    21 Well-Known Member

    She had come such a long way since her dangerous childhood in Danville, dangled from the rooftop because she refused to dance.
     
  9. jgmacg

    jgmacg Guest

    "Dangit," she said as the phone went dead, but always happy to apply her post-graduate Am Lit. degree in postmodern strategies of metafiction, she then thought, "What this story needs is some exposition."
     
  10. slappy4428

    slappy4428 Active Member

    She stood up and yelled to no one in particular, "ALRIGHT! THAN I WILL MAKE IT HAPPEN NOW!"
     
  11. Tommy_Dreamer

    Tommy_Dreamer Well-Known Member

    And she strode off with the Laverne and Shirley theme running through her head.
     
  12. jgmacg

    jgmacg Guest

    Thus began her descent into a brief, perhaps no more than single-sentence, madness: bad enough that her grammar suddenly betrayed her intelligence and education; bad enough that she couldn't silence the theme music from a television show she had so studiously avoided in her youth, back there in dangerous Danville; bad enough that she knew now that it was Dan Patrick - or perhaps Danica Patrick - not Dan Jannsen that she truly loved; bad enough that fat Walt had abandoned her here in the office again all alone; bad enough, even, that the story they were paired on - a series of murders yet unsolved in the poorest part of town and distinguished by the grotesque calling card left behind by the killer, a booklet of tickets from a local amusement park - was going badly; the worst of it was she had swooned and fallen and broken a heel, thus rendering her exactly 2 5/8" taller when standing on her left foot.
     
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