Friday, September 14, 2012

Started Reading

...White Noise by DeLillo.

And I am in love.

In other news, I tried to find some short stories I had worked on in college and abandoned, but found they are missing from my computer.  Hopefully they are backed up somewhere, but I managed to find excerpts that I'd saved and scrapped...and...

Hey, I wasn't half bad.

“The case of the chubby Ferrari”

Howard Louis was the owner of the dandelion-colored Ferrari that inexplicably and unmistakably was growing wider and, frankly larger, each day.  The ordeal had everyone in the neighborhood perplexed; the hot rod, which once coasted with sexy charm through the streets of Seaport was now finding itself lodged in not-so-tight spaces.  The roar of the engine too, having already been ferocious, was now unbearably loud leaving a deafening ring in the ears of passerby as the vehicle clumsily trudged along in its obesity.
          Howard Louis cursed his bad luck.  At dinnertime, he squinted at the French Bordeaux served in his crystal wine glasses with spite.  He regretted buying the Ferrari.  He regretted having voted for the president.  He regretted meeting and marrying her.  He regretted the friends he had had in grammar school.  He regretted not having yelled at his father before he had passed away. He regretted the days of his youth when he had believed in God. 



Makes me kind of sad.

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