Sunday, March 11, 2007

sneak preview

here are some quotes/lines from a story i am writing about a human person.

"[My wife] has a tendency to hear what she wants to hear. I never proposed to her. We were in a Red Lobster. I came back from the bathroom, and she said 'of course I will marry you.' We had been talking about bagless vacuum cleaners. People at nearby tables were looking at me. I thought I had missed something. I said, 'Great.' We celebrated with a molten chocolate lava cake.

"I think my wife is stealing my DVDs and mailing them to her parents."

"The founding fathers had excellent sperm. Yesterday I realized I had been standing in front of a microwave for minutes, watching the popcorn bag slowly fill with air and lose it's flaccid shape. Then I remembered to shield my crotch from radiation with an oven mitt. Last week I vomited into the kitchen sink. It had been completely unexpected."

"If my wife ever turned into a zombie I would have to decapitate her without hesitation and sentiment. I told her that she could count on me for this, that I would try my hardest. She looked up from her Reader's Digest and said 'you should read this article, it's about cancer.'"

"I ate 4 Krispy Kreme donuts this morning. That's really going to throw off my anorexia."

"I tried dying this afternoon. My wife was at the library and I was doing the belt thing like I always do when she leaves. This time I figured I would come and then just hang there until everything went black and my wife would have to wait a few days before starting her latest John Grisham. But I thought of my poor sperm just lying there on the Berber carpet. I couldn't abandon them. I took them and put them in an empty pickle jar, which I hid on my side of the closet next to all the unwrapped Christmas gifts."

6 comments:

Ian Davisson said...

poignant!


this is the format you should use to write the story.

Ryan Downey said...

i am on spring break.

being a responsible adult on spring break is awkward.

yeah, screw the filler.

write a novel in good quotes only.

like the almanac section that has important quotes for each year.

Tao Lin said...

i want to read this story, you should post it on facebook

Ian Davisson said...

Tao how are you?

Ian Davisson said...

i didn't win five hundred bucks.

and yusef komunyakaa acted like he didn't remember which poem I wrote.

fuck.

even when things are supposed to go bad, can they really be this bad?

triceratops?

Ryan Downey said...

it will be ok.

you have been thoroughly consoled by me.

i am sorry.

you will do better things yet.

or you will die.

one of those things will happen.

i like your odds.