Peter (or Melanie) loved his (or her) job as a [climate researcher / troubled teen vampire / astronaut / professional wrestler]. Every day he/she went to [the lab / the alley behind the blood bank / Mars / the gym] and did his/her best to [document the effects of global warming / not kill people / set up a viable permafrost retrieval system so that future colonists could have drinking water / slam Deathface Dragon with a clawhold suplex]. It was a tough job, but someone had to do it.
The day our story takes place started like any other, but it was a day that would change Peter or Melanie’s life forever. He/she was just [compiling rainfall data / thinking about the transitory nature of human life / calibrating the drilling equipment / doing abdominal crunches] when a stranger walked into the [lab / alley / crater / ring] and, more quickly than he/she had ever believed possible, Peter/Melanie [fell in love / fell in love / fell in love / spin-flipped from the turnbuckle and clotheslined the stranger].
I like the ending I hope Peter/Melanie's relationship lasts, however there's a strong suggestion in the last line that the love turned to non-consensual violence. It's sad.
ReplyDeleteYou forgot to include animal loving vegetarians!
ReplyDelete:-)
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I think it would have been cooler to use braces instead of square brackets.
ReplyDeleteI love that "troubled teen vampire" is a job now.
ReplyDeleteAnd compliments on your knowledge of wrestling vocabulary!
It's like Choose Your Own Adventure... *awe*
ReplyDeletethoroughly satisfying
ReplyDelete"[fell in love / fell in love / fell in love / spin-flipped from the turnbuckle and clotheslined the stranger]."
ReplyDeleteI giggled more for this than perhaps any of your others.
Hee!
ReplyDelete"Every day he/she went to [Mars]" has a strangely surreal feel to it though.
ReplyDeleteAs if Peter/Melanie made the 5-month trip back and forth from Earth every day... hmm.
In the future it only takes an hour to get to Mars!
ReplyDeleteI have a new favourite post!
ReplyDeleteI love this blog so much! It's like a much funnier version of Noah Lukeman's book, The First Five Pages. And this is insanely funny.
ReplyDeleteXO