Today was very
exciting. I was contacted by Connie Flynn, a multi-published author
who also teaching fiction for fifteen years. She wants to feature one
of my stories on her facebook pages! It is not being featured today,
but it will be in the future and I am speaking with her right now
about it. The story is Greetings From a Book
http://langdonflashfictions.blogspot.com/2012/06/greetings-from-book.html
she thought it showed why writers write. I will tell you when it is
being featured on her two pages. (One is her personal page and one is
for her Bootcamp for Novelists) these are the pages:
http://www.facebook.com/bootcampfor.novelists
http://www.facebook.com/ConnieFlynnAuthor
Her First
Meeting
“You'll do
fine.”
“What if he
doesn't like me?”
“He'll like
you.”
“Of course
you'd say that. You're my Dad. You'd say anything like that.”
“No. I'm
serious. You're quite charismatic. Remember how you did during
training?”
“But that's a
hologram. A program. This is the real deal. This one will have real
feelings.”
“And so do
you. And I think it will realize that. Now it will be spooked at
first. But I know you will be able to sway it. And I'm confident that
you will be one of the ones to be promoted to being one of the
leading ambassadors when we finally make ourselves completely known
to them.”
“Yeah. That is my dream.”
“I know it
is. I also know that your ready for this.”
“You really
think I'm ready? You really do? You're not just being the supportive
Dad?”
“Honey. Right
now we're speaking one of their languages for practice just fine. You
piloted the ship here just fine. You've already targeted the one you
want just fine. All you have to do is push that red button to zap him
onto the ship. I know your ready. Besides any memories he gets will
be wiped so you don't need to worry about messing up. But I know you
won't. Now I'm going to go into the back room while you bring him on
board.”
“Alright...bye
Dad! Okay...gotta push the button...okay button pushed!”
“What was
that light!? Where am I!? Oh...my...are...you...a...”
“I come in
peace.”
“Then...I'm...on...a...please
don't hurt me!”
“I'm not
going to hurt you! No one's going to hurt you.”
“But that's
what you things do to us! Don't you eat us or dissect us? Or eat us
or probe us or something?”
“N-no we
don't do that. It's not like in your movies. I just want to talk.
We're all friendly and are working to build friendly relationships
with you for the future. I just want to talk. See I'm not holding any
ray guns or anything. And there are no experiment tools. Besides the
control panel this is just an empty room.”
“I don't care
I want to leave this place.”
“W-well. I'm
supposed to talk to you longer but I don't want to hold you against
you will. Push the red button over there. It'll take you out of the
ship and it will wipe you of your memories of this encounter so you
won't have to worry about anybody thinking your crazy or anything.”
“Your just
letting me leave?”
“Yes. I don't
want to hold you unwillingly.”
“Well if your
someone who would do that then your someone that I would be okay with
talking with. At least for a little bit.”
“Seriously?”
“Yeah. And
now that I think about it you don't look too nasty. I've seen much
grosser ooze coming from creatures in movies before. Though I
probably look odd to you.”
“Yeah a
little.”
“So what do
you want to talk about?”
“I know you
probably want to hear about me. But since your memory has to be wiped
at the end of this it's kind of pointless, sorry but we gotta keep
secret until we all land here later. Though it's gonna happen
probably in the next decade or so. My dream is to be one of the
leading ambassadors on that trip so I want to learn as much about you
as possible.”
“Wow your
dream huh?”
“Yes. It's my
dream to unite our people.”
“Then I guess
I'd better help as much as I can. Though I don't know where to
start.”
“How about
you try your hobbies and work from there?”
“I suppose
you could say I like sports. Though I only play them when their video
game versions.”
“Okay. What
else?”
“I don't play
it a lot but I like a few rounds of chess now and again another hobby
of mine is......”
“........You
did well in there honey. You chatted with that human for hours before
he decided to leave.”
“I know. I
learned so much. I think if we try hard we can really bond with them.
I think we can do it. I think I can do it. I doubted myself before,
but I really think for sure I can become an ambassador.”
“I never
doubted you for a second.”
“I know Dad.”
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Comment: This
one was a really weird story for me to write. I liked doing it
though. A story without any dialog tags or narration. Doing something
different from what I usually do was fun. I wonder what kind of
images popped into your head. I probably won't do more of these in
the future as a lot of the fun of this was jumping out of the
standard zone of what I do.
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