20 April 2009

55 word story

A New Narrator in Town

I was certain of one thing, and this one thing gave life its meaning. I was no character in someone else's story. I was free.

The giant eraser appeared, hovering over my backyard, and I began to lose faith. When a massive thumb and index finger blocked the sun, I …

He changed his mind.

2 comments:

D said...

Did I create an existential crisis in your life by writing you into my story for your Post-Modern Lit. class?

My bad.

Christoph Roberts said...

One of the first rules of reading a story (and poetry, for that matter) is to never simply assume that an "I" narrator is the author.

In fact, on the self-reflexive level the story, that is my eraser--those are my fingers blocking the sun.