I just finished a new short story and I’ve decided to call it “In Love With Love.”<\/p>\n
It’s very short (for me), weighing in at about 3,500 words.\u00a0 It’s about a woman named Catherine who’s seeing a therapist because she doesn’t know how to love her son.<\/p>\n
This one has a very weird story behind it.<\/p>\n
I have a strange sleeping arrangement on Thursday nights\/Friday mornings: I go to bed at midnight, and my friend Victor calls me at 3 AM on Friday so I can work on my webcomic and we can talk.\u00a0 (Obviously he’s a night owl, like me.)\u00a0 This past Friday, he woke me up with his phone call as usual, and I had been chatting to him for a couple of hours before I needed to go look at something relevant on the computer.\u00a0 I switched the screen on and there was a Word document open on the screen.<\/p>\n
It was five pages’ worth of a short story that I’d written sometime between going to bed at midnight and getting up at 3.\u00a0 And until I saw it there, I hadn’t realized I’d actually done that; I’d had a vague recollection that I’d just been writing something when the phone rang, but I’d assumed it was a dream.\u00a0 With some surprise, I told Victor that I’d written part of a short story sometime between going to bed and getting up.<\/p>\n
He laughed and said he wanted to see it immediately, with no editing, because he wanted to see what kind of mind-blowingly ridiculous thing I must have written in my sleep.\u00a0 So I sent it to him as an attachment without reading it over, unsure of what exactly I was even sending.\u00a0 Later that morning, after he’d read it and I was already at work, he e-mailed me and acknowledged that not only did the story make sense; it was a good beginning in his opinion.\u00a0 (And, not so surprisingly, it was completely free of spelling errors, and everything in it made sense.)<\/p>\n
I went ahead and finished the story over the last couple days.\u00a0 I don’t know if it’s really one of my best, but it’s pretty good for something I began while half asleep.\u00a0 I guess I’ll go try to find a home for it next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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