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 frenchtwist rated 19 months ago - Stories scribbled on napkins
from writers all over the country.
Fascinating reading.
THE HOLDUP
by Andrew Sean Greer
The cold pressure you feel under the table is a gun. A real gun. I am a desperate man. I am a novelist. Don't look at me, just keep on drinking. Now ...
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- Daoloth rated 19 months ago
- Neat idea. Why didn't they rip? Have you ever written on a napkin?
- frenchtwist rated 19 months ago
- Stories scribbled on napkins
from writers all over the country.
Fascinating reading.
THE HOLDUP
by Andrew Sean Greer
The cold pressure you feel under the table is a gun. A real gun. I am a desperate man. I am a novelist. Don't look at me, just keep on drinking. Now what I want you to do--slowly, no sudden moves--is tell me a story. A true story, make it good. Maybe you woke up last week to a black sky and thought the world was ending. Maybe you called your girlfriend and said, I'm sorry about everything, and she said, Why? And you said, The world is ending, and she said, You idiot it's 3 in the morning. But thanks. I'm sorry too. And you know what? Let's get in my car and get out of here, I mean drive off and not look back. What about our friends, you ask. Screw them. I can't, you say, the world's not really ending. Well I am, she says, and that is how you lost her. Maybe a story like that. And when you're done, I want you to walk away. No funny stuff. Just walk away like nothing ever happened. Sit back and think. Order us both another Manhattan.
All right, begin....
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- GSIK rated 20 months ago
- From the page: "250 Inebriated Writers Penned Their Best Stories On a Bar Napkin
How we lay, shag, copulate, have marital relations, park the pink Cadillac, mount the... you get the idea."
- c--b rated 19 months ago
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Jebus, I was expecting to see at most a paragraph per napkin! Instead, most are equal to the length of a hefty short story!
Good reading though, even if it does defeat the purpose of being on a napkin.
- horusrogue rated 19 months ago
- This is worthwhile.
- feebee62 rated 19 months ago
- Writing on napkins,what are people thinking when they go out to eat.
well see it all here.
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