I won’t. I can’t argue with the three story comment. Although I didn’t find much time to write over the holidays, so I’m not sure it really mattered. Boredom? Perhaps. Maybe it was thinking up that ending while lying in bed, unable to fall asleep. Who knows?
Three scoops of ice cream would qualify as well. Very astute regarding the three people killed. TBH, I really just picked 3 at random, but I like your observation better.
Perhaps a bad analogy, but would anybody ask Stephen King to change the ending of 'The Shining' so the boiler didn't explode? Oh, wait. Kubrick changed it. No, I'm not saying I'm anywhere near a good a writer as King, heaven forbid, if it existed. But I wanted to shock the readers. I think I'll leave it as is.
After we had dinner and Adam went to bed, Jeremy opened the discussion.
"I can see you want to do this, Derek."
"Well, I want to help him, for sure. But we're still getting used to having Adam. And Dennis would have more than the grief issue Adam did."
"Yeah. Anger and the disability. His attitude toward his parents was a little frightening."
"True, but you could hardly blame him. And there's a third extra item."
"What's that?"
"Trauma. How he got the burns. His mot
Thanks. As I mentioned in an earlier comment, I thought I'd added the race fact, but since I use both my laptop and cell phone to edit, using my Dropbox to transfer between platforms, I must have lost a paragraph or two in a missed transfer. My apologies.
While I never knew Carlos Hazday, his tradition of posting something on New Year’s day sounds good. So, my tribute will consist of an idea I had. A lot of people make resolutions and never follow through with them. So why not put together a list of resolutions that no-one in their right minds would make?
Needless to say, I’m not in my right mind. I’m left-brained.
Next up - "Ridiculous Resolutions"