My Life As A Movie

enter: the dissatisfied but valiantly struggling protagnist.


act 1, scene 1: protagonist, post-relationship, enters new apartment – exhausted in spirit as well as body. she surveys the heeps of boxes and random detritus of half of a life.


flash to: the other half of that life, in another, more expensive apartment, where we hear without seeing the laughter of a man and a woman.


return to: our protagonist, who knows without being told that the woman is blond, curvacious and probably cheap. while she tries very hard not to use them herself, our protagonist knows that there are names for women like this, and that none of them are nice.


flash to: cheap, curvacious blond, seated across from unseen man. waiter trips, bowl goes flying, and cheap curvacious blond is the unwilling and very surprised recipient of a lobster bisque facial.


return to: exhausted protagonist, smiling.