Lol, Ellen I must say you continue to delight me.
I don't normally like short stories, but you just seem to give them the best elements.
I love that, long strange trip indeeds, will you ever evolve it into something more? even better, something happen at rosing this time, but off course we can't lay the blame on magic mustrooms again.
I really love that last three short stories too. Darcy, hum....
Look forward to read the next short stories from you, and hopefully something more serious and equally as good, if not better than 'His Brother Keeper' & 'The Worst that can Happen'.
what else do you have in store? Will you be able to surpass yourself yet again?
The real question, Eli, is whether I can surpass YOU!
And *cough* I can attest to the authenticity of the yawning...
LOL! Julie! I was wondering if I got any of it right. I somehow managed to live through the '60s, '70s and '80s without having smoked, snorted, ingested, injected, popped or inhaled anything, so I had to rely on that one Wikipedia article for background! I don't know -- should they have gotten "the munchies" too?
will you ever evolve it into something more? even better, something happen at rosing this time
Hmmmmm, that would be fun, wouldn't it? I'll keep that in mind These short stories are a hoot. But I'd really love to write another full-length story...if I can come up with something worthy of Mrs. Darcy's!
Ellen, Ive had a trying week, which went badly wrong yesterday with a house fire that destroyed the family kitchen and utility. Today, back at work and wishing I were home to sort out the mess I decided to read a short story that I hoped would make me laugh. Yours was perfect, I enjoyed it very much indeed.
Thanks, I think I might see what else of yours I can read.
LisaJ
I'm so sorry to hear how badly things are going right now, and I'm glad to have helped cheer you up in some small way.
Enjoy the other stories. Other than the first one I wrote, "Report from Longbourn," most of my stories have some element of humor in them. I hope things start to turn your way soon!
Hee hee....I thought I started to read some of your others, the Food of Love and the Lesson being shorts....then I remembered what they were about and decided that work, probably wasnt appropriate...at least not when my monitor is in full view!
I do enjoy your stories though, and will no doubt read them time and time again.
I've just reread this for the third time since first seeing it in 2007 and thought that I really should tell you that I enjoy it and not only enjoy it. I very much like your stories in general, but this one is just so quirky and funny, as well as creative, evocative and surprisingly sweet.
And, having been a San Francisco teenager in the late seventies, it does bring back some interesting memories, some of which are very close to the waterfall.
It's very impressive how clever you are in doing something like this in a way that rings so true both to its original context and characters and to our modern understanding, all the while with such a light (and pleasing ) touch.