Crew Papers
3/30
A grandmother with progressive altheimerz/ her daughter, an excessive codependent/ her daughter, an excessive drug user (heroine maybe?)/ The drug user and codependent fight for recognition from grandma/ "Who can get her to remember whom most"/ Therefore that person was obviously more important to grandma (in their minds). / Talk about the grandma's knowledge of losing her memories and the effect her daughter and granddaughters demeaning "game" has on her.
3/31
A couple trying to conceive a child because they feel something is missing in their marriage. They spend thousands on fertility drugs and doctors. Many arguments blaming each other. They realize defeat and the marriage almost comes to an end. The husband tries to find refuge in a hobby. He chooses kayaking because he loves the water, soothing, helping him feel peaceful and content. Reminds him of the womb. Drags wife along or she meets him at the coast to give him divorce papers. He suggests that she come with him. She loves it. They start kayaking and exploring. Their adventure becomes their child?
4/7
A proud caterpillar's interpretation of slugs dying in beer bottles. One slug in particular nearly escapes death many times. An alcoholic it drinks the poisonous liquid and barely slithers out before it absorbs too much. (Do slugs drown in beer bottles? If not, maybe he's just tempted and always resisted until now) One day it just can't get out. The ambivalent caterpillar continues chewing leaves, preparing to become a pretentious butterfly. Once a new butterfly, wings fully dried in perfect place, he/she takes off only to be catched by a couple of kids. Placed in a glass jar while the kids giggle and laugh. The butterfly dies from lack of oxygen, then the kids realize they didn't put holes.
4/8
A content guy/ a pair of silky and cotton women's panties/ his decision between cotton or silky/ decides on silky because, well, it's silky and smooth/ gets a painful wedgie while playing basketball with the unknowing guys/ he settles for women's cotton panties and the silky ones when he knows he's not going to be very active/ girlfriend nearly catches him but he undrapes her and tells her he needs to prepare. He hides them behind the toilet and returns to his girlfriend and they do their thing. Later he puts the undies back on and sighs with comfort/ he's a happy guy. Maybe the girlfriend walks in men's briefs and they live happily ever after.
4/13
A young girl working in a book store/ she's prey to reclusive guys giving her cheesy lines to get her in the sack/ day after day she endures cheesiness/ Finally one day a guy gives her the line after she says she'd rather be friends, "Baby, I can be your friend but I want to be your lover too. I just want to make love to you baby."/ She tells him to screw off/ He persists/ While persisting with lame remarks he looks up as if in deep thought trying to come up with another line/ As he's looking up he sees the printed words War and Peace hurdling towards his head/ she beats him to unconsciousness.
4/14
Quiet story. Third person maybe. A man named Phillip and his wife Sylvia, a complete horror of a wife. Each day he endures her insulting gestures, degrading remarks and disgusted glances. She never yells, just calmly and quietly makes him feel like shit. A lot of cruel sarcasm and obvious body language. He works and owns a candy store. Wife wants to sell it. It's his only refuge so he freaks out but doesn't stand up to his wife until she shows up with prospective buyers. He eats the candy to soothe his misery. After the buyers leave she comes in smiling confidently. He loses it and grabs her; she scratches his face up. He throws her down and sits on her. All 350lbs. She suffocates and dies, quietly. I suppose this is an odd idea.
4/20
On the binge. A bum on a sitting on a curb contemplating his empty wine bottle. When is he going to get his next fix? Across the street there's a little girl about to buy candy, she sees the bum and runs across the street to give her money to him instead. He buys his cheap wine and gets really drunk. He sits on the curb contemplating his empty wine bottle. The girl passes and sees him and becomes disheartened eventually becoming a lawyer.
4/21
Exercise. For everything you eat in one day close your mouth and describe everything it in great detail, even if it's a cheese sandwich. Then give it personality.
4/27
The hopping duck. At birth it was a happy duck. One day the mama duck decided to teach her babies to swim, so she began to lead them across the road to the pond. When "Boom!" an old lady in a Buick hits the mama. All the babies freak out. The old lady takes the still breathing mama and her babies' home. Eventually the mama heals but is paralyzed all the babies just mimic her by sitting still. This is a hassle for the old woman. One day one of the babies decides to plop up. It wanders around in a zigzag until it comes upon a bunny. It mimics the bunny. Hop. Hop. Hop. There goes the hopping duck. The old lady finds this odd, so she locks up the duck, where it dies from inactivity.
4/28
Antibiotic Resistance and Reincarnation. Germs are taking over the world. At least that's what Ferleine Thomas thinks. Germs everywhere. She thinks people die and come back as germs. Bringing back with them knowledge of how to resist household cleaners. This freaks her out. She has conservations with the rooms of her spotless house, addressing the germs. One day she decides to make the ultimate concoction with many household cleaners to destroy all germs.
5/4
The ghost that haunted Exxon's bathroom. An old creakity house was haunted by this ghost named Myrtle. Born with a woman's name he endured teasing. Poor Myrtle. He built the house and then died in it. Since he pitied himself so much he didn't make it to heaven (wherever). Once day developers destroy the house and put up an Exxon gas station. Myrtle has to transfer quickly to the new building or he'll go to hell (I don't know). In the transfer he screwed up and is stuck in the gas station bathroom. Can't break the force field that surrounds him. Endures an after-life of uniqueness and unpleasantness in the bathroom. He doesn't have much room so he's usually hovering above people. He tries to be polite but it's hard not to look. Myrtle passes the time by saying "Bloody Mary" in the mirror all day only to scare the shit out of himself. He tries figuring out how to get out of his small hell.
5/5
Another love story. One day an old black umbrella decides to stop hating the rain and comes to accept it. Next thing it knows he/she's fallen in love with the clouds. Can't wait until it rains so it can bloom open to its desire, the clouds, to receive sweet raindrops/ The umbrella relished in the rain with each orgasmic downpour. Once day it's owner decided to leave Seattle and move to Phoenix, AZ. She was sick and tired of this constant rain.
5/11
A happy tale. An eighty-year-old man wants to roller-skate. In his youth he always wanted to skate, except all of his friends thought it was "faggish". He'd dream of soaring down sidewalks and sliding through parks. He decides to buy his skates. He has a lot of anxiety build up. His sensation when he slips them on. Practicing in his house so no one sees. Building up courage to go outside. Slowly skating down the sidewalk with a big grin. Feeling like he's soaring. Maybe describe people's reaction to a frail old man skating very slowly along the sidewalk. I picture this story in rural Texas. Big Springs, TX.
5/12
Everyday Swahili, a fluffy white cat, taunts and rubs against Mallard, a lazy Great Dane. The master of the animals is a boring; spindly man who owns an ice cream chain called Tasty Treats. One day Swahili tells Mallard that the rich boring master should die because, well, he's boring. Swahili wants excitement, except doing it himself would interfere with naptime. Mallard refuses. So Swahili taunts Mallard by rubbing, scratching, whispering, hissing, and mocking the poor dog constantly (whenever he wasn't napping) Mallard cracks. When his trusting master takes his dog on a walk he meets disaster. Mallard suddenly jolts in front of a car almost killing his master. Except he gets hit instead. Swahili waits at home for his master to bring a new puppy to his house.
5/18
A tax collector gets fired for always being late to work. He had to look perfect. Job hunting, only place that will hire him is a restaurant. Other servers recognize him as being servers and manager hired him to make his life hell. They torture him by tousling his hair, giving long hugs to rumple his shirt, comment on nonexistent nose hairs that send him running to the bathroom, spilling food on his shiny shoes. He gets fired for always being in the bathroom primping. Becomes a repossesser and has some revenge.
5/19
A pretentious college student. Never leaves the house without ironing his socks. Obsesses over Romeo and Juliet. Always misquotes and ignores peoples corrections. One day someone shoves the play into his hands, telling him to reread it or die (something less severe?) He had promised his Mama, he'd never read Shakespeare, it was her job to read it to him (changing it a little to better suit her taste) She died from stomach cancer and now he just sits and stares at the cover of the play.