This might be sinning

I decided to eavesdrop on a conversation following a Church service. I feel bad about that.

1-Hey man, its good to see you.
2-How have you been, dude?
1-I've been pretty good.
2-Good, good.
1-Yeah man I'm really glad to see you here tonight.
2-Yeah man actually this is just my second time.
1-Oh, righteous. I've been coming since the beginning of last semester.
2-Caleb brought you?
1-Yeah yeah.
2-That's great.
1-Yeah I know. I feel blessed.
2-Yeah dude the lord is working.
1-Yeah I could really feel the spirit tonight. The focus tonight on the holy spirit was really speaking to me and I felt it was important for a lot of people here.
2-Yeah, Trace was awesome. He always has me listening. I can see the fire in his heart and he is really convicted.
1-Yeah, he actually discipled a friend of mine.
2-Oh yeah? Who?
1-Umm do you know Jake R?
2-Uhh I don't think so.
1-Well he is in the building science program. He probably has almost all his classes with Terry.
2-Oh okay, yeah cool. Have you ever done that? Been discipled? Or disciple someone, I guess.
1-No I haven't. Oh, hey!
3-Hi. How are you?
1-Great. How are you?
3-I'm pretty good. This was awesome tonight.
1-Yeah I thought so too. By the way this is my friend David.
3-Nice to meet you. I'm Sharron.
2-Nice to meet you too.
3-Okay, well I have to get running. My ride is about to leave. Bye.
1-Okay bye. I'll see you tomorrow.
2-Bye. It was nice meeting you...Well she was pretty.
1-Yeah, that's Sharron.
2-Umm was she one of the girls doing the baptizing?
1-Uhh I don't think so.
2-Oh okay.
1-Oh there's Kevin.
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Response to 1-900

I thought that this story was very well executed. there was a great deal of creativity involved in the storytelling by making it completely, start to finish, a telephone conversation. what i really admired about it was the development of the characters. the conversation was so revealing of the nature of John and Sharon, or"Marilyn". the progression of it was a very real sounding conversation, and with each interjection of fact or plot element it seemed like it really could have been coming out in this obscure circumstance of a conversation.

I also found the complexity of the characters to be quite interesting. you can get right away that it is about a guy calling a phone sex line and is needing deeper things, but the development of John's character throughout the piece was interesting to me. He reveals in the conversation how intellectual he is and how his complex thought process can be his undoing (and ultimately turns out to be again). this all leads to a (perhaps expected) turn at the end where the roles are shifted and digs slightly at a point of irony, delving into the convoluted and hypocritical nature of the human nature and sexuality

Caretaker

When she turned the corner into the dimly lit room, her eyes instinctively fell upon the now empty couch cushion. The young girl softly walked up to the area, searching through the mess on the coffee table for the remote, hoping for the flashing ghostliness of the television-lit room to finally fade to black. For it being such a scene of leisure, it seemed ironic how every lingering moment could leave such a sense of overwhelming tension.

Unwilling to let herself fall into the tainted throne that her father had only just relinquished, she bent to lean over the table to search through the old magazines and newspaper that were scattered about. She pushed a pile of papers to the side and accidentally nudged the short glass tumbler that was near the edge, causing the melting ice cubes to clink together. With the TV muted, the crisp chime against the glass was clear in the quiet room and caused the girl to pause

It was behind her to dwell on how unfair it was for her to be the one taking care of her father, she thought. But at the same time, it was beyond her how this unassuming drink could be the cause of it all. With youthful curiosity she reached out for the emptied glass and held it before her eyes filled with wonder. Could this elixir really be the sole reason for the unfair role reversal. As the glass twinkled in front of the television screen, the young girl couldn’t help but wonder how wrong it would be for her to switch things back.

First post

The very first post is a rather disappointing one. It is merely addressing the fact that I was late in reading the first assignment due to the fact that I have, even now, been unable to obtain the required text from a bookstore because they have been sold out.