Listening

There are times when it is good to listen.  It started with a little enthusiasm, nothing extraordinary, nothing more that, just, oh yes, what a fabulous idea, let's meet up there.  Then there was a nice but pricey drink to warm up the happiness motor.  Then there was the extraordinary day to which I listened attentively and interactively.  Bliss.

Difficult, they praised the story but the only word that came to my mind was difficult.  A few more maybe could include confusing, obtuse, vague.  I guess it was meant to give me a feeling of something but the only feeling I had was I am not clever enough to get whatever it is trying to say.  So I left it.  The first thing I thing a novel has to have is a good story.  Anything more comes after that.

Talking
And when the listening is done it is time to talk.  Time to talk, the words written...

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An so with the darkness knocking at the door patiently waiting for the inevitability of...