Hi Dan,
Yea, I get it, my mistake.  I was confused by the sudden switch.
Mark

On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 6:12 PM, Dan Glover <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello everyone
>
> On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 6:55 PM, 118 <[email protected]> wrote:
>> OK.
>> My only suggestion is to write "I" pouted instead of "he" pouted.
>
> Well, I believe that would be considered proper if the writing were in
> first person. It is not. Rather, the story is being told in third
> person (limited)... this time from Lisa's point of view. I do
> appreciate your input, however.
>
> Thank you for reading,
>
> Dan
>
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> On Jul 17, 2011, at 3:43 PM, Dan Glover <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Lisa, he said. Do you really have to go?
>>>
>>> He was lying in bed still naked, watching her pull herself into her
>>> tight jeans. Her ample bared breasts jiggled as she bounced into her
>>> pants.
>>>
>>> Are you asking me to stay, Billy? she said, sucking in her stomach to
>>> button her jeans.
>>>
>>> Yes.
>>>
>>> Then I'll stay! she said, as if something important finally settled in
>>> her mind to her satisfaction. But I do have to get to work. I start
>>> early today.
>>>
>>> Well, at least you don't have far to go, he said. Do you love me?
>>>
>>> We have what we have, Billy. Can't that be enough?
>>>
>>> I guess it has to be. He pouted. When you put it that way...
>>>
>>> Hand me my tee shirt, she said as she snapped on her bra, adjusting
>>> herself. Billy, I like you. I like you a lot. And maybe (she saw his
>>> mood lighten visibly) yes maybe, I even love you. But give me some
>>> time. I just got out of a really bad relationship.
>>>
>>> God how she hated the thought of going to work. The customers were all
>>> such little boys. Like Billy. Mopy little boys when they didn't get
>>> their way. She needed a real man; someone who'd sweep her off her
>>> feet, rescue her, take her away from all this madness. And what was
>>> she doing... getting involved with a man who just got out of an insane
>>> asylum. She had to be part crazy herself.
>>>
>>> I see things and hear things that aren't really there, Billy had told
>>> her the first night they met. The first night they spent together.
>>> What do you mean, she had asked. And he told her about being committed
>>> for attempting suicide.
>>>
>>> Why did you try and kill yourself, Billy? she asked.
>>>
>>> I, well, I know it was me now but at the time, I thought God told me
>>> to cut my wrists. I heard His voice as clear as I am hearing yours
>>> now. He came to me and spoke to me.
>>>
>>> But how did you know it was God?
>>>
>>> He told me. I saw Him. And there were colors floating all around Him.
>>> I couldn't really tell what kind of colors, just all different colors
>>> all jumbled up. And I knew it was God.
>>>
>>> And did you?
>>>
>>> Did I what? he asked.
>>>
>>> Cut your wrists. Try to kill yourself.
>>>
>>> He held up his arms and showed her the long jagged vertical scars...
>>> scars that said he meant business... scars that meant he shouldn't be
>>> here talking to her right now but instead six feet under the ground
>>> where all dead people belong.
>>>
>>> I should have died, he said. I did die. They brought me back. My wife
>>> came into the room right afterwards and found me on the floor bleeding
>>> to death. She saved my life. I watched. It was like I was hovering
>>> over it all, watching myself, watching her, watching the paramedics
>>> trying to save my life. And there were others there too.
>>>
>>> What do you mean, she asked. Others? Dead people?
>>>
>>> Yes. People I used to know. People who loved me and who I loved. My
>>> mother. My grandparents. They were angry with me. They didn't say
>>> anything but I could tell they were angry. It wasn't my time.
>>>
>>> And now, here she was, fixing to move in with this crazy guy who
>>> talked to God and saw dead people. What are you thinking, Lisa, she
>>> asked herself. But there was something about Billy Austin. He was like
>>> no one she'd ever met. Oh sure, he was a little boy, but there was
>>> more to him than that. When he looked at her, he seemed to be seeing
>>> things that no one else could see. And the way he listened to her was
>>> like he was hearing her for the first time.
>>>
>>> Jesus Christ, she hoped she wasn't falling in love again...
>>>
>>>
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