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Uptown

 [dream about / letter to Billy Joel] I took your parking space. Hanging out of your truck window, [drooping] eyes looking down on me, through me - a half smile, that cutting accent. You didn't ask me to leave, you just wanted me to know... .... We went all over. Up the stairs of a skyrise, with people waiting in line for something, staring at us as we bounded past, joking about... ............ You know who this is, don't you? I asked Joe, who looked like Vince Vaughn except for his face... .......... I'm not much of a writer, but I dabble in it. Storytelling for kids and family. Nobody gets it, really. But you do. Because that's really what you are, only you've got the gift. And it doesn't matter that people don't get you, because they think they do, and they feel enough to know, even though they rarely get to the heart of it. ............. She wasn't there, but she could have been. It was that perfect... and that fleeting.
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Story Seeds

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Story Concepts Story of a man who works in a huge sprawling office complex where [thanks to automation / politics / new administration / market forces ?] over weeks and months people are laid off or quit until there are very few people working in the building. Where he used to have friends and chat with people throughout the day, he often goes days, and later weeks without seeing anyone. The story could explore the varied senses as at first he feels empowered, having survived when so few had, and even a sense of domination, then loneliness, guilt, then paranoia. This could be exhibited in the man's reactions to seeing / hearing other people - through corridors / in the distance - at first very friendly, later more reserved, finally hostile / manic. Could attempt a reverse chronology, beginning with a madman and following it back to sanity. ============================== Mutually Assured Madness The concept that only crazy people are sane - that with how insane the world
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