saying yes to life

eight sentences into the future

Written for someone who won an auction for a story on Facebook :)

He slowed down to make way for the trike, as it creaked urgently down the path. It was the neighbour's four-year old, Sophie, always in pink and with the shiniest eyes he had ever seen.  "Hell-o Uncle Toooom," she'd say, wheeling past, and today was nothing different.

He bent down to pat those bouncing ebony curls and said "I'll see you later Sophie? At the big surprise birthday party I'm holding for my wife?" "Yessir," she replied with a toothy smile, chubby little legs pedalling fast.

He couldn't help smiling in return, and touched the little box in his coat pocket. Nestled inside was the golden locket he had promised his wife all those years ago, when they were struggling to start their new life together.

Things are indeed looking up, Tom thought... another grin bubbled up inside him as he remembered their first date.

i love the art, the idea, the philosophy, the love.

Of people finding each other... I read so many of these when I was younger, and now - I guess I live them. And so do you. :)

URL: Sidewalk stencil choose-your-own-adventure

"The mission stencil story is an interactive, choose-your-own-adventure story that takes place on the sidewalks of the Mission district in San Francisco. It is told in a new medium of storytelling that uses spraypainted stencils connected to each other by arrows. The streetscape is used as sort of an illustration to accompany each piece of text.

It's a love story with 2 characters who start in different locations. His story starts at 16th and Valencia, in front of the Crown Hotel / Limon Restaurant with the text "He Leaves his Lonely Apartment." Her story starts at 21st and Guerrero in front of a stunning mansion with the text, "She Leaves her Lonely Apartment." Eventually their paths merge, at the point where they meet, and their paths travel together until drama pulls them apart."