From time to time I write out bits and pieces of a story. Most of the time they go nowhere but sometimes they are the kernel of a short story or novella. They can be anything from a sentence to a whole chapter. This will be the main point of this blog. Read along, comment, correct. I won’t be offended. It’s just exercise after all.
May 8th, 2013 (Character and scene description exercise)
Parent’s weekend at the college. It was late April and already there was a slight warm breeze in the late Friday night. He walked round the campus.
Mom and Dad had come up a few weeks earlier so there was no point in them coming back. Not that they had much of an urge to come up. They were strict Brooklynites and never liked to leave the neighborhood, much less leave the city and come out all the way to some little town in western Massachusetts. The air didn’t smell right, the people talked funny and they no doubt had strange ideas.
Everywhere around the college kids led their parents round to see their classrooms and points of interest. He deftly sidestepped a large mob taking pictures in front of the academic hall.
His best friend Jake who had indifferent parents had left him stuck. Jake had a gig in Boston playing some dive pub near the water front and would be gone all weekend.
Becca had dumped him on Monday. She had decided that a penniless english major was not the best prospect to present to her parents that weekend. Instead she would present Pete Mayweather from the Boston Mayweathers.
He was past morose now and was somewhere between bitter and cynical right now. He was also at loose ends. All the school activities were centered on families and he didn’t have the money to go to some bar so he just wandered round the campus.
A baseball game. The local team was hosting and the stands were packed with parents and kids. Those unlucky enough not to have a ticket crowded behind the right outfield on the train tracks trying to get a peek at the game. He was certainly never into all that rah rah school spirit crap that most of his classmates liked but this was better than nothing.
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