Saturday, September 26, 2015

Something different

Rock woke up on Saturday morning to discover that his unpublished novel, A Different Closet, was posted on the Internet and that nearly everyone was talking about it. He lay on a narrow stretch of hardwood floor between his bed and the eastern wall of his house and could see paragraphs excerpted from it as they floated under the bed. Rock watched people examine them and took a close look himself. He could tell they were very good, even better than he originally thought.
Already, Rock was being hailed as the next great writer. He overheard a group of his high school classmates talking to Charlie Rose, the CBS and PBS talk-show host, and could tell that Rose was impressed. "It's a wonderful book," he said. "I'd love to have Rock on my show."
Rock knew for the first time that all of his daydreams had been vindicated. He thought he should get up from the floor and put on a pair of pants and a shirt for when people started to come by, and then that he better get to work on his final rewrite. He also knew he needed some grape juice.

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