(The title makes this sound like it’s going to be a regular feature.  It won’t be.  I just like alliteration.)

I just came across a story that I wrote during a writing seminar a few years ago.  It used the technique where you write your name on the top of the page then pass it.  The next person writes something according to a prompt from the leader (like “a name”), folds it in half, and passes it.  I think we had to write things like a name, a most embarrassing moment, a fun activity, a favorite movie, a quotation, a famous actor etc.  Eventually, each person got their paper back and we had to write a short story using all those elements.  So without further ado I present to you:

Dolores and her ill-fated relationship
by me

Once upon a time, there was a 16-year old girl names Dolores.  Her best friend was a boy named Brad Pitt.  They were “just best friends,” but, as we all know, that never really works and deep down inside, Dolores was madly in love with the incredibly gorgeous Brad.  Her other obsession was with the story of the sinking of the Titanic,.  Somehow she had to figure out how to get Brad to love her and the Titanic saga.  (He thought the Titanic was “old news, baby.”)  So she worked out a plan that their parents would take them on a vacation together to go mountain climbing in Alaska.  They chose Wrangell-St. Elias National Park for their destination.  Dolores dressed very carefully for her date but didn’t realize that she had white powder all over her nose  When she got to the summit with Brad, she started singing, “Because I’ll never hold a picture of the whole horizon in my view.”  Brad though she was high on cocaine and resolved never to talk to her again.  Besides, he’d spotted Cinderella down on the glacier and wanted to talk to her.

The End.

(Someone else actually wrote “mountain climbing in Alaska” on my paper.  I did not make that up!)