You open your eyes in the present tense. You’re looking at white acoustic tiles, gray curtains hanging from a track, an upside down view of a computer monitor with craggy green squiggles and big blue numbers that refresh every second or so. There’s the vague hum of electronics, far-away voices. You’re in a hospital bed. Gray plastic, gray metal objects fastened to the one wall that’s not a curtain; tubes and wires, a chrome stand with dangling latex bags. You raise your left hand to feel a sharp pull against the hairs on your arm where the needle in your vein is sloppily taped. A white plastic cap encases your index finger.
Didn't you say this was a rom-com? My question of whether it could get worse for Neville has been answered. And I learned a new word. I also learned that another way to say achondroplasiaphobia is lollypopguildophobia.
I don't know if it's a rom-com actually. I know I said that in one of the Bix/Boccaccio things but I started thinking later that rom-coms, in the movies at least, are almost all "cute." I don't think I'm living up to the cuteness quotient. My question is, is "rom-com" a label just for movies? Does a rom-com have to follow the Hollywood formula? I can't think of a rom-com novel off the top of my head. I guess I can say RV is rom-com compared to The Nature Preserve. I had to look up lollypop guild. I didn't remember that.
Anything could be a rom- com really. It's kind of a dumb label, but not as dumb as chick flick. I'm loving the book so far. It defies categorization and is never predictable, much like The Nature Preserve.
I think my hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia is kicking in.
Didn't you say this was a rom-com? My question of whether it could get worse for Neville has been answered. And I learned a new word. I also learned that another way to say achondroplasiaphobia is lollypopguildophobia.
I don't know if it's a rom-com actually. I know I said that in one of the Bix/Boccaccio things but I started thinking later that rom-coms, in the movies at least, are almost all "cute." I don't think I'm living up to the cuteness quotient. My question is, is "rom-com" a label just for movies? Does a rom-com have to follow the Hollywood formula? I can't think of a rom-com novel off the top of my head. I guess I can say RV is rom-com compared to The Nature Preserve. I had to look up lollypop guild. I didn't remember that.
Anything could be a rom- com really. It's kind of a dumb label, but not as dumb as chick flick. I'm loving the book so far. It defies categorization and is never predictable, much like The Nature Preserve.
Maybe you need a break. Don't wreck your nerves. I didn't even notice that there was no illustration, the images created in my mind were so vivid.
Thanks! I got rid of my comment with me grousing.
“I think I’m going to find love,” she whispers.
“Help me,” Mr Punto calls out.
“Good things can happen to you too, Neville!”
“I’ve had an erection for over four hours,” Mr Punto cries....
“Why do you say that, Myrna? What possible difference could it make?”
“There’s a power in the world that lurks beyond the obvious. I just know it,” she says...
“I know that. But what makes you think the power’s on your side?”
“I’ve been dreaming about the shark,” she says.
Nice counterpoint
I really appreciate you calling this out. And it's great to have close readers. That's a term I never thought about so much until lately. Thanks!
Hey, so like undergrad English is worth something after all. BTW, Pride and Predjudice would be a literary Rom-Com.
Thanks! I did not know that.