The best thing about writing together has been the different worlds and characters we've explored together. Like there's the story of Keith and Marianne living in space via
Spacecity
There's been Denver and Blue driving across the country in a
Hyundai
.
drewbaca_ and I joked how we would be doing this for decades. The story compounds in value over time becaues when you look back at it... it's not whether the writing was good or not that matters. But rather the fun and giggles and meaning had along the way.
PS this drew is different than the other drew drewb
There was a
chalkboard
sign outside the
Vietnamese
restaurant. Andrew liked restaurants with these signs. Hand-drawn messages. Cursive letters sometimes. Drawings sometimes. They affected him different than electronic signs or those god awful TV screens that displayed horrible stock images. He hated those.
The message outside the Viet restaurant read "Have...
Once he got stomach
cancer
he began recounting how many meals he had had without ever being truly grateful. Now his time was limited. But everyone's time was that way wasn't it? Since the day they were born. Nobody lived forever. Although some people wanted to live as long as...
He began visiting the
Vietnamese
restaurant regularly. They had good
pho
,
spring rolls
, and skewered meats. The owner, when he'd given the kid his first meal for free had known what he was doing. Knew the kid would be return. Spend all his discretionary money on the satisfying,...
He went to pay for his discounted meal but was surprised. On the house, the owner said, his eyes closed, head down in a slight bow. He had even had a
Vietnamese
coffee
after his meal. Why were they not making him pay.
newspaper
cigarettes
people watch
cowboy
Westerns
Vietnamese
cancer
The best part about being a
newspaper
delivery man was that Andrew got to
people watch
. You saw all kinds of people on this job. Not that all kinds of people read the newspaper. Only a fringe of the population now touched, let alone read the newspaper. But the...