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We continue with our fiction writing and reading after coming back from break.  Today we get to chose a story from another packet.  I chose to read August 25,1983.  Which was about a guy who meets himself from twenty years in the future.  The future self seems to have checked into a hotel room the man's mother has history in and had began to kill himself by drinking something ominous from a bottle.  He seems surprised at first then rather annoyed by his future self who tells him one of them is a dream and the younger guy insist the older one is a dream.  By the end I can only guess the younger guy was a dream since when the older one finally died the world became black.

We also looked a the The Falling Girl.  About a nineteen year old girl named Marta who jumps off a skyscraper in this beautifully described city.  As shes falling she sees other girls falling and she jealous of how they're dressed better and some seem to be falling faster than Marta which I found odd because unless Marta has a bigger surface area she and other girls should be falling at the same rate.  I also found it odd that only girls were falling and not men and how near some floors Marta seemed to fall slower.  I took it as Marta peaked in her life at age nineteen and her life went downhill from there.  Because the story says the at the lower floors only old women can be seen falling.  So I believe that skyscraper represents life.

Lastly we looked at The Fifth Story.  Which was about a guy who told us about his hatred for the cockroaches in his home that were coming up from the pipes below.  In the collection of the five story the first was very straight forward. He complained and a woman gave him some advice as to how to deal with his problem and  the intruders died.  The stories were pretty much the same story but got more and more detailed by the third and fourth story. And by the fifth story he made it seem like he was writing an epic novel.