A few days ago I went to check on my friend, reclusive author Clive Javanski. He was nowhere to be found. In his apartment I found this letter addressed to me. I’m not sure what to make of it. Apparently he believes he’s found a way to go back in time to a particular place when he was in love. And lost. And he’s there now. More likely he’s drunk. But I’ll read on. L, I forgot I’m supposed to look out the door of study hall to watch Sloane walk by. She hit me in the shoulder later in the hall because I didn’t. She looked hurt. Man, I remember how overwhelming it was now, to hear the bell and wait for…
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The Kissing Booth By Liffey CHARACTERS LIFFEY CELIA RAYMOND LAURA COPYRIGHT © By Liffey (thedodgy.com) (At rise we see LIFFEY, who is sitting in a chair in the back of a small theater. He is looking around curiously, as CELIA enters) CELIA Are you here for the audition? LIFFEY I was. Apparently now it’s a wake. CELIA Yes it is. That’s Ginny. She’s been part of this theater for 40 years. Co-founded it. Her wish was to die on stage or least be waked on one. LIFFEY This has to be a first. I’ve been to a few Irish wakes. Drinking and music. Those are fun. When I got my first apartment there was a second small bedroom.…
So I’m in the Bucktown apartment of Chicago recluse author Clive Javanski. He wanted me to take care of a few things, like his fish and a cat that’s somewhere…while he’s in Kalamazoo, Michigan for what I believe is a book reading or appearance of some sort. I have a feeling right now he’s on a stool at Bell’s Brewery, drinking a double cream stout and talking up a couple University of Michigan students. Probably about the smell of books, what bands they’re into, pants, and arm jewelry. Manuscripts and various writings lay about. I read a few. Stuff he either hasn’t tried to publish or is simply unfinished, or rejected pieces. One caught my eye, lying next to the latest Leonard Cohen record.…
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