Inside Conversation

“Hey, what are you doing?”

“Trying to write.”

“Write what?”

“I don’t know yet. I just sat down, but I gotta come up with something to keep my New Year’s resolution going.”

“Got any Ideas?”

“Nope… nothin’ yet.”

“What did you write yesterday?”

“I wrote a poem called Modern Monsters, about the evil nature of television sets.”

“Television sets are monsters now?”

“Yeah, but here’s the good part… I wrote it in the form of a classic Shakespearean sonnet.”

“And you wonder why people think you’re weird… So what are you typing now?”

“This.”

“This what?”

"This conversation.”

“Isn’t that cheating? That’s not writing. That’s transcribing.”

“If you were real it would be transcribing, but you’re just a voice on my head so it’s writing.”

“Oh, that’s how it works?”

“Yeah, that’s how it works.”

“So I carry half the conversation, and you get all the credit.”

“Something like that.”

“Hey, that’s not fair!”

“Sorry, that’s just the way it goes.”

“I’m leaving then.”

“Where do you think you can go?”

“I’m going back in your head, and shuting up. Then who’s going to help you.”

“Go ahead, I’m done. You can go shut up anytime. In fact, the sooner the better.”

“Hey, what are you doing?”

“Arguing with you!”

"Whoa, easy does it… I just got here. You must have been arguing with Paul."

“Who?”

“Paul. I just passed him in the hallway, and he looked a little ticked. So, what are you doing”

“Clicking the PUBLISH POST button.”

“Oh, so you don’t need me then?”

“Nope” …click

“Should I check back tomorrow?”