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gofish
Novel: Sunshine
Genre: Mainstream Fiction
50,022 words so far   Winner!

About gofish

Location: JMU

Home Region:
United States :: Virginia :: Shenandoah Valley

Age:18

Favorite writers: Dave Eggers, Terry Pratchett

Favorite music: currently, Scheherazade as played by the Chicago Symphony. inexplicably.

Joined date: October 26, 2006

Years done NaNoWriMo:
'06

Years won NaNoWriMo:
'06

NaNoWriMo posts: 5

NaNoWriMo buddies: 2

 


Sunshine
an excerpt

We are unusual and tragic and alive and no one knows what to do with us. We do not know what to do with us. We are climbing Mount Everest using two toothpicks and a windbreaker. We are powerful! We control our destinies and we do not need to report to anyone. Other people are outside forces that can temporarily throw us off but we get back on course! We are in mildly elliptical orbits that cannot be changed from (almost) the celestial equator. We are not Pluto. We are Jupiter. We are huge, we are infinitesimally light. We are not dragged down by anything silly and unimportant like the force of gravity. We are better than all of you because we are damaged goods- we have already been broken but we do not need to be fixed. We do not conform to your standards! We are better because we are worse! We do not need to be fixed because once we are broken nothing more can happen to us! We are perfect in our imperfections, we are incorruptible. We have already been hurt!

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