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Shanda Koster
Surrealist Narrative


Two people sit in a bar as music plays. They are talking about being happy and crying as they smile at each other over their drinks. The next moment the two people are on the phone. One is planning a surprise birthday party that the other doesn’t want to go to because she just found out that the baby she thought had drowned in a flood was alive and being raised by another woman who had kept the secret that the child was not her own.


Suddenly, a group of people are in a brightly colored room on a conference call as they work out an agreement with a producer to do a TV show. As they discuss the different ideas other people had, they get into arguments and feelings are being hurt. Two women get drunk and pull down their pants for a midget to kiss their naked asses. Next they being to wrestle with each other on the floor as the roommates cheer them on. The one girl is hurt and claims she is drinking because she is in love with a guy who does not return the feelings. Suddenly, it’s time for “brutally honest” with “da brat.” They speak into a microphone about how they really feel about each other. She proclaims her attraction and he proclaims that he see her as nothing but a little immature child….



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