"So what haven't we done in a story yet, aside
from a wild 24-hour unisex orgy?" Daina asked,
leaning back from her computer screen.
Jerry gave Daina a look. "Ooo,
somebody's undersexed," he laughed.
"Somebody's never-sexed," she replied wryly.
"Orgies are
highly overrated, anyway," Jerry said, putting a comforting hand on her
shoulder. Daina gave him a "don't take me
there" look as he continued. "But we have had the wild sex
part..."
"Naomi and
Alan," they both grinned simultaneously.
"Okay, so, think.
What's next on the story agenda?" Daina asked.
Jerry reached to touch the keyboard and she smacked his hand away. "Don't touch."
"Oww, damn!"
he grimaced, jerking his hand away like a wounded child.
"Come on, think!"
Daina prodded.
"We haven't had
me brutally beat you for doing something stupid," Jerry frowned
meaningfully, rubbing his hand.
"With good
reason," said Daina airily, pretending to miss
the threat. "Anything else, seriously?"
Jerry shrugged and she sighed. "Okay, brainstorm. The ultimate story here
would be the government conspiracy story and that would essentially be the end,
unless I can figure out a way to outwit the
Jerry did a double
take. "That's not final to
you?" he asked.
"Well, you got
hit by a car and survived in a story," Daina
shrugged.
"Yeah, well,
we're talkin' about 70 or 80 plus miles per hour with
a train!" Jerry protested. "You were doing what, maybe 25 in your
car?"
"Okay, okay, no
running over people stories," Daina agreed. She
paused, then added, "We haven't been swallowed by
whales."
"We haven't
climbed the
"We haven't been
turned into cartoons," Daina suggested.
"Well, you were in that video game last
story..."
"Oh,
yeah..."
"But as long as
we're talking Disney, we haven't switched bodies," said Jerry.
"Switched
bodies," said Daina thoughtfully, typing the
words as she spoke. "A definite possibility. Okay, what else?" They both sat quietly for a moment
until Daina said, "We haven't become the prince
and princess..."
"Princess-es," said
Jerry, enunciating the plural.
"Oh, of course," smiled Daina, then finished. "We
haven't become the princess-es of a small country yet."
"Ooo, I like!"
said Jerry, warming up to the idea.
"You like?" Daina grinned.
"I like!"
"Me, too, but we
have to be fair. We've got the body switching thing, too."
"Oh, yeah," Jerry
nodded, with a semi-disgusted frown. "Okay, we flip a coin. Heads, switch
story, tails, princess story."
Daina
pulled out a quarter. "Call it," she said, tossing it into the air.
"Please be tails,
please, please, please..."
Jerry begged.
Daina
caught the coin and flipped it onto the back of her hand. "And iiiiiiit's...heads."
For a moment, the two
sat looking at the coin, then at each other, then back to the coin again.
"Two out of
three," said Jerry.
"''Til we get it," grinned Daina,
flipping again...