The Hotel
The Hotel
by Jeffery Tillotson
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This is the hotel as I remember it. In reality it had more color and better resolution, but the photo captures it. The hotel was expecting a great deal of business later in the afternoon. There was some convention starting up and this was to be the press hotel. The owners were so proud that I was going to take a picture in order to capture a memory of the most influential moment in journalism. Twenty minutes after I snap this photo, she will be coming downstairs.
I don’t know where my research went wrong. I dedicated my life to building the machine that would allow me to make my life complete. My therapist told me my depression stemmed from a void in my youth. I knew she was to blame. I knew that fixing her would fix my depression. Twenty minutes after I snap this photo she will be coming down the stairs.
I bought the little bag of licorice for a mere cent. It is a good thing that the penny hasn’t changed in nearly a century. I wonder if anyone will notice a penny with a mint date of 1988.
My idea was brilliant and the dark irony made me grin. The woman who caused me not to trick or treat, with her bogus poisoned candy scare, would meet her end by a stranger’s gift of poisoned candy. I forgot she had a twin.
I remember it all so well. At precisely 10:36, she entered the lobby with her mother. I mentioned what a cute little girl she was and offered her a piece of licorice. She ate it…….. and that was the end.
The hotel owners thought they were going to be famous. Instead, this photo was bought at a yard sale, 80 years later, for $1.25. I am going to miss my appointment. My shrink charges $125 if I am late.
This is my late response to a meme I saw on Wil Wheaton's blog. The original meme can be found here.
When I saw it I immediately had thoughts of time travel. I did about 20 minutes of research of famous people born in Iowa and as soon as I saw the name the rest of the 300 words just sort of fell in place. The young girl eating the licorice is Pauline Esther Friedman, the twin sister to
Esther "Eppie" Pauline Friedman Lederer. Better known as Dear Abby and Ann Landers respectfully. Ann Landers propagated the poison candy scare.
I would really enjoy feedback on this. I talk about trying to write but don't really consider myself much of a writer. I would love to hear what people think.
I wish the LiveJournal.com had trackback support.
* I copied the image to my server to conserve Shane Nickerson's bandwidth.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License.q
by Jeffery Tillotson
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This is the hotel as I remember it. In reality it had more color and better resolution, but the photo captures it. The hotel was expecting a great deal of business later in the afternoon. There was some convention starting up and this was to be the press hotel. The owners were so proud that I was going to take a picture in order to capture a memory of the most influential moment in journalism. Twenty minutes after I snap this photo, she will be coming downstairs.
I don’t know where my research went wrong. I dedicated my life to building the machine that would allow me to make my life complete. My therapist told me my depression stemmed from a void in my youth. I knew she was to blame. I knew that fixing her would fix my depression. Twenty minutes after I snap this photo she will be coming down the stairs.
I bought the little bag of licorice for a mere cent. It is a good thing that the penny hasn’t changed in nearly a century. I wonder if anyone will notice a penny with a mint date of 1988.
My idea was brilliant and the dark irony made me grin. The woman who caused me not to trick or treat, with her bogus poisoned candy scare, would meet her end by a stranger’s gift of poisoned candy. I forgot she had a twin.
I remember it all so well. At precisely 10:36, she entered the lobby with her mother. I mentioned what a cute little girl she was and offered her a piece of licorice. She ate it…….. and that was the end.
The hotel owners thought they were going to be famous. Instead, this photo was bought at a yard sale, 80 years later, for $1.25. I am going to miss my appointment. My shrink charges $125 if I am late.
This is my late response to a meme I saw on Wil Wheaton's blog. The original meme can be found here.
When I saw it I immediately had thoughts of time travel. I did about 20 minutes of research of famous people born in Iowa and as soon as I saw the name the rest of the 300 words just sort of fell in place. The young girl eating the licorice is Pauline Esther Friedman, the twin sister to
Esther "Eppie" Pauline Friedman Lederer. Better known as Dear Abby and Ann Landers respectfully. Ann Landers propagated the poison candy scare.
I would really enjoy feedback on this. I talk about trying to write but don't really consider myself much of a writer. I would love to hear what people think.
I wish the LiveJournal.com had trackback support.
* I copied the image to my server to conserve Shane Nickerson's bandwidth.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License.q