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The Peter Travers of the Marriage
(A 7-Line Story Contest Entrant) |
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by Damion Searls
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"That's what you are!" "Who?" "You know, the movie critic for Rolling Stone? No matter how terrible the movie is—no one else will say anything halfway blurb-like—there's some suck-up quote on the poster from Peter Travers: 'The most fun I've had at the movies in ages!' 'A film of such intelligence, you never want it to end!' That's what you are." "Well someone's got to say it. Besides, you're so smart! And you feel so sexy!" "But you see that it's Peter Travers and you don't believe a word." "Hey, if the studios weren't keeping him in kickbacks they would just get somebody else. It's part of the system. You don't have to believe it." "Don't I?" "Do you?"
Damion Searls writes in English and translates from German, Dutch, Norwegian, and French. He has three books due out in Spring 2009: an abridgment of Thoreau's Journal, a new selection and translation of Rainer Maria Rilke called The Inner Sky: Poems, Notes, Dreams, and a book of his own short stories, What We Were Doing and Where We Were Going. He was a runner-up for Opium5's 500-Word Memoir Contest, and a finalist for Opium7's Shya Scanlon 7-Line Story Contest.
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