Showing posts with label dancer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dancer. Show all posts

Friday, June 20, 2008

Cyberathlete v. Dancer

Clouds drift unceremoniously across the swollen sky. The Cyberathlete, sitting in the sun just out of the oak's shadow, watches them with unfathomable boredom. He's a young man, very young, whose contest winnings have over the course of several years put him into a higher tax bracket than his father. He wears a t-shirt with the picture of a highly pixilated penguin on the front and the word GUN!!! printed underneath. He's never understood the charm of nature. Given that he's not the type to explore the potential for life outside an air-conditioned enclosure, he probably never will.

At night he falls asleep under the oak. He wakes to rain that only lasts a few minutes. He sits leans against the oak and falls back to sleep.

The next day the Dancer arrives. She seems dressed for the beach.

Wait, says the Cyberathlete, weren't you on Dance Dance Dance Party Dance Off?

The Dancer was. She came in third.

When the Cyberathlete begins discussing his profession - very earnestly - the Dancer grows bored and distracted. When it's clear that she wants nothing to do with him, he suggests they begin preparing for the duel.

They raise their guns, their guns go off.