Creative Inspiration

me: I start my creative writing class tonight. I'm askeered.

n: Oooh exciting!!! I didn't know you had registered yet. Way to make a step, that's more than I can ever do.

me: It's 2.5 hours long! I'm afraid there will be in-class exercises that we have to share and I'll freeze and have nothing to contribute.

n: In 8th grade it was required for us to take creative writing ... and I was in a class with this girl who I thought was really cool. She wrote a story about a girl in boarding school who was Jewish but no one knew … and her friends would sit around making Jew jokes (at this point in the story we didn't know she was Jewish either). Then one day she got in her car and drove off a cliff, and they found her body with a Star of David necklace on, and everyone felt bad. I thought it was soooo deep and dark and edgy, so then I tried to write like that. You can use that story if you want.

me: HAAAAAAAAAAA! That is so hilarious and so not funny all at the same time.