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CRAPS!

G.A. Scheinoha

��Why can’t I write?, he asks himself over and over. It would be so simple to just do it as the Nike commercial says and yet. . . yet he can’t. What’s causing this block now he asks himself on the screen as the words spill out blue on green background and no answers are forthcoming.
��Who am I fooling he thinks aloud, or in print. A local columnist is all I’ll ever be and he dreads in those words the fate of his mentor, a columnist for the same newspaper who touched so many lives and still, never found the greatness so many writers seek but few attain.
��All day he pounds out cheese on the line at the plant and daydreams himself into a life, any other than this one. He shouldn’t be petty. It pays well, especially now that he’s progressed to a member of the regular work force and not just a temp anymore. It’s put him in an almost new car, the little Ford spins his body if not mind to the job every day. But he seeks to be anywhere but here.
��This is boring and he loses his best, most productive years as a writer in this drab factory life. Churning up all kinds of potential material for those same stories but somehow always a little farther away from reaching the dream.
��So here he stands, dreaming once more visualizing himself into the goal of columnist turned Hollywood wunderkind, scriptwriter cum actor playing a minor role on one of his ancient world shows into a career on the big screen as a modern day villain and back to the tube as hero of an action series he’s written, played out across too many years. Hey, if you’re gonna dream, do it in style, dare to dream big. Go for broke, lay it all on the line for that one roll. . .



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