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Sarah's avatar

“Irene’s serene demeanor” made me smile. I also was wondering, based on other output from this guest writer, if this was foreshadowing a misdemeanor......

For real, though, it’s hard to make a “this crazy thing happened to me” story fun - this was really fun! Great storytelling.

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Scuba Cat's avatar

This is more an anecdote than a story, but it was interesting enough that I read the whole thing.

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Yassine Meskhout's avatar

Thank you Scuba Cat, I hope I can better deliver next time

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Kresha Richman Warnock's avatar

No, it was a well written story. Maybe not quite the journalistic genre, but really good.

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Scuba Cat's avatar

No. I thought it was good!

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Alicia's avatar

"I couldn’t help but be drawn in to her director’s vision" is so good.

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Arundel's avatar

This was excellent Yassine, you're a fine writer. Hope to read more from you.

I must confess that I was a little more than halfway through the story before I realized it wasn't Jesse Singal writing about his punk warehouse days and slammin' parties and fighting a dude. "Damn, Jesse, I had no idea!". Oh well, I'll pay more attention to the byline next time.

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Yassine Meskhout's avatar

Pro tip for next time: If it's someone upset about being defamed, it's Jesse. If it's about some cool shit, it's Yassine.

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FionnM's avatar

You're a cheeky bollocks 😅

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Arundel's avatar

Ha! Brilliant...~

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Miguel's avatar

XD

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stavro218's avatar

What about Irene?

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Yassine Meskhout's avatar

👀

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Some Guy's avatar

Yeah, I was waiting for it to end with a “and today we celebrate our twentieth anniversary!”

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A.D.'s avatar

'culminating in an armed police raid on my house. But all that will have to wait for another day"

hmm.....

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Natalie's avatar

I’m guessing that’s Yassine’s Lawyer Origin Story.

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Mike Hind's avatar

I wanted Irene either to be Yassine’s wife today, or someone who turned out to have actually died sometime before the party.

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Some Guy's avatar

At the end they look up and see a poster stapled a power pole: “$10,000 Reward for Information on the Murder of Irene that happened one month ago.”

Yassine suddenly coughs up ashes.

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Mike Hind's avatar

Somewhere in a parallel universe Yassine is cancelled by Irene following a severe #MeToo tweet storm in 2017

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Brilliantly Oblivious's avatar

I have reams of good sensible words of wisdom to offer but I will distill it down to three- Don’t get drunk

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Miguel's avatar

Follow-up story about Irene needed...

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Suzen's avatar

Interesting that the writer seems to find the few non-assholes in this story (Irene, men at the end) the exotic subjects. Or understandable, I suppose.

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Yassine Meskhout's avatar

Dissonance is exotic

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