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Aug 10, 2022Liked by Yassine Meskhout

I wanted Irene to have masterminded the whole fight in order to have alone time with Yassine

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Aug 10, 2022Liked by Yassine Meskhout

“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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Aug 10, 2022Liked by Yassine Meskhout

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

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Aug 11, 2022Liked by Yassine Meskhout

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

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Aug 11, 2022Liked by Yassine Meskhout

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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What about Irene?

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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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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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Follow-up story about Irene needed...

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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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