Houses In Motion #1 #2 (an experiment in creating a story for Facebook)

This experiment in composing a story in brief Facebook entries is limited each time by the 1,000 character limit of Facebook's Wall, but I thought it might be an interesting discipline for creating something different.

Alexander Chow-Stuart: Monday August 18 2008

Houses In Motion #1

In one world he was eternal.  In one world he was not.

Monroe moved constantly between the two worlds.

But sometimes the pull of one was stronger than the pull of the other.

And sometimes the two worlds seemed to merge.

In the touch world, the non-eternal one he thought of as a body around himself or as a seed pod in which he was no more than a baby pea waiting with the other baby peas for the pod to open, he had a happy life, if happiness can be considered a constant.

Houses In Motion #2

He had a beautiful house. He had a beautiful wife. He had beautiful children. But he had also known dark times and he knew that happiness is to be relished because it is only a tiny part of the prism of life. And that beauty lies in perception, in love, in compassion. Beauty is one of the points at which those two worlds find each other and ignite.

Monroe thought about the Talking Heads song he had not listened to in a very long time but that had worked its way into his thoughts about two weeks ago.

He had bought it and had played it and he heard the line:

"Two different houses surround you, 'round you."

And that was how he felt right now.