Sunday, February 15, 2009

First page of a Book (possibly)

I
“-It's entirely unprecedented-”
“-Never before in history-”
“-It's an outrage-”
“-With an increase in riots-”
“-an outrage to the founders-”
“-citizens call for recount-”
“-Congress plans to-”
“-Catastrophe of the century-”
“-calls for reform-”
“-Evils of Electoral-”
“-New President-”
“-not a single popular vote-”
“-Our President is-”
“Derrik!”
The TV clicked off, and the remote came to rest on the steel desk. The small, slender woman in front of the desk looked even smaller when put in the huge empty room. Her short black hair came down to her ears, exposing the smooth white skin of her till it came to an end at her stark gray business suit. Her pants, which were also gray, ended upon her black flat-soled shoes. Her size, comparable to that of a 6th grader, seemed even less when compared to the man sitting in the large chair behind the desk.
A huge tree of a man, whose long golden hair, bound in the back, more than made up for the lack of length in the woman across from him. The sharp lines of his faces looked smart and sharp and was all the more accented by cigar that rested coolly in the right side of his monstrous mouth. The cigar, most of the way spent, had only one distinguishing feature, a single gold band which bore the dollar sign. The giant body seemed out of place in the suit that, against all odds, made the man look like he was about to run a marathon and made his body look ready for action.
“So this was your plan, your “secret project” that you've been spending the past month on?”
“Absolutely, do you not feel it was a proper use of my time, Veronica?”
“I guess so, but, did you have to do it to such an extreme?”
“there was no way that I could've won the popular vote, in a popularity contest, the one with the most inconsistent view appeals to the masses the most. If you think it over, this was the only way I could've possibly gotten into this position. Come sit, and tell me everything you know.” As Veronica sat in the chair, her mind wandered to all of her life that led up to this day.
She was a successful owner of the leading Car Company in the entire country, 10 years prior. The Victory Motor Company, owned by Veronica Staidek. Her company produced over 5,000,000 cars a year and was expanding rapidly, when a new motor company began to show to be a real competitor. Within 5 years, The Victory Motor Company had been bought out by this new company, Next Step Motor Company, and it's CEO, Derrik Veola, on the condition that Veronica became a partner. Within that first year, a different type of partnership was forged between Derrik and Veronica, and on the one year anniversary of her partnership with Next Step Motor Company, she became Mrs. Veronica Veola

3 comments:

Carol said...

Two authors come to mind when I read this.

Number one- William Faulkner.
Numero Dos- Any Rand.

Veeeeeeeery much so.

Jay said...

Better as a graphic novel, I feel. Maybe I'm stuck on Watchmen with the spurts of news broadcast meshing together. It happens.

Chuckles said...

Yes, but I can't draw well enough for that, nor do i have the patience, so BOOK!