Adam Westfall

Writer, Thinker, Tinker, Spy.

[Adam Westfall @westfallwriting]

"It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience." - Albert Einstein

[Adam Westfall @westfallwriting]

Two pennies #rattle in this kid's can.
"Alms mister?"
"I-"
I wanted excuses, like "no money on me," but, you fool, remember? When mom couldn't find work, and we slept in a tent, and the cold wind tried ripping our souls out? And God, the hunger.
"I've got some, yes."

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[Adam Westfall @westfallwriting]

The muse was #oppositional.
"Why do I have to come up with all the ideas?"
"I didn't mean to impose."
I leaned against my desk.
"Listen, I've got other things I can do, you know."
"Like?"
"I could be on an ocean liner, solving a murder."
I started typing.
"Go on..."

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[Adam Westfall @westfallwriting]

Shandra only has a #quirk or two:
1.) She doesn't like the sunlight, totally a night owl.
2.) Garlic and crosses are a no go. No pizza or Sunday church.
3.) She likes to neck and not much else. But we just started dating, so, whatever.
Otherwise she's a killer date.

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[Adam Westfall @westfallwriting]

Paul's #stories were just lies told to pass the time. They were so ridiculous. Until one night when a werewolf appeared and stalked across the front yard and a sea monster took over the backyard pool. It all came true. Now all we could hope for is making him shut up.

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[Adam Westfall @westfallwriting]

I need no #prompt, but thank you for asking. The gun was a gift, I wanted to show it off to my coworkers and they got super nervous. I showed how it works and Jerry, that prankster of a boss, got in the way. Think I could get off with a warning this time, officer?

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[Adam Westfall @westfallwriting]

Outside, the stadium crowd chanted "Nina!"
"My contract never stated I'd fight a lion."
"Ma'am, the fine #print." The clerk said. Nina squinted, reading.
"But it's a phone contract."
"It is very clear."
She was dragged into the arena.
"They never read it." He chortled.

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[Adam Westfall @westfallwriting]

Using the smoke machine on the natives, Jake appears as a pillar of #cloud. He becomes a god, maybe THE God. Nothing is out of reach, monuments, women, murder. One day he falls and cuts his hand. "No God lives forever" they say, as they light torches and tie his wrists.

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[Adam Westfall @westfallwriting]

They said she was a witch, but there are no spells in the apple red of her lips, or her cinnamon skin, or her lemon summer dress, or her moss green hair, not even in her deep blueberry nails. Instead the spell was in Violet's #purple gaze, calling to me.

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#purpleprose

[Adam Westfall @westfallwriting]

Please understand, I killed him for the glint on the gems and because the light rainbowed into tight prisms against the velvet. I'd watch for hours as I rolled the diamonds left or right. It was nothing as base or undignified as #avarice. Don't be ridiculous.

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[Adam Westfall @westfallwriting]

Fay and Roger were in counseling. Every session was a battle.
"I think it's time we talk about the #walrus in the room." She said.
"Isn't it 'Elephant in the room'?" He said.
"No I mean Halford, our walrus. How could I live with that creature taking up so much space?"

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[Adam Westfall @westfallwriting]

#Conversation between the secondary characters makes me wonder if the author would have noticed us as well. Could we have a moment to shine? Our own soliloquy? Let that plot stagnate. We apologize for interrupting your reading pleasure, but now it's our #conversation.

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[Adam Westfall @westfallwriting]

Don't you parent the parent. I know what's best for my boys and that's to leave them alone. It's just a #squabble. John stole Jr's spouse. He had it coming. Don't fool yourself, they're siblings and they'll always love each other, even when Jr. sends John to the grave.

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[Adam Westfall @westfallwriting]

My father was caught selling the Eiffel Tower. So he was a #jailbird, despite his shiny BS. His greatest crime, anyway, was stealing my mother's heart. She brought him candy. She tried to get me to like him. But I knew he was an asshole, even when he gave me some gummis.

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[Adam Westfall @westfallwriting]

To Pandora, deaf since age 10, life was a silent, boring play. She lived inside, the world was too dangerous. One day, miraculously, she heard a song quietly coming from a #soundproof box. She shivered as she opened it, marveling at the music, the beauty, and the pain.

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[Adam Westfall @westfallwriting]

New to this zoo? If you're waiting for the unicorn, it takes #forever. The conditions gotta be correct. Moonlight, rainbow created by a waterfall, UGH! So rare, you'd think it'd want to be seen. Humans, however, want your attention, "help!" They say. Such a weird noise.

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[Adam Westfall @westfallwriting]

Lawrence's interdimensional notebooks included an earth where all the inhabitants were detailed #waxwork, at least he believed so, until the figures started to follow him through the streets.

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[Adam Westfall @westfallwriting]

Alone and oceanside, Joanna considered other paths, always hinging on 'if'. If she stayed in Kansas, if she fucked Marlon, if she got pregnant, if she got married, if she could be happy there. Was it too late? Yes, yes it was. She swam out into the #deep water again.

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[Adam Westfall @westfallwriting]

#Brainwashing salts and surfactants, take these thoughts from me.

The time is now, I want them gone, these stains, these enemies

Rinse them out and down the drains and out into the sea.

Maybe, finally, she'll be gone from heart and memory.

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[Adam Westfall @westfallwriting]

Don't take it #personal. I just don't like you. It could be the way your hair parts, or your hand tremor, or the excuses you make for your failings, or how you left my daughter at the altar. But there's something else, maybe it's because there's always something else.

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[Adam Westfall @westfallwriting]

The Festival of Subtext's main event is The Lover's #joust. Two lovers talk and the first to say "love" loses.
Yuri went first.
"I am lonely without you."
Sarah smiled.
"Without you, I am alone."
The crowd laughed.
"I am not alone."
"No, you're in-"
"Love." Yuri said.

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