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To: dom borax < mailto:printthisplease@hotmail.com >
Sent: Monday August 5th, 1999 00:14 AM
Subject: A new day?
Okay I’ve just finished Dracula…not sure why I chose to finish that book tonight…as now I’m a little worried and think that the Count has taken you…maybe I should have finished Confederacy of Dunces instead…been trying to finish it for six months…but Bram Stoker won out in the end…
It’s funny how I do that…I never read one book at a time…I’m always reading five or six books at a time…it’s not that I don’t like them…I just want some kind of variety or something…it’s like channel surfing with lit’…and there’s always one that emerges anyway…and Dracula was that tonight…have you read it? It’s really good…I was so caught up in the other retellings of the story that I had no idea the book was so good…no one’s really made a decent film out of it…and if folk aren’t reading the book because they think they know the story already…think again, folk…you’re wrong…pick it up today and read it immediately….
Now I’m raving…can’t sleep at the best of times…and with you…out there…after Elsa said that stuff at the party…so publicly…with your friend…I keep hearing her words when she announced it – I can’t get it out of my head;
“At least he doesn’t make me feel like an idiot”
And then you told her… and she hit you… and it all feels like an afternoon American soap opera…
At least Marcus doesn’t know…
…should I tell him…?
From: Stacey Marchenkova
To: dom borax < mailto:printthisplease@hotmail.com >
Sent: Monday August 5th, 1999 03:11 AM
Subject: it’s so quiet
Don’t you love the wee small hours? It’s so quiet like you could be the last person left on earth…I’d love to be the last person left on earth…or at least the last gaggle of folk…I think that’s why I like the lighthouse doctor who episode so much…it’s like they’re the last people left on earth…actually not really…but as a kid…I fantasized about living on a lighthouse…just me… some supplies… a dog... and a healthy dose of mist…
I think I’m a little tired…
From: Stacey Marchenkova
To: dom borax < mailto:printthisplease@hotmail.com >
Sent: Monday August 5th, 1999 06:59 AM
Subject: dawn
The sun is rising…haven’t slept…gone a little mad and eaten all the salty snacks in the house…I tried to sleep but couldn’t…I wanted to be here in case you called…I hope you’re okay…I’m okay…I’m wearing felt-soft terry toweling clothes…toasty warm with dinosaur slippers…sorry they where a gift from my mother…but they do growl when I walk and as much as it shouldn’t - I’m still amused by them…
I also drove around for a few hours last night…I love driving at night…no one around…just me…I have no direction, I turn when I want to turn and stop when I want to stop…I drove past your house…but the lights were off…I think I saw Crisps car…anyway I ended up by the river…I always end up by the river…north where they still have that old wooden crossing-barge-like-thing…not sure what they call them…anyway ended up there…cranked up the stereo and listened to the News….god I love singing along to the news…
“Everybody now… hundreds dead in a Chinese Mud slide… He-di-hee...hi-di-ha...”
Okay that’s just poor taste…the garbage trucks are now in the street….men with fat voices yelling over the loud mechanics…clash of tin and metal and the stink of rotten food and lavender bin liners…okay now I am truly raving…I might put my head down…
From: Stacey Marchenkova
To: dom borax < mailto:printthisplease@hotmail.com >
Sent: Monday August 5th, 1999 7:21AM
Subject: Maybe you’re at work…
Maybe you’ll be at work (kinda just wrote that twice – once in the subject and now in message line itself…fuck, Stacey…why are you rationalizing and telling him everything…whatever…just thought you might be at work…you start at 9:00, hey? Okay, I’m going to try you at work…
I wonder if Oftenbark knows where you are…
From: Stacey Marchenkova
To: oftenbark < mailto:ofentbark@hotmail.com >
Sent: Monday August 5th, 1999 07:37 AM
Subject: Where’s Dom?
Oftenbark, do you know where Dom is? Give him a lick for me if you see him...
(Sorry that sounds wrong)
I’m going to sleep now…good boy…good girl…good us…
From: Stacey Marchenkova
To: dom borax < mailto:printthisplease@hotmail.com >
Sent: Monday August 5th, 1999 7:59AM
Subject: Maybe you’re at work…
Okay, I think I’ve worked it out…you must be plotting revenge…I’d be plotting revenge…after what she said…what they did…I mean, I know we’re not that much better…but we didn’t rub their faces in it…but…
God is that better…? Are we better? Are we the same? I think we’re the same…maybe sneakier…maybe we’re worse…it’s all so complicated…
I don’t know…
Actually I do know…
I know telling everyone at the party that she was seeing your best friend is wrong… I know she was drunk…but still and all…why would you stand there and tell you that was she cheating…and then to hit you…man those dancers can choreograph a great beating…I don’t know if you saw Crisps face (stupid name by and by) but he was ashen, wan and washen…
I mean what a way to clean out a party…
...and just to be clear…this wasn’t your fault…you didn’t make her do it…you didn’t turn her to him…you didn’t make her hit you…I know we are the same…but she didn’t know…not then--
I think I heard you at the front door?
Is that you…I think I hear oftenbark…
Sending this anyway
So Elsa has been fucking Crisps the whole time?
ReplyDeleteHAHA... HAHAHAHAHAHA
Sometimes I feel like this is all so perfectly choreographed that is HAS to be faked, but even if it was I wouldn't care. Just brilliant.
Juan said...
ReplyDeleteLmao.
Just when I was losing hope in Bored Olives, it comes back pretty great.
Stacey is a bit creepy though... so many emails xD
Yeah I have to agree that this seems too convenient, well-paced and spread out between emails to leave us with just the right level of suspense to be real. Either it's fictional or has been edited to space emails out. Nobody writes cliffhangers in regular correspondence surely...
ReplyDelete"Yeah I have to agree that this seems too convenient, well-paced and spread out between emails to leave us with just the right level of suspense to be real. Either it's fictional or has been edited to space emails out. Nobody writes cliffhangers in regular correspondence surely... "
ReplyDeleteerr duh? so what if its fictional. I myself read it because I like the story (didn't the last few weeks) but hes obviously been taking notice of the comments and gotten on with it, which I for one am happy about.
Fucking hell Stacey is boring. Waffle waffle waffle waffle
ReplyDeleteI for one am sure that it's real. Anyway I love this last post hahaha
ReplyDeleteBut this really has got the story going again. I want Dom to give us a full blown account of the night.
ReplyDeleteNobody writes clif--
ReplyDeletefhangers in reg--
ReplyDeleteular correspondence surely...
ReplyDeleteEcho!
ReplyDeleteeko
ReplyDeleteko
ReplyDeleteo
ReplyDeleteLooks like the posting device is working again.
ReplyDeleteAh I love it, it's like the end of an episode to a good drama show on tv.
ReplyDelete"I think I hear Oftenbark"
The season then finishes on that cliffhanger and the watcher promptly goes on a rampage through his house in disgust that he'll have to wait so much longer to see how this progresses.
We're all aware Stephen is a scriptwriter, right?
ReplyDeleteWe're all aware that he's from Brisbane... (maybe not originally, but still)
We're all aware he made a movie name Bored Olives with the Dom/Stacey characters?
Who the hell saves their emails?
This is all one elaborate plot to get this email exchanged turned into a movie (and it should, it's brilliant) but it's not real. He's writing it week-to-week, it's obvious (some weeks he posts a tiny cliffhanger, for writers block, and other weeks he's feeling creative and writes a massive monologue)
Wonder how long this comment stays up?
And another thing, how likely is it that a screenwriter just happens to find 3 months of email exchanges on a pc he was taking apart...
ReplyDelete...gives them names of characters he's already created...
...and releases the emails in serial form over the course of a year?
LOL
Oh come on. Don't be so cynical. Stranger things have happened.
ReplyDeleteWell, to me anyway.
Love Dominic B.
Who cares? I'm addicted, it's a good read, and it's different from just reading any old book. Something to look forward to every week! Keep 'em comin'!
ReplyDeleteIt's not about it being real or fake. It's about two characters/people finding love and messing up their lives over it. We read because one we all love the chase and two we really enjoy other people's mistakes. I like think to think it could've been real. Maybe not these emails, but some emails some where I'm sure have contained similar words.
ReplyDeleteThis is Anon 6:21AM:
ReplyDeleteIt's not being cynical - in fact I LOVE this story, Stephen's writing is amazing - but anyone who thinks it's 'real' is just silly :P
Oftenbark didn't even get that email. Check the address typed :P
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