Who is Charlotte, and why does she haunt these people?
It had been a couple of days since we had checked the PO box, and there were a couple of nice surprises in there this afternoon.
First was a package from EnergiToGo, who emailed the other day and offered to send me and any of my compatriots going to SXSW a cell phone charger gratis for our use during the convention. Very kind of them, and I thank them for it! Unfortunately, they don’t have one compatible with my iPhone, but they sent some for my associates who don’t have that particular handicap.
Second was far more mysterious. A tape recorder, wrapped in the classified section of the San Diego Union Tribune, with a sticky note on it saying “Play Me.”
Who am I to turn down the siren song of the modern-day Alice in Wonderland? Eat me, drink me, play me. Pressing the button reveals a conversation between a man and a woman – the man sounding therapist-like, the woman sounding patient-like – and she’s talking about not writing fiction anymore because her stories were becoming too real. Her last story was about a child named Charlotte, who fell ill and ran away from home to find a cure for herself. The man seemed taken aback by this and anxious to hear how the story ends. The woman said she doesn’t know how it ended because she stopped writing fiction. Because that’s when the nightmare started.
The tape has a notation on it in blue marker – perhaps “VIZ”?
More discussion to be had over on this Unfiction thread. Very intriguing!
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About to listen, but I see the blue marking as 2/1 (looking the opposite way). Some people do their ones like that.
SO fascinating! (but only because it’s not happening to me…)
I originally thought it was 217 or 21A, but got convinced I had it upside down. Now you’ve got me thinking I was right the first time! I’m so easily swayed.
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