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"LIVE TO IMAGINE!"

Results of U-Write-It Week 255

"Thanks for the proposal," Kaley said to Dennis, "but I can't marry you because of my..."

...artificial hip. I'm sorry that I have kept this from you. When I was a little girl, I was riding my bicycle down State Street in my hometown. I was going so fast that I didn't see the log in the street. I ran over it, lost control of my bike and landed in a ditch. My hip had to be replaced."

"But you don't walk with a limp." Dennis said.

"That's due to the hours of therapy. So you, see, who would want a woman with a busted hip?"

"I would and I do." Dennis took her into his arms and kissed her.

by Patricia Addison, Indianapolis, IN

...promise to my parents."

"But, they're both ---" Dennis blurted, trying to sound sympathetic yet prying for a 'yes.'

"I know they're dead!" Kaley shouted. "I was there ... remember. Or maybe you forgot that day."

That day. The day Dennis Talbert realized love at first sight was not a myth and the day Kaley Wyatt became an orphan.

Dennis reached his arm out for an embrace only to be thwarted by a quick stiff arm.

"J-Just not now," Kaylie repled, her eyes beginning to water. "It's just too much, too soon."

"Then what's this promise about?" Dennis asked.

"Well, my parents wanted me to .. to, be able to have k-- ...." her voice trailed off.

Dennis Talbert was no idiot. Eight years as a homicide detective had honed his people-reading skils on par with psychics.

And to think, the doctors told him he had beaten cancer.

by Josh, Dallas, TX

...plans. I fly out tomorrow to go to the end of the earth, then I have to take a small boat up a river -- I'm going as a missionary."

"I'll go with you. We can get married when we get there."

"There are cannibals, and I don't want you to go there. We can't get married, not there."

"Why not?"

"They always toast the bride and groom."

by Carolyn Ann Aish, Inglewood, NZ

...music. I just couldn't give up rap. And I couldn't imagine YOU listening to it."

"If we love each other with a burning passion, surely we must strive to unite, even at the cost of something dear to us." Dennis intoned.

"Ah...yes...well," Kaley said. "And there's another thing. I like going to dances. And all you like to do there is waltz. I don't even know how to waltz."

"That is a minor inconveniece my love. I shall teach thee to dance like an angel. Together we shall glide across the floor in each other's arms and we shall be speechless with ecstasy."

"Uh. I don't think so. Sorry. Dude, why can't you talk right?"

by Meredith Rigby

...relation to you. And "because your mother told you to propose" is a bad reason, too. And I certainly CAN'T marry you because you're the only man crazy enough to propose to me!"

"B--But! I read a book! It said -- it said -- I followed it almost word for word!"

"You took your proposal from a book?"

Dennis nodded, happy that Kaley wasn't screaming anymore, and pulled out his "proposal manual".

Glancing at it, Kaley sighed. "You read the part with Mr. Collins, didn't you, Dennis?"

by Jane, OR

...past.

"What about your past?"

"I'm not who you think I am, Dennis, and I can't tell you my real identity because it's too dangerous for me."

"Are you in the Whitness protection program?"

"Yes." Kaley looked down for a moment suppressing a tear. "Ten years ago I had to leave everything."

"Why?"

"Because I was married to a man who was connected to the Mob and I turned States Evidence just to be free of him." Kaley went on to explain, "He use to beat me, and the last time I ended up in the hospital knocking on death's door, I decided then and there to find a way out."

"I don't need to know all about your past, Kaley, just your future."

"Cut! We'll start again tomorrow...and people try to be on time! We are already over budget on this film.

The two actors laughed.

by Ranae Cherry, Dover, PA

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