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Apr. 3rd, 2010

You don't really like him, but you understand him a little bit, in spite of yourself, and so you maybe give him a nod or say hello or mention when you noticed a free item by the curb or you hand him your leftovers when you come out of the restaurant. And then you notice that he's turning up everywhere, and that's more than a little creepy. Because yes, the poor are everywhere, but usually they're more than one person. It makes you kind of nervous. This isn't right. But you don't really want to talk to him, you don't really want to know, you don't really want to think that there might be something deeper going on here. So you still give him your leftovers and you keep going. You start reading the cardboard sign he puts in front--

Inspiration: "Daily Show" interviewing Ben Stiller about some movie he's in.
Story Potential: High.
Notes: High potential not necessarily on its own, but because this would be a decent premise for a writing challenge to write in second person. Could work. Could be really damn creepy, yet magic realismy etc. Butterflies involved somewhere-camouflage? Mass hiding as a singular? Migration? Must not make preachy, and that's the hard part. Well, that and writing a good 2nd-person story.

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