The Great American Novel

The Great American Novel
by: Dave Woehrle

1: "My dad told me I should write. And I was like, 'Dad, that sounds, like, it sounds like such a chore."

2: "That's funny."

1: "Yeah, it's so much time."

2: "I know. I took Creative Writing in college. I liked it. It was fun."

1: "It IS fun. I like writing. I like it, too, but..."

2: "Yeah."

Pause. Silence. Number 1 picks up a book from the Self-Help section.

1: "So I asked my husband to go to Daddy Boot Camp and he said No."

2: "That's funny." (said in the same meaningless deadpan tone of the first "That's funny")

------Conversation overheard between two blonde pregnant women at a bookstore.