Not Dressed

This originally appeared at The Irresponsible Reader along with a spiffy Q&A with the author.
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“Hey there, Jake. This should be fun, right?”...

“I guess,” I say.

“You don't sound too excited,” she says as she takes a hair tie off her wrist and pulls her disheveled hair back into a ponytail.

“Yeah, well. I'm not good at dancing.”

“Obviously! That's why you're here. Same as me. I'm probably just as bad as you. But we'll learn together, okay?”

“Okay.”

“Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra,” she says.

“I...have no idea what that means.”

“It's from Star Trek...Actually, Star Trek: The Next Generation. It means we'll work together to solve a common problem. In this case, the problem is learning how to dance.”

“I gotcha. So, you're like...a Trekkie?”

“Was my sweatshirt not a big enough clue?”

“No, I just—”

“You're not a Star Wars fan, are you? If you are, you'll have to find a different partner.”

then

nine months away

Not Famous

* There are other types that Tropper utilizes constantly, too, if I ever get around to my big re-read of his corpus, I'll end up compiling a chart

“You realize that dancing is basically foreplay, right?”

“So I've heard.” [Jake replies]

“Because dancing is, like, totally foreplay, you know.”

“Why does everyone keep saying that?” [Jake asks]

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Disclaimer: I received a copy of this book from the author in exchange for my honest opinion and this post. I appreciate the book, but it didn't sway what I had to say.