This piece was adapted for the Six Sentence Challenge with the prompt word ‘book’. For the original, click here.
Mervyn: Edgar, what are you doing?
Edgar: I’m working on my novel, a type of book that contains characters the author has invented.
Mervyn: What will this novel be about?
Edgar: About a man who has conversations with a Martian called Mervyn.
Mervyn: But I’m not invented and we do have conversations.
Edgar: Only if I say so, Mervyn.
Six Crooked Highways 
I like the imaginary Martian objecting to not being there.
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Who said he was imaginary. Frank? 🙂
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Ha! Funny 🙂
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Thanks, Trish
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Edgar has the upper hand for now. 😎
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Always will, Geoff. 🙂
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Hey!
D’ya mean Mervyn ain’t real?
So who makes marzipan, huh?
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The same guy who makes dreadful puns that are music to my ears. 🙂
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Characters not real? The very suggestion! 😉
(now I’ll have to run around calming them all down)
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Sorry to ruin your imagination’s day. 🙂
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*shakes head* while surrounded by a group of astonished characters🤣
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if you were to write nothing, your blog title would bring me back. Six crooked highways is the story of my life.
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Thanks, UP. I think it’s the story of the lives of most interesting people. 😉
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You tell ’em, Edgar!
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🙂
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Poor Mervyn… maybe he though he had character, but it was only Edgar’s character development at play 😀
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Heeheehee! Sometimes, though, the characters are more real in some ways that i want to believe.
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If you believe it, it’s real, Mimi. 🙂
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Haha! That reminds me of, when I was very young, my older bother tried to convince me that everyone one else – including him – was a figment of my imagination. Maybe he was right!
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So he won’t mind then if you include a thinly disguised caricature of him in your next story. 🙂
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Oh, good idea!
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The plot thickens. 🙂
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Now you’re speaking my language! The line between reality and my imagination is barely as wide as floss. 🙂
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If that’s the case, you don’t need to worry about tripping over it. 🙂
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Exactly! 🙂
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Sometimes the friend you need most is the one you can always open with tapping keystrokes, and close down with a quick move and click of a mouse.
Always clever. Always, Doug
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Many thanks, Liz.
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Made me smile again, Doug. Could be I’m partial, but if made to choose between the two, I’m going with the 6 sentence version ‘cuz you know, 6 sentences 😉
If you haven’t scene the movie, think you’d enjoy it.
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Thanks, Denise. Never seen the movie but it’s on my list for this week. If you can, try to catch ‘Troppo’, a new Australian series, on IMDb TV in the US. Stunning acting and scenery (and a lot of crocodiles).
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PS – It’s very confronting so you might need your smelling salts at various stages.
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