Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Perfect words

The scene:
A college news room. The walls are painted a violent yellow/orange. Two female students sit, CAROL is laying out pages on a laptop, the single working computer in the room, irritated at not being as proficient in Quark as in InDesign. SARAH, her editor, is trying to write a headline for a story on a cancer survivor who invented a line of beauty products for women who are undergoing chemotherapy. The clock struck midnight some time ago.

SARAH: Beauty in Cancer? Ergh, that's not right.
CAROL: Don't say cancer in the main head, save it for the subhead.
SARAH: You're right.

A few minutes go by

CAROL: All my ideas are really lame. Lotion of Hope?
SARAH: Laughs, really really hard
CAROL: I warned you.

Carol finishes her layout work, and is finally happy with it.

CAROL: Okay, I'm turning in. Good luck.
SARAH: Thanks. I'm almost done.

CAROL leaves, then runs back in a minute later.

CAROL: Beautiful Solutions: Products sooth harsh realities of cancer
SARAH: YES!

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