The Storyteller and the Listener: A Marriage Made In Heaven

I was enchanted

The only explanation I can offer

As to why we were apart for so long

I thought I couldn't have you

So I buried your memory so deep

At the bottom of the ocean

So I could have some peace

And not be haunted

But in fairy tales

The endings are always happy

Clive Barker once told me

That all great stories are about one

Then two

And then three

Then two

And are about one again

I beg to differ

Someone else said that to write a great story

Give your hero a goal

And then place many obstacles in his way

Which is fine in most cases

Except

When the hero decides to skip to the good parts