Strangerer Than Fiction

Charlie after figuring out that an author had been shaping the events of his life; convinces himself that he has to meet her. Charlie standing exhausted outside his authors door, hesitantly knocks once. As be starts to turn his back, Harriet opens the door, face-to-face they stand as they both have some sabliminal understanding of each others relivance to each other. Charlie tried to speak but didn’t have the energy to utter anything audible. Harriet stood shocked to see one of her supposed characters standing at her door. Charlie stumbled forward through the doorway and landed his heavy arms on Harriet shoulders. As Harriet caught him they fell backward onto the floor. Charlie, gazing into Harriet’s eyes, couldn’t help but replay the events she had authored in his life that had gone awry over the last several weeks. There was an intimacy that came to both of them as they reflected on their impact on each other’s life. They began to make love on the floor, the door wide open allowed the cat to escape. The next morning they woke up to a new sun. Harriet, curious, goes to her typewriter. As she types she begins to notice things begin to transform around her. She writes Charlie and herself as the King and Queen of Finland…