What Should You Do Today?

What should you do today?

  • Place Chekov’s gun on the mantelpiece.
  • Walk into a hard-boiled detective’s office.
  • Explain to a youth that they must go on a quest into a terrible land to fulfill a prophecy.
  • Create something new and terrible in your shuttered laboratory and give birth to an evil laugh.
  • Be the man who knows what he should not.
  • Move to a new school and wonder if you will ever make a friend.
  • Sign on to a ship’s crew.
  • Step out of the stagecoach, and tell the boy, “I’m the new sheriff.”
  • Enter the drawing room, gather the suspects around you, and announce you have determined the murderer’s identity.
  • Walk the ancient, hallowed halls and wonder if you will ever be a knight.

Sit yourself down and tell your waiting listeners, “Once upon a time…”

Storyteller from Meddah

–Bill Burns

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