>>5198621A mischievous smile creeps across the woman’s pale face as the sea breeze picks up around you sending the tents and party goers into delighted disarray! “You feel it, don’t you? The wind is heavy with possibilities today…”
Craning her ear to the side, you find yourself copying the gesture. For a moment all you pick up is excited chatter. Music from the DJ booth. Waves crashing on the rocks below.
But then you feel it–a faint tingle in the air… like the buildup of static you feel standing next to an electric fence. Just when you start to really <span class="mu-i">taste</span> it, though, the feeling subsides.
<span class="mu-i">Freaky</span>.
“Yes…” Hazel muses as she takes another sip from her glass, “you feel it too, don’t you? Pure, undiluted <span class="mu-s">POTENTIAL.</span>”
She takes a deep, exultant breath as you try and fail to look like you aren’t sitting with her. What the hell is she talking about, anyways? And when are you getting that sip you asked for, huh?!
“You don’t want a sip.” Aunt Hazel explains in a weary tone. “And you don’t want your brother either, Stanley.”
Oh yea, you ask, thirty seconds away from <span class="mu-i">clawing</span> this bitch, and what, pray tell, does she think you want, exactly?
“Hmm…” She hums, tapping her finger on the side of her cheek in thought, “... What <span class="mu-s">do</span> you want, Stanley? Really?”
<span class="mu-i">DAMN, SHE’S GOOD!</span> She just turned that around on you! Now that you think about it, though…
What <span class="mu-i">DO</span> you want?
>FAME! FRIENDS! FAMILY! YOU DON’T WANT TO BE ALONE!>FREEDOM! YOU WANT THE MEANS TO DO WHATEVER THE HELL YOU WANT!>EXCITEMENT! YOU WANT AN ESCAPE FROM YOUR SHITTY, BORING LIFE!>A DRINK, DAMN IT! YOU’VE SAID IT TWICE NOW!>NAH, YOU AREN’T PLAYING THIS ANYMORE. BUH-BYE!<span class="mu-r">MEANINGLESS.</span>
>WRITE-IN! 