No.41:
You will write a short story for your English Composition class about a pair of young buskers who go on a road trip around the American Midwest.
As the story unfolds, your two main characters will discover some profound truths about themselves. Their lives will be forever changed.
At some point in the narrative, on a moonlit night by the side of a big highway in Ohio, they will meet themselves coming the other way.
They will have a lot to talk about.
They will decide to never go home again.
You will call your short story Anno Domini. You will be very pleased with it. In fact, you will feel very proud of yourself.
Your English Composition teacher will assess your efforts and give you a B minus. He will tell you that your story was derivative.
This is what you will say to him: ‘What do you know?’
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