Story 8 : Diary of the Honey Girl
The prompt for this month's story was "I never knew." Pretty simple and straightforward, and definitely easy to write about. And then, one of the writers on our writer's group came up with an idea that suddenly made it very challenging. She suggested that writers who wanted to push themselves, must: Write in the first person (narrate the story saying, "I...") Use the future tense !! ("I will...") Incorporate a twist at the end... The narrator must be Marilyn Monroe !! There was no compulsion to take up the additional challenge, but I couldn't resist the thought of taking it up. Besides, I anyway had no other ideas, so let me go with this writer's suggestions, I decided. As the decision took root, Google helped research the topic, and after 3 hours of frenetic writing, here's the story I came up with. It's designed like the excerpts from a diary of the star, and of course, heavily fictionalized. If reading