In celebration of Kate‘s Saturday wedding, let’s cast a romantic eye toward our favorite fantasy/science fiction characters… Imagine a speed dating night… Picture a room filled with some of your favorite characters zipping from table to table, conversing a moment or two, then moving on at the ring of a bell to the next ever-hopeful romantic spirit. If we could eavesdrop on a conversation or two, what might we hear?

Feel free to give us one conversation or several.
I’ve started you off with one possibility below.

fantasy book reviews science fiction book reviews[Seated at the table:  Arwen]

Ding!

Arwen: Hi, I’m Arwen.
Date #1:  I am Groot.
Arwen: So Groot, what do you do for work?
Date #1:  I am Groot.
Arwen: Uh huh. Well, where are you from?
Date #1:  I am Groot.
Arwen: Mmmhmmm. You kind of remind me of a Mallorn I once climbed.
Date #1:  I am Groot.
[Lengthy silence.]

Ding!

Arwen: Hi, I’m Arwen.
Date #2: Thomas.
Arwen: So Thomas, what do you do for work?
Date #2: I’m a writer, not that it matters.
Arwen: Why doesn’t it matter?
Date #2: You’re not real. None of this is real. I’m not even here.
Arwen: You mean as in we’re all merely pale shadows of what once was in the Undying Lands far to the West?
Date #2: As in this is just some nightmare I’ll wake up from to find out I’m still a leper

Ding!

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  • Bill Capossere

    BILL CAPOSSERE, who's been with us since June 2007, lives in Rochester NY, where he is an English adjunct by day and a writer by night. His essays and stories have appeared in Colorado Review, Rosebud, Alaska Quarterly, and other literary journals, along with a few anthologies, and been recognized in the "Notable Essays" section of Best American Essays. His children's work has appeared in several magazines, while his plays have been given stage readings at GEVA Theatre and Bristol Valley Playhouse. When he's not writing, reading, reviewing, or teaching, he can usually be found with his wife and son on the frisbee golf course or the ultimate frisbee field.

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