Unfinished Sentences

Extended Summary

Unfinished Sentences 

(c) Sam Madison and Erin Eisenhart

Authors' Note: 

Sometimes, we let doubt get in the way of success. We tell ourselves we're not good enough, that we'll never succeed, that there's no reason for us to try when we know it's bound to fail anyway. We've all been here before.

Most times, however, all we need is a little more confidence--and maybe someone to say "who the fuck cares about them?" when we worry about people rejecting us--for us to continue moving forward. It's okay to fear failure, because no one wants to fail, but it's never okay to let that fear keep us from chasing success--to keep us from ending that unfinished sentence, because truth be told, it deserves to be finished.

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run-on sentence - in which two independent clauses are joined without proper punctuation and conjunctions

Ellie had always been an introvert. She would rather stay home to watch her favorite TV shows, cleaning out a jar of peanut butter and occasionally rereading Pride and Prejudice for the nth time while the rest of the world continued to socialize.    

Wes had always been good at making friends. He could buy some Gatorade at a convenience store and end up befriending the middle-aged cashier behind the counter or ride the bus and end up having fifty inside jokes with his seatmate before he gets to his stop. 

Together, they were like a run-on sentence: Two entirely separate thoughts colliding with each other to form a string of words, woven together to form a chaotic kind of beauty.

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Extended Summary:

In which Wes and Ellie write a story, but ends up writing theirs instead. 

When Wes borrowed Ellie's math notes for an upcoming exam, he wasn't supposed to find the unfinished story she'd written at the back of the notebook.

She wasn't supposed to let anyone see those words. He wasn't supposed to read her thoughts on paper. 

She wasn't supposed to get her notebook back, only to find that her story had been continued. He wasn't supposed to return the notebook with his own words ending the sentence she never finished. 

They weren't supposed to leave pieces of themselves with some ink on cheap notebook paper, to write a story woven with random thoughts and fleeting moments. 

But with one fateful exam and a typical ruled Math notebook, it happens anyway.