Tuesday, October 21, 2014

writer's den week 3

Prompt: write about the person you just met

Zhili is an electrical engineer. He wears all black because his eyes don’t see color, they see the mini resistors that are in your neurons, and the capacitor in your iPhone camera flash. He wants to engineer the next Tesla coil. To make something out of nothing; power out of air, out of the charged particles in the human skin, in the fall leaves, in the blue sky. Zhili’s name means knowledge and power. That’s what electricity is to him—the most melodious intersection of knowledge and power. He chases down the electric as much as he can. Skydiving, making love, cocaine highs. Zhili looks unassuming at best, and fobby at worst. But his blood pulsates with the synchrony of electrons and protons and an abosofuckinglutely thirst for that intersection. One day, Zhili will be a household name. Actually Zhili happens to the name of the street intersection that housed the hospital he was born in. His mother was sadly uncreative, unlike her highly functioning son. Anyways back to the love-making and cocaine.

Zhili is a prolific yet jaded lover. After all, the first lesson in electrical engineering is opposites attract. It seems like Zhili just can’t find the right broad. Or maybe its because he thinks of them as broads. What kind of lover is Zhili anyways? Who even calls women “broads” anymore? Shame on you, Zhili. He has to date, wined and dined 47 different individuals, of 22 different nationalities, 15 different languages (4 of them ethnic dialects of the New Zealand coast), and 2 of the …male persuasion? 

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