The same people who wrote “The Bible for Dummies,” wrote “Atheism for Dummies” too. Go figure.

Waiting For Whatever

A beginners’ experimental fiction primer

Phillip T Stephens
2 min readOct 2, 2022

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Lonely child in desert
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SEE JANE WAIT? Why is Jane waiting? Jane is waiting for someone.

Someone named Godot.

See Dick arrive? Dick asks Jane, “Why are you waiting?”

Jane tells Dick, “Same as you. I’m waiting for Godot.”

Dick asks Jane why she looks beat up. Jane says, “Bully boys beat me bad today.”

Jane asks Dick, “Where is your shoe?”

Dick says to Jane, “I took off my shoe. It’s too small for my feet.”

Jane says to Dick, “The world is too small for my feet.”

Dick says to Jane, “And too small shoes are bullies.”

Jane asks Dick, “Do you read the Bible?”

Dick says to Jane, “Is this about hell?”

Jane says to Dick, “This is about this conversation.”

Dick says to Jane, “This conversation is hell.”

Dick says to Jane, “I took off my shoe. It’s too small for my feet.” Jane says to Dick, “The world is too…

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