Nine Lives in a Sentence
"I won't let go!" yelled Otani Masae as she clung on to Shibata Ayumi, who had tumbled over the edge of the miniscule fence on the edge of the roof of the building in which the two were currently working on an upcoming tour with Goto Maki, who had sprained her wrist last Tuesday but was getting better with the help of a bandage and encouraging words from her co-workers, namely Inaba Atsuko, who had not had proper work in over a year and a half, during which she'd visited her hometown thrice and, even so, had been chastised for not visiting more often, something that made her seethe with hatred and contempt and phone up Maeda Yuki (who was doing her nails at the time) and complain about her family, which was, as it turned out, the total opposite of Yuki's family, since the Maeda family often made the trip to the mainland, a piece of information that made Atsuko hang up in frustration and call up her other buddy, Nakazawa Yuuko, and repeat her complaints, only to find that Yuuko was so drunk from an afternoon out on a blind date that she didn't even know who was calling and subsequently hung up, taking another sip of water in an attempt to sober up for the next day because she had an interview with a gourmet cuisine magazine for reasons she couldn't fathom, although she knew that she needed more publicity and thus decided not to voice her criticism to Tsunku, who had been incredibly busy in the past few months trying to balance the different acts under his Project, schedule in as many lives and interviews as possible, and deal with all the scandals that were affecting him and his girls, namely Fujimoto Miki, who was currently wiling away the hours in her apartment doing nothing but sleeping, eating, and occasionally going out to shop for new shoes (of which she'd acquired eleven new pairs since the end of her Hawaii tour) due to extreme depression because she was being given no new work
and her best friend in the Project, Matsuura Aya, was angry and criticising Miki for not thinking about the group ahead of herself and ruining their chances to do more work together as a super duo, which, actually, Aya was genuinely upset about despite the time it took out of her solo schedule, because she loved talking and dealing with people, and while solo touring was riveting in its own way, she needed some people her own age to talk to and commiserate with, laugh with and cry with, and Miki was the perfect person to do that with because she was good at keeping quiet and listening to Aya, a fact that Tsunku had once praised Miki for in a meeting in a large room that was almost as large as Yuuko's hair in the tenth anniversary concert in January, in which she had participated under the strict, personal condition that Yuki, too, participate and have a chance to sing a solo, which had prompted anger from Atsuko, who also wanted a solo but didn't get one because her ideal time slot had been filled in by Maki, who gave the best performance of her sexy dance ever according to Shiba-chan, who had, not even two minutes ago, leaned forward too far over the railing while enjoying a sunset on the roof of the building she worked in and now clung desperately to Masae, whose hand was sweaty but solid and holding on tightly to her co-worker and friend's equally sweaty hand, while grunting a hearty "heave ho!" and managing to pull Shiba-chan up to safety, which ended with both of them flopping down onto the ground, sitting, shaking with adrenaline and fear, and prompting Masae to quip, "That was such a close call that if you were a cat, your nine lives would be up," which brings you, the readers, and me, the writer, to THE END.
This idea came to me while reading a book called
If on a winter's night a traveller by Italo Calvino. The author tends to write very long, winding sentences, although maybe that's just my perception. Anyway, I decided to try a different approach to story writing. Or is that epic sentence writing? (By the way, I recommend this book even though I'm only halfway through it. For anyone who's interested in a very different approach to novel writing, this book will be a real treat! I've been hooked since page 20.)
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