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Richard was a writer with usual crisis, and he worked in a magazine very popular and without pride and nobility, a magazine for housewife that pass the day to read cuck up and after they told it to friends; he was very bored and disgusted from this life, and the moment better of day was when he ended his job and he could writer his history, very short tales, with different genres, adventure, love, philosophy, cultural, humanistic and other. From time he has usual crisis of creativity; he didn’t wrote something and was very boring; a Saturday, he was always earl raising, in front of his computer he decided to write, and he concentrated on the white sheet, he thought a tale, and begun to write, but after some line he deleted all and begun again; after some tentative an idea, a history of a teen, Alice, and he thought what tale he could tell; he seen the sheet that alone composed of lines, and he read these lines, that said: “Alice was a teen that attended an private exclusive school, and she dreamed to make the writer; she loved the past writers from ancient Greek to contemporary, she loved read and in hers school she was considered very intellectual, she has written from young age of 10 years old, and now she was 18 years old; some time she read again the first tale and she laughed about the poor histories that she has written, very dingy, but she has, then, alone 10 years old, hence it was justifiable. This history Richard read and read again, and after: “I am Alice, and I am suggest to you a tale, now you must follow”. Richard tried to write something but he was blocked and felt an absence of logic and of a history; suddenly the phone sounded and Richard took the receiver, was the editor that wanted know the level of the next tale because he has wanted publish his tales, Richard told to editor, George, that he was working very well and very much; while he spoke to editor on sheet continued the tale, and same Richard read what that Alice was writing, and in fact the editor asked: “What do you are writing now?”, and Richard: “I am writing the history of Alice”, and George: “Very good, who is Alice?”, and Richard seen that on the sheet shown a face of a teen, and she said to Richard: “Alice is a teen, as I have said to you, above told it, and he wanted become a writer…”, and Richard: “Yes, now I remember…”, and George: “What do you are remembering?”, and Richard: “I remember what Alice is saying to me”, and George: “Are you sound?”, and Richard: “Yes, perfectly, because Alice is saying me the idea”, and George: “Who is Alice?”, and Richard: “The teen of tale, she is writing the tale”, and George: “Where is Alice now?”, and Richard: “In computer”, and Richard: “Just moment I will call the police, don’t worry in jail you con write, just a moment”; and George broken the call phone; while Alice continued to write, and Richard read it. Then minutes after and the doorbell sounded and two policemen gone in apartment of Richard they arrested him and Bernard one of police men begun read the tale, he seated and Lionel other policeman called him, but Bernard was seated and continued the read, hence Lionel approached to him and he also begun the read, while Richard was waiting; other policemen gone in apartment and everybody read the tale of Alice, and to the morning, in 2 a.m., a district of police arrived to apartment of Richard, and also they read; finally beyond 150 policemen were guest of jail, and George, the editor, published these tales with name of author, this is Alice.

Alessandro Lusana