I stared at the screen,

waiting for words.

Nothing.

Ten minutes.

Twenty minutes.

Clickety, clickety, click.

Words.

But they’re the wrong ones.

Highlight, delete.

Stare at the screen.

Nothing.

Forty minutes.

And then the character says,

Talk to me.

I’ll tell you what I feel.

So I listened.

Clickety, clickety, click.

No, he said.

You’re not hearing me.

Highlight, delete.

I listened.

And listened.

And listened.

I heard.

Clickety, clickety, click.

Now, he said.

Tell my story.