How about Webgott + love letters, for Valentine's day :)
greetings!! i stared at this prompt for Forever, and was trying to write it in an Organic and Normal way. and it turns out that the Organic and Normal way for me to write this was modern exes webgott. so although i’m sure it wasn’t exactly what you were thinking, i hope you enjoy <3
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Sun, Feb 4, 9:38AM
Subject: Books
Web -
You forgot your collection at my house. It’s all Dostoevsky, which I knew you did on purpose, idiot. You know I can’t stand that fucker, and you took all of the Vonnegut with you.
Come back and get your books before I burn them all.
- Joe
//
Sun, Feb 4, 2:19PM
Re: Books
Joe -
You have my phone number. Just text me. What if I don’t have time to check my email?
I’ll pick up my books at 6.
- David
//
Sun, Feb 4, 6:01PM
Re: Books
Web -
You always check your email. At least five times a day. Don’t lie to me. And I don’t want to have to compete with your goddamn spam texts, I know you forget to delete them.
P.S. You’re late.
- Joe
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Fri, Feb 9, 3:06AM
Subject: Journal
I can’t find my journal. The one from August to November? Can you see it at your place? I need it.
//
Fri, Feb 9, 3:41AM
Re: Journal
It was in your nightstand. You didn’t think to clear that out?
Go to sleep. It’s ass in the morning.
//
Fri, Feb 9, 4:13AM
Re: Journal
Can I come by and pick it up before Public Speaking? And you’re the one that responded.
//
Fri, Feb 9, 4:39AM
Re: Journal
Public Speaking starts at 10, I’m at work by 6. You know where the key is.
You’re the one that emailed in the first place. I can’t believe you didn’t just text.
//
Fri, Feb 9, 5:01AM
Re: Journal
You’re so old I thought a text would confuse you.
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Mon, Feb 12, 9:03AM
Subject: Journalist
Why did I just get called by a guy about a sports journal? The fuck are you up to?
//
Mon, Feb 12, 12:41PM
Re: Journalist
Don’t worry about it.
//
Mon, Feb 12, 12:52PM
Re: Journalist
Web, he has my contact info. If you get crazy-insane murdered so do I. Did you do something?
//
Mon, Feb 12, 1:13PM
Re: Journalist
Don’t be a doomsday planner. He’s not a murderer. I just went out with him one time. It didn’t end great.
//
CALL FROM: JOE (DON’T)
February 12, 1:27PM
“Yeah?”
“What the hell did you do?”
“What — Jesus, Joe, is this about the guy? It’s fine—”
“Yeah, see, that doesn’t exactly instill me with confidence that you didn’t do something stupid—”
“I already told you, I just went out with him. To dinner.”
“When?”
“I… I don’t have to tell you that.”
“Yes, the fuck you do, because if—”
“Oh, what, you expect me to say I went on a fucking date with him when we were still together? Get over yourself, Joe, it was five days ago—”
“I didn’t say that! I did not say that—”
“And why the hell do you care, anyways? We broke up in December, okay—”
“Jesus, that was only two months ago—”
“It was three, and that’s plenty of time—”
“I’m just saying, you won’t catch me going out with—”
“Because no one can stand your crotchety ass—”
“Oh, but they can stand yours?”
“I — Jesus fuck. I’m hanging up. He only called you because he saw your name and thought it was a different Joe. I’ve gotta get to class. I’ll see you—”
“Wait, wait, Web—”
“I’m not even going out with him again, I just was thinking about the fourteenth. I’ll see you around, okay?”
“David — fuck.”
//
Mon, Feb 12, 6:34PM
Re: Journalist
I shouldn’t have pushed that far. That’s my bad.
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Wed, Feb 14, 5:28PM
Subject: (no subject)
Can you come pick me up?
//
Wed, Feb 14, 5:37PM
Re: (no subject)
Are you okay? Are you hurt?
Where are you?
//
Wed, Feb 14, 5:31PM
Re: (no subject)
Outside of Delancey’s bar.
//
Wed, Feb 14, 5:32PM
Re: (no subject)
Please don’t call me.
//
(DRAFTED EMAIL - UNSENT)
Wed, Feb 14, 5:33PM
Re: (no subject)
I couldn’t stand to hear your voice right now.
//
Wed, Feb 14, 5:42PM
Re: (no subject)
I’m on my way. Stay where you are.
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Sat, Mar 23, 1:18AM
Subject: (no subject)
I miss you, I think.
//
Sat, Mar 23, 1:23AM
Re: (no subject)
Finally giving in to just emailing, huh?
Go to sleep, kid.
//
Sat, Mar 23, 1:29AM
Re: (no subject)
I understand it, now.
It’s less personal.
You have to think more about what you say.
And you’re not asleep, either.
Thank you for picking me up last month.
//
Sat, Mar 23, 1:53AM
Re: (no subject)
I thought you wanted a clean break, after that. That’s what you said at the bar.
//
Sat, Mar 23, 2:02AM
Re: (no subject)
I think that once your ex picks your shitfaced ass up from a bar because he got an email, there’s no such thing as a clean break.
I think I’m just delusional.
//
Sat, Mar 23, 2:10AM
Re: (no subject)
Well, I never said you weren’t.
But it seemed like we might have made it, in this go around. It’s been almost a month since we last talked.
//
Sat, Mar 23, 2:18AM
Re: (no subject)
Well, in the words of one of the best movies of all time: I just can’t quit you.
//
Sat, Mar 23, 2:32AM
Re: (no subject)
Eugh.
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CALL FROM: WEB
April 6, 8:52PM
“You know, he almost broke his nose here.”
“Yeah, I do know, Web, ‘cause everyone knows that. There’s not an American alive that doesn’t know that.”
“Mm. I like this scene.”
“What, the making out? Or did the TV’s go outta sync again?”
“No, the making out. Both do a good job at the… the emotion. The desperation, I guess.”
“Mm.”
“Are you eating something? I hear chewing.”
“What are you, a cop? Can a man not eat a toblerone while watching a movie?”
“No, you can, it’s just — you’re chewing right into the receiver, Joe, it’s gross—”
“Alright, alright, I’ll put it down. See? No more chewing. Enjoy your gay cowboy movie.”
“If I recall correctly, you’re also watching the gay cowboy movie.”
“Only because it was on! And I would’ve turned it off if you didn’t call me.”
“If I didn’t — you called me!”
“Yeah, yeah, believe what you wanna believe.”
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Thur, April 18, 11:27PM
Subject: (no subject)
I think we’re better as friends.
//
Thur, April 18, 12:09PM
Re: (no subject)
What makes you say that?
//
Thur, April 18, 12:31PM
Re: (no subject)
It’s just.
I can’t be the only one that thinks that we get along about a thousand times better now then we did for the entire time we dated. I mean, you would have NEVER watched a Wes Anderson film with me if we were still together.
And we talk way more too, I think. Because of the emails, maybe.
//
Thur, April 18, 12:54PM
Re: (no subject)
Well, first off, the reason we talk way more is because of the emails. Because you don’t delete those spam texts and have no filter and are therefore near impossible to reach.
Second off, we still get along terribly, fuck you.
But I can understand parts of that. We’re still seeing each other just as much as when we were together, I’d say. Now you’re just half an hour away, though. Much shorter distance.
//
Thur, April 18, 1:08PM
Re: (no subject)
Do you think we’d still be together? If we hadn’t been long distance for so long?
And I’m just saying. You never would have agreed with me on any of this if we’d still been doing the whole dog and pony show. You just don’t have the bone in your head that says to be nice to people.
//
Thur, April 18, 1:19PM
Re: (no subject)
I disagree with you on everything just on principle.
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Fri, May 3, 7:12PM
Subject: The New Deal
I want to propose something.
//
Fri, May 3, 7:39PM
Re: The New Deal
You get five sentences.
//
Fri, May 3, 7:57PM
Re: The New Deal
If neither of us is married by forty, we marry each other.
//
Fri, May 3, 9:02PM
Re: The New Deal
That is the most stereotypical bullshit I’ve ever heard in my entire life.
And I’ll be forty in five years, you’ve got a while. How in the hell does that even work?
//
Fri, May 3, 9:23PM
Re: The New Deal
It works in normal marriage ways, idiot.
And that’s why I was thinking about it, anyways. You’re 40 in 5 years, I’m 40 in 12 years, we just split the difference and get married in 7 years. Avoid a lot of hassle.
//
Fri, May 3, 9:44PM
Re: The New Deal
When you say you were thinking about it, it makes you sound like this is a pity marriage thing. Which is weird, by the way. I don’t think that’s how it works, anyways. That’s more of a heterosexual friends who are scared they’ll die alone sort of deal. Real platonic like.
//
Fri, May 3, 10:01PM
Re: The New Deal
This isn’t a pity marriage thing! I just think that it’s something to consider. Unless one of us gets hitched in the next 7 years, it doesn’t seem like a half bad plan.
//
Fri, May 3, 10:19PM
Re: The New Deal
Oh, I have plenty of issues with this plan.
But fine. We’ll get pity-married in 7 years. You’ll be a child bride.
//
Fri, May 3, 10:34PM
Re: The New Deal
I’ll be 33, dickhead.
——————
CALL FROM: JOE
May 19, 9:54AM
“The German dog tags are a nice touch.”
“Mm. ‘s an interesting movie. I like this part, though. It’s incredibly violent.”
“Yeah, I figured. I dragged this fucking DVD across the country and rented a DVD player from the hotel to sync this movie with you, and get such wonderful comments as I like that it’s violent.”
“Well, I do! Nothing much to add there, really. D’you have anything smart to say, jackass?”
“You’re chewing into the receiver again. And not at this particular scene, though. I just like Eli Roth in this movie.”
“Hm. Figures. Want me to start bashing people's heads in with a bat? I could be the Bear Jew.”
“No one could be the Bear Jew. I’m sorry to tell you this. You don’t have the flair. Or the height.”
“Oh, go straight for the jugular, why don’t you—”
“It’s true! You’re chewing, again.”
“How’s everything going?”
“Ugh. Fine. I hate these fucking tours.”
“I know. That’s why I delight in them so much.”
“I hate you.”
“Yeah, yeah. Do you still want me to pick you up from the airport?”
“...yeah. I can’t get anyone else to do it.”
“Don’t worry. I’ll spare you the humiliation of having to be picked up by your ex. I’ll wear a hat and sunglasses. Send me the information.”
“Oh, yack it up, asshole. And I’ll email you.”
“Fine. Remember to make sure it has a fucking subject, I hate it when you do that.”
“Shut up. I’m trying to watch this.”
“Mm. But you’ll still email me?”
“Yeah, yeah. I’ll still email you, Lieb.”
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