one more miracle

Okay, this one requires a bit of explanation. I'm taking a class called Experimental Fiction, and right now we're learning about the Oulipian movement, a French literary movement that's still going on. Basically what they do is devise constraints to write by. They're often very precise and extreme, creating writing that seems strange and a bit unnatural, perhaps nonsensical, but that has merit nonetheless. We were assigned to either choose a constraint or create one of our own, then write a short fictional piece under that constraint. This is what I did:

I opened the short story Brokeback Mountain (I have it in bound form, by itself) and wrote down the "important" words (that is, nouns, adjectives, verbs, not articles and prepositions) from the first line of every page, in order, so each line of the list had the words from one page (for example, "cold/flames/twisting/poking"). Then I decided that every sentence in my story would have at least one word from this list, and at least one word from each line of the list would be used in the story. Um. It makes sense in my head, does it in yours? :P Anyway, it's not essential to know that, but I think it's interesting. So here's the story.

Title: Nowhere and Everywhere
Author: Anne (starsouls1013)
Rating: PG
Length: 460 words
Feedback: As always, dearly cherished.
Summary: Reminiscences of a summer spent with a brother.

( We lost ourselves out there, that summer... )