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    Tina, Tiny Pieces Chapter 9

    Story written on April 19, 2006 by lastkid.
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    Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters

    A diner in West Hollywood. Saturday morning.

     

    Alice sits in a booth, sipping coffee.  Her hair is limp, her eyes shadowed with dark circles, her skin fairly pale.  She is humming, arranging and rearranging sugar packets on the laminate tabletop. Shane slides into the booth, flopping down with her back against the adjoining one, her feet stretched out in front of her.  She grins at Alice.

     

    Hey!  You look like hell, Al.

     

    Thanks, Shane.  Not all of us got our beauty sleep, you know?

     

    Up late?

     

    Alice rubs her eyes.  She yawns.

     

    Til two. 

     

    That’s not late you big baby.

     

    You try getting hammered at for five hours straight and –

     

    You got hammered?

     

    No, dumdum, I said hammered at.  She talked.  She yelled.  She cried.  I talked.  I yelled. 

     

    Shane grimaces sympathetically.

     

    Ouch.  You yelled?

     

    Alice glares and points her finger at Shane.

     

    She who disappears at the first sign of trouble may not throw stones.

     

    No fair Confucius.  I was trying to help.

     

    Bullshit.  You were trying to run away.  Not trying. You did run away.

     

    Well, I got Jenny and Max out of there, so I did something right.  Are you humming?

     

    Shane cocks her head at Alice, who frowns, she shoves the packets away, they slide across the table until they hit the dented creamer.

     

    And how is Cro Magnon man?

     

    I dunno. Ok, I guess.  He calmed down last night, a little, after like two hours of me telling him to. I gotta talk to him, or to Jenny.  What the hell are those Alice?

     

    Lying in front of Alice are two identical plastic figurines.  Older women who wear a helmet of white plastic hair and black heavy-rimmed plastic glasses.  They wear molded plastic yellow cardigan sweaters and molded gray skirts.  They lean on molded plastic walkers, in front of which hangs a molded plastic handbag.  Their tiny plastic legs are split, free until they come together in a small bead of plastic at the insides of their heels.

     

    Racing Grannies.

     

    What the fuck are they? Will you stop humming for fuck’s sake? What are you, nervous?

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    1. YAY!!!!! I`m first!!!!!!!Tomorrow is going to be a good day. Now I`ll read the chapter. Glad to see is a long chapter!!!!!!!I`m just happy that you posted *clapping hands*

    2. hmmmmm, tks, I think, pls just don’t make us wait too long. This is a good book that I don’t want to put down!!! Way too much going on in my head to make sense enough to comment…but tks

    3. Ouch, my head hurts. Did I just read a portion of the script from the movie “A Beautiful Mind”? It felt like it, because this was complex, a bit hard to follow, and yet surprisingly revealing. Or perhaps, that’s what my brain wants me to think, lol.

    5. Your writing continues to amaze me! Terrific stuff going on here. Can’t help pulling for Tina and Bette, they are the main reason I watch the show. Not sure why IC chose this season to give Tina a personality transplant. Perhaps her brief union with Helena resulted in some bizarre morphing of the two lost souls.

    6. To answer your question of why Tina should live alone, I believe she is not happy with anybody especially herself. If she were alone with just her and the baby then maybe she would begin to understand why she does what she does. She seems even less happier with Henry than she did with Bette. I get the feeling that the life that she thought that she wanted is not cracked up to be what she envisioned it to be. She is missing her friends and maybe even deep inside she is missing Bette. Why would she be so angry about Bette cheating if she did not love her? I do not think that I am making sense, sorry. I love how you have Shane and Alice conversing with each other. Playing with the figurines while discussing the night before. Great post, thanks.

    7. Well, kid, that was rich and meaty. It had the ring of truth. Loved Maxine and Evelyn. And yes, Mage, plural Magi, related to Magus and from the same root as make and magic. I think we could all use a little. Especially Tina, who I think is confused about far more than her sexual orientation.

    8. You wanted more rhymes, you said? Ok, then, here’s another limerick for you. A writer from Illinois/ while having her afternoon tea/ she sketched down fanfiction/ for those with addiction/ to the characters named B and T. Keep on going and keep us reading!

    9. Sometimes life is crapy and our dreams trick us into thinking that we are happy till it all comes crashing down around us. I think that tina needs to get her head out of the clouds and have look around before it’s to late.

    10. Sorry, I don’t get the Elton John lyrics either, but then, I’ve never been a fan.I do get Alice’s insight into Tina, which is fascinating. The whole conversation between Alice and Shane is wonderfully written. Thing One and Thing Two – Priceless!

    11. Another virtuoso chapter, kid!……Your skill at weaving together color, texture and multiple threads is as masterful as artisan weaving a Persian rug. The way that you bring so many fragmentedd pieces together with such vivid imagery is extraordinary……I’ll try to be brief (as much as I am capable of, that is)…….I found Shane’s comment to Alice and her response to Shane interesting, not everyone’s reality is the same……I loved that Alice has Dana’s racing grannies, they are so symbolic to her – a long term relationship, best friends and something tangible of Dana’s…….The weather makes another appearance, punctuating all of the emotions that are swirling around. Not just betweenn Alice and Shane, but between Bette and Tina. Dry heat, nothing left, irritable or all cried out. Humid, uncomfortable, unbalanced. Rain, melancholy and filled with tears unshed……..The description of the grannies was incisive as always, people see what they want to see and in turn we let them see what WE want them to see under the guise of reality…….Curious that Shane assumed that if something was wrong between Henry and Tina, that is must be because of Henry. We see what we want to see……..I was fascinated with how you used both Evelyn and Maxine, as well as the song lyrics, as parallels to Bette and Tina, Alice and Dana and Henry and Tina and life’s constantly changing nature…….Shane asking if T&H were working it out – and Shane comments about forcing the grannies together, forcing together something that might not be working……Tina talking about Bette a lot when she was with Alice and then Evelyn falls to her knees – symbolic for a cry for help or forgiveness? Evelyn falling off of the table, losing her way – could be any of themm at this point……..The sugar packets, falling in the water, struggling to go up the menu – all of it indicative of the uphill battle that is going on in Tina’s life, Bette’s life and Henry’s life. Beautiful!!!……The song lyrics, not knowing if it’s dark or light outside, Tina has lost her way, Bette feels like she is standing in the shadow of her former life. Sons of bankers/Sons of lawyers – those that are rich as well as bankrupt in life, perception is everything…….Shane stealing Evelyn was excellent, they all want a part of what was once Bette and Tina……Brilliantly executed, Kid. Your talent is unsurpassed and I can only hope with all that I have within me that IC has even a tenth of your insight next season.

    12. this was one crazy chapter, can you be my therapist btw? or maybe alice can…i like her analysis of tina….and yes, i hope you’re listening ;)

    15. You totally nailed that chapter Lastkid.. oh.. and just so i don’t feel left out… I fucking hate jelly beans .. Like jelly babies tho.. well black and red ones…lmao

    17. Loved the writing of Shane’s quick-cut analogy of everyone…”Yeah, and you kept a lifesize cutout and popped a lot of pills. Tina cries and yells at her best friend while she hates her ex-partner and her husband and maybe her f*cking whole life. Helena buys people and has nothing to show for it. Max goes apesh*t over nothing. Jenny dreams and thinks too much. And me – f*ck it, we all know what I do. Point is, we’re all in it, Alice, somehow or another, every one of us.” Nice!

    18. Masterful writing. Simple sentences but oh so complex. Can’t wait for Bette’s POV. Shane’s right. Everyone needs a friend like Alice. But who does Al have when her life is disintegrating?

    19. I’m not quite sure I understand the song lyrics thrown into the chapter. Okay I don’t understand it at all except “Spanish Harlem.” lol Oh before I comment on the chapter any further, a mage is a spellcaster. Think of a young wizard or something. :) Back to the chapter…I’m trying to figure out if Shane’s comment on “we’re all in it” meant that the whole group was somehow involved in the demise of B&T, or if she was basically saying they were all fucked up in their own ways so no one had any room to talk about anyone else.

    20. Well, I think you gave me some insight into the workings of Tina Kennard’s mind. From the beginning of S1, I had the feeling that Tina was floating on some kind of idealized cloud with “the most amazing woman in all of Los Angeles”, and Bette’s human frailties kept coming in to destroy her separate happiness. Tina knew their relationship was troubled, hence the trip to Foxworthy, but she couldn’t just end it if the spark was dying. And Bette’s cursory, even cruel treatment of her (dismissals, anger, etc.) were tolerated. I think the Candace incident was the final straw that finished off her illusion, hence the angry ‘fuck you’s’ and fighting and her tearful collapse in Alice’s arms as she completed another link in The Chart. (where was Candace on The Chart in S3 anyway?)…Okay, there is a point to this rambling. You pinned the tail on the mysterious donkey that has been Tina Kennard’s motivation, as far as I am concerned. Or, at least you are in the ballpark. How’s that for a mixed metaphor? Great story. Loved Maxine and Evelyn. Yoda must be taking the day off and granting her powers to Alice. Thanks!

    21. I don’t care Tina is gay, bi or straight. The only thing I know is she is very irresponsible. Did she just take marriage as an easy way out? If so, it’d be more dangerous for Bette to stay in a not-so-legal-form-of partnership with Tina.

    22. Once again I say Wow…Wow…WOW!!! Your writing is…so real. The way you interspersed their actions with their conversation about something totally different was incredible! Thanks!!

    23. “Ah, the Empire Strikes Back”…Yoda did reappear long enough to neatly summarize the state of things in the Framily…for that I thank her…Alice is the true soul of the group, as she proved this season, Alice and Leisha doing all the heavy lifing, as she did in this chapter of your story. Can’t wait to read her conversation with Bette. I also hope Tina will allow Angelica to see her other mother – and meet with someone with a lot of letters after her name. Thanks!

    26. there was a lovely woman named Bettewho lasty has seemed to forgetif Tina went bye byeand Bette no more crythere might be hope for last yet!You are an AMAZING writer you know! the depths and complexities and the humor and the pain…

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