Shrugging Off The Bard

I run out of stories very easily, and then I get desperate, since the kids like to have me tell them stories.  That's when I draw from larger sources.  I've re-told Watergate a few times, with King Richard's men getting caught scaling Prince George's castle in the dead of night.  And finally, I resorted to Shakespeare - specifically Romeo and Juliet - I actually had to look up the plot to get the story right (there's a tendency only remember the balcony and the corpses if you don't revisit the plot from time to time).  But I re-told it, and Daniel had a fresh new perspective on this much-overrated bit of contrived story-line synthesis:

"Well, it's not a very good story!  At least two main characters are dead, which almost never happens."

(August 15, 2015)