Anyone who says, 'I'm just an ordinary person leading an ordinary life,' is a big, old, liar, liar, pants on fire!
Sorry, that was somewhat overly aggressive. Let me put it to you another way...
Have you ever had something happen in your life, be it a single event or an epoch (never thought I'd use the word 'epoch' in a sentence), where you thought to yourself, 'that could have been a movie!'?
Well, that's what Stories from the Ordinaries is all about...
It's amazing just how much of your life is shaped by other people; the people who are around you (or who are not around you, as the case may be). Maybe not everyone has found love, but everyone has been in love, and that in itself is a story worthy of Hollywood. And then there are all the other stars of your unique masterpiece. You have the heroes, and you have the villains (sometimes the two are indistinguishable); the bit part characters and the main protagonists; those who knock you down and those who pick you back up; those who you couldn't do without and those you could do without; those who make you laugh and... you get the picture. Imagine how different your life would be if you had a different set of people around you.
It's hard to, isn't it?
So without further ado, this is my tribute to the ordinary... I hope you enjoy.
Elliot Jensen and Elliot Fintry have a lot in common. They share the same name, the same house, the same school, oh and they hate each other but, as they will quickly learn, there is a fine line between love and hate.