Fandango’s Story Starter

This week’s Story Starter teaser is:

Alan suddenly realized that he might be alone for the rest of his life. He blamed it on that new tanning technique he found on YouTube. It supposedly guaranteed you would only use it once and never have to tan again. He daubed it on liberally, and just as the ad predicted, his skin started to darken. The next morning he woke up to find it was so dark, he no longer looked like himself. He was scared. Looking in the mirror he looked black, no longer the white skinned man he knew himself to be. He turned on the shower to hot and scrubbed himself raw, but the color was permanent. How could he go hang out with his white supremacist friends, or be in the Trump rally’s? How could he be accepted at work where all the people were white? He had no idea how to act, he had no black friends or Hispanic or other races? He was a “dyed in the wool” white man! He picked up the bottle of tanning lotion to read the directions and saw: “Warning, do not use if you are a racist.”

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