Sarah Lee, pie hater?

This was another exercise we did from my intro to fiction class.

We had to take a small statement and write a story about it from another character's point of view.

Here was our statement:

"Sarah Lee confesses hatred of pie."

"Welcome back to a Currant Affair. Our top story tonight, a shocking confession from the confectionariess Sarah Lee. Let's see the video."
"I hate pies. I just loathe them" she bluntly said in a press conference earlier today.
A reporter raised his hand. "Why do you hate pie?"
"There's no creativity left in pies. Sure we have desserts and there are main dish pies, but there's nothing innovating in them right now."
"But aren't there almost infinite combinations for desserts and main dishes?"
"Maybe but the genres are old and tiresome, they're still just basically desserts. Why the public won't accept anything else I don't know?"
"What kind of things have you tried?"
"First we looked at salad pie. The concept was too baffling for John Q. Public. Then we tried drink pie."
Some of the reporters shuddered.
"You can imagine how messy those were."
"So what are you going to do?"
"Well, they can keep using my name to sell other non-pie products, but I'm thinking of sellilng off our pie division. Mrs. Smith's has expressed interest. I'm just sick of pie."
The video ended and cut back to the studio.
"There you have it folks. How this will affect our sweet tooths and the company's stock value are yet to be seen. Goodnight."


I broke the ice and read my aloud first last Friday when we did this.