Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: brilliant 17-year-old girl has spent young life fascinated by astronomy, Fact2: Marling gazes out car window Listening to story on radio about recently discovered Earth-like planet putting John Burroughs in coma and killing pregnant wife and son, Fact3: Rhoda chooses to work with After serving four-year prison sentence hands and to have minimal contact with other people becoming janitor at former high school, Fact4: millionaire entrepreneur is offering civilian space flight to mirror Earth, Fact5: John asks her to come back next week
Output (English): Rhoda Williams Brit Marling, a brilliant 17yearold girl who has spent her young life fascinated by astronomy, is delighted to learn that she has been accepted into MIT. She celebrates, drinking with friends, and in a reckless moment, drives home intoxicated. Listening to a story on the radio about a recently discovered Earthlike planet, she gazes out her car window at the stars and inadvertently hits a stopped car at an intersection, putting John Burroughs William Mapother in a coma and killing his pregnant wife and son. After serving her fouryear prison sentence, Rhoda chooses to work with her hands and to have minimal contact with other people, becoming a janitor at her former high school. Hearing more news stories about the mirror Earth, Rhoda enters an essay contest sponsored by a millionaire entrepreneur who is offering a civilian space flight to the mirror Earth. One day Rhoda sees John laying flowers. She visits his house, intending to apologize. He answers the door and she loses her nerve. Instead, she pretends to be a maid offering a free day of cleaning as a marketing tool for Maid in Haven a New Havenbased company. John, who has dropped out of his Yale music faculty position, has been letting his home and himself go, and accepts Rhodas offer. He has no idea who she is, and when she finishes asks her to come back the next week. Despite her fear, Rhoda returns to clean regularly but tears up Johns cheques. In time, a caring relationship develops and they have sex. Rhoda is chosen to be one of the first to travel to the other Earth. John asks her not to go when she tells him, believing they might have something together. She finally decides to tell him the truth about who she his. He is upset and throws her out of the house. Rhoda hears an astrophysicist talking on television describing a broken mirror hypothesis. Rhoda rushes back to Johns house, but he refuses to let her in. She breaks into his house, and he begins to strangle her. He stops, and when she recovers she tells him she heard that the moment the people on both worlds knew about each other, their syncronicity was broken, and that she thinks his family could be alive on the other Earth. She leaves him the ticket. In time, she learns that John accepted the gift and becomes one of the first civilian space travelers to the other Earth. Four months later, on a foggy day, Rhoda approaches her house, discovering her other self from Earth 2 standing in front of her, dressed as she used to before the accident.