Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: David decides to take job as waiter to try to find inspiration, Fact2: friend and Shannon stumbles across Main St. Diner owned by Matt and Violet, Fact3: Matt had fallen in love with man, Fact4: Kryla and Shannon hail them as best work, Fact5: Shannon convinces David to break In aftermath of affair promise
Output (English): David Troy Ruptash is a wellknown artist who is blocked. He decides to take a job as a waiter to try to find inspiration. His friend and roommate Shannon Thom Allison, a preop maletofemale transsexual, stumbles across the Main St. Diner, owned by Matt Vince Corazza and Violet Cherilee Taylor, who are looking for a waiter. David gets hired and quickly becomes close with the couple although they dont know of his standing in the art community and are surprised to learn that hes gay. Davids friend Kryla Lynda Boyd, a columnist for the Winnipeg Tribune, tracks David down at the diner against his wishes. An annoyed David demands that she write up the diner in her column, which she does. The diners business picks up considerably. Shannon, whose sex reassignment surgery has been repeatedly delayed because of her HIVpositive status, begins to become ill. David has a painting installed and Kryla gets his photo in the paper. Matt and Violet see the photo and realize that hes famous. David and Matt start hanging out. Matt, who had tried his hand at drawing comic books, pesters David to show him his paintings but David resists. Matt confesses that he had once fallen in love with another man in college although he hadnt acted on it. David, finding himself drawn to Matt, paints him nude although Matt doesnt pose. He tells Matt that theres a painting he needs to see. Matt comes to Davids place and sees the painting. He becomes aroused and the two begin an affair. David paints two more portraits of Matt, who still doesnt actually pose. Kryla and Shannon hail them as his best work and entreat him to exhibit them but Matt, nervous about how Violet would react, makes him promise not to. Each also tells the other that he loves him. They keep the relationship secret, though, especially in the face of the vehement disapproval Kryla expresses to David at the idea of his sleeping with a married man. Kryla soon discovers the affair when she walks in on David and Matt having sex. A panicked Matt tells David that he lied about loving him and flees. In the aftermath of the affair, Shannon convinces David to break his promise and exhibit the paintings. He does so under the title Straightman. When Matt learns of the show he confronts David, first threatening to destroy the paintings and then offering himself again sexually. David contemptuously dismisses him. Matt tells Violet about the paintings and about the affair and admits that he is in love with David. She demands a divorce. Shannon, who has grown progressively more ill, decides to take her life. As she dies, David runs into Kryla at a bar and they have a bitter fight. Violet attends the opening but merely tells David that the paintings are very good. As shes leaving Matt arrives and she refuses to give him another chance. After the opening Matt again approaches David who also rebuffs him. At films end, Violet sells the Main St. Diner and Matt has left town. David has also decided to leave. He and Kryla reconcile.