The Psycho Ex Game

by Merrill Markoe

"Lisa Roberty is a successful screenwriter with an impoverished social life who's enduring a demoralizing job at the mind-numbing sitcom You Go, Girl! Grant Repka is an obscure indie rock musician who, in his forties, finds his career surprisingly resurrected with the success of his comic operetta about the doomed romance of Tommy Lee and Pamela Anderson. When Grant and Lisa meet after one of his shows, sparks don't immediately fly - but e-mail addresses are exchanged. A my-book-for-your-CD trade and a couple of e-mails later, Lisa tells Grant that she enjoys his song "My Psycho Ex," but warns him that where Psycho Exes are concerned, she's pretty sure she "could drink him under the table."" "Little does she know that this will become the opening salvo in an epic e-mail battle dubbed "the Psycho Ex Game," a storytelling competition in which horrific tales of dysfunctional love and living with lunatics are volleyed with glee. The rules are simple, the point system unique: the experience