Short Story is Up

Thank you everybody, for taking the time to read and comment on my short story.  I greatly appreciate it.  I've put it up on a separate page, and once I finish my edits, I'll put that version up, just in case you ever feel a burning desire to read it again--which I'm sure at least 75% of you will.

I shall now proceed to take this moment to address some questions about my story.

1. I didn't particularly write this story with the intent to be humorous, rather, I tried to write it with good humor.  
2. My deepest apologies to the many of you who felt that it was a "bad parody" of those beloved bible stories that we grew up with.  It was certainly not my intent to mock the Word of the Lord!  I just wanted to make the story of Noah more real, and the story was partly just my feeble and unworthy way of honoring Noah's Ark.  
3. As for the long monologues, I'll just say that my initial reasoning was that nobody had really done a monologue yet, so I decided to throw a couple in.  Later I decided it fit the tone, and matched the characters of two exaggerated, and kind of crazy, characters.  However, I definitely think that they could, at the least, be broken up and interspersed with some kind of revealing action.  Perhaps.  I'm not quite sure I can trust your judgement over mine!

Finally:
I'd like to explain how I came to this story.  My initial idea was about a guy who has a sort of magical bell that rings whenever he misses out on a chance for adventure, which would have been almost constantly.  Then I read Puneet's short story and thought, "Hey!  It would be cool to include a Noah story in my story!"  So I decided to make my story about the one person who helped Noah, and why he did that--which would have been because he was desperate to find adventure.  I thought about reasons for a magical bell, and decided that aliens could give it to the guy.  At that point I thought, "This is stupid and isn't going to work."  The next day I learned that my story wasn't due the next Tuesday, like I thought it was, but on the coming Thursday!  So I was back to work on my magic bell story and I realized, this is gimmicky and I can't hold it up the whole time.  (I still think it's a cool idea though.)  So I trashed that guy, and replaced him with Luce, who didn't want adventure after all.  Then I just wrote stuff, and happened upon symbols, and chances to put in more MONOLOGUES!  Yup.