Following “reflexive ethnography” and using a “layered narrative” of autobiography, academic argument, exposition, and fictionalization set within the “story” of the author as “I” and a group of childhood friends on a summer night, this text challenges the apparent hegemony of mainstream academic writing of applied linguistics and poses alternative forms of writing. This theme is “performed” rather than “explained.” Consequently, the text engages in what Denzin and Lincoln describe as the sixth moment of qualitative research, which calls for performative narratives blurring or eliminating the divisions between data and analysis through means of “creative writing” (e.g., scene, characterization). The following text, therefore, expounds on neither its theme, reflexive ethnographic approach, nor methodological positioning (above); rather, the text “dramatizes” its theme, approach, and methodology, with this present abstract signposting such intentions.1
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