The Most Glorious Pasteboard

From a review of one of Paul Monette's novels:

Every act, every event is cut and re-cut by the author's sparkling prose and bizarre imagination to give us new facets, new depths and new insights. The characters aren't quite real and--this is the author's triumph--it doesn't matter, because they are cut out of the most glorious pasteboard imaginable. They exceed mere reality, reinventing themselves every minute of the day, gathered into the artifice of creation itself.

Take a short story you have written and revise it with an eye toward making the characters into the most glorious pasteboard imaginable.