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When I awoke from my doze we were driving

  • When I awoke from my doze we were driving across a black iron bridge, over dark water blanketed with large yellow leaves. We drove on in silence, and that was fine. About an hour

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  • before the Crypt Keeper's bedtime he woke me up. He said, "Sunlight's coming up, it's your turn to drive." We were making this huge road trip together because

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  • our counselor had correctly diagnosed that we'd been drifting apart for years. The road trip was meant to bring me and the Crypt Keeper closer together, like we'd been before.

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  • All I could think about was the shovel and the chainsaw in the trunk. "...and remember the time you..." She's not wearing a seatbelt, I thought. I could drive into the median and

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  • and create a horrific car wreck that would surely leave her incapable of chopping me to tiny pieces. He squeezed the steering wheel and jerked it hard. The car hit the barrier and

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  • crashed to a halt. The driver cracked his head on the door window. My would-be serial killer careened through the windshield in a cacophony of glass, but she caught the rail over

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  • the bridge and flipped into the murky water below; blood trailing behind her. Painfully getting out of the vehicle I bent down over the bridge and

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  • peered into darkness. As my eyes adjusted i first caught sight of foamy white from the raging river below. Although i knew the loss of blood would be great, from the bridge nothing

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  • looked dangerous at all. Those foam-flecked rocks were just styrofoam and whipped cream, I bet. Just in case I was wrong, I dropped a chandelier over the edge to see - when it

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  • sunk comfortably into the rocks, I realized the rocks were really TempurPedic mattresses. It was naptime, so I jumped over the cliff too, cuddled up with the chandelier & Zzzzzzzz.

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2 Comments

  1. PurpleProf Jan 24 2013 @ 20:14

    UNbelievable!

  2. BlastedHeath Jan 24 2013 @ 21:42

    Interesting ...

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