It's actually easiest to just start at the
- It's actually easiest to just start at the end of this story. Here I sat, celebrated war hero, Lt. Commander John Dykeson, about to take my own life. It had been a mostly good life
- filled with love and happiness, so why was I going to kill myself? Oh yes, I remembered, I had betrayed my country. I had brought shame into this family. It all happened when
- I smuggled Cryptic Crosswords from Great Britian to the States in my laptop bag. When they were published in the New York Times, people's brains exploded. In my suicide note,
- I made alphabetical lists of the sins of the first world, beginning with 'avarice' and ending with 'zebra porn'. For the remaining thirty pages, I gave a brief biography of myself.
- It was brief because I left out all the bad stuff that I'd done. I figured most of the evil things committed by me were really my parents fault because they were yuppies and well
- the easiest thing to do in life is to blame our parents for all our faults. At least, that certainly helped me feel they were so trivial that I need not mention them. Perhaps I
- was confused about whether to blame them or forget them, suffice to say, I was not well disposed regarding my kin. I was a mutant, an upstart, like nothing that came before.
- My parents promised me I was theirs but when the spikes drove out of my back and I felt more comfortable on fours, I ran out of Dodge and headed for
- Montana, where I could run wild and free...free of parents, free of painful back conditions, free of bipedalism, and free of all the lies I had been told. I found my nirvana in the
- simple pleasures of grazing in the rolling hills, fishing with my teeth, and generally laying about. A lonely memory of my mother came to me once, but then I saw a rainbow. The end
- Started
- 2011-07-01 17:05:43
- Finished
- 2012-12-13 16:35:37
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Mr.Tomato Dec 13 2012 @ 16:40
This is the best story I have participated in so far You'll always be remembered Lt. Commander John Dykeson, you were a bad man, but then again, your parents were yuppies.
Chaz Dec 13 2012 @ 17:45
When you are running around on all fours, you forget about suicide.
49erFaithful Dec 13 2012 @ 17:48
There's a lot here to absorb. Did John have the resolve to pull the trigger in the end? Is he really a Lycanthrope? Are John's actions the unavoidable products of a yuppie upbringing, or is personal responsibility absolute?
Mr.Tomato Dec 13 2012 @ 18:12
The way I see it, after seeing all kinds of rainbows and having discovered all corners of the beautiful Montana countryside, he remembered his cryptic crossword crime and decided it was time to pay his dues. What an honorable man.
DanMars Dec 13 2012 @ 18:24
:sniff, sniff:
SlimWhitman Dec 13 2012 @ 18:27
Lt . Col. John Dykeson has a conflicted foldinstory past. Interesting to have this character and Det. Manatee appear in the same story.
DanMars Dec 13 2012 @ 18:43
coming up next, When John met Manatee, stay tuned!