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My Grandfather motioned with his feeble hand

  • My Grandfather motioned with his feeble hand as I approached the bed. I bent down to listen to his last words. "Listen son... Eat... Sleep... Rave... Repeat."
  • "Wha-at?" I whispered in my dying grandfather's ear."I didn't hear..." But he was gone.I missed his last instructions to me: Listen. Feet. Sleep. Dave. And then 1 other word. Pete?
  • I closed Granpa's unseeing eyes & sniffled. Was it possible that old Grandad knew about how I slept with Dave & Pete & had a foot fetish? Perhaps he was trying to warn me about
  • the fungus among us. How could dear old Granpa have known? Then the fungus whispered to me "He knew." Granpa's unseeing eyes opened. "I have the fungus now.", he croaked.
  • I looked over & saw a large child-sized shiitake mushroom in bed with Granpa. "Git your peaty ass out of that bed," I burbled to the shroom. It ignored me & just cuddled closer to
  • the shriveled pasty corpse that was grandpa. Burbling didn't work, so I chortled, "Get out of bed giant shiitake!" The mushroom emperor opened a gill and let loose
  • A giant eyeball that took up residence in the ceiling. It spoke Chinese. Grandpa had been studying Chinese since 1935. It wrote with a brush and spilled ink everywhere! We tried to
  • teach it to type on a computer, but it said that it couldn't see the screen without binocular vision. That didn't sound right to me, but I suppose a giant eyeball would know about
  • those kind of things. "If you've never been twinned up, how have you managed to survive to this old age, for a giant eyeball, without binocular vision?"The giant eyeball considered
  • this for a moment and then, shrugging its optic nerves replied, "Oh well. At least I've been able to get drunk without having double vision." And I suppose that's something.
Started
2013-10-28 19:47:11
Finished
2017-07-13 10:57:32

2 Comments

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    Woab Jul 13 2017 @ 11:02

    Isn't it weird how Pete is mentioned in 2 and 3, and Peat is mentioned over a month later in 5?
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    SlimWhitman Jul 13 2017 @ 17:57

    It is. Eerie. By the way the fungus among us is a very old meme on this site http://foldingstory.com/awnsw/ is the first occurrence I think.

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