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In experienced preparation for a day at The

  • In experienced preparation for a day at The Happiest Place on Earth, I consumed 800 mg of pain reliever, 100 mg of a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, and a cup of dopamine.
  • Coupled with a double shot of espresso from Starbucks & I was primed for my visit to The Happiest Place on Earth. Now if only Mo and Curly would not insist on going with me.
  • I felt a sharp pain in my stomach, my hands started to shake and my head felt like it was floating away. I knew I had to say something to Mo and Curly but I became so fixated with
  • the idea I was going through my first transformation. Working hard to recall my father's precise instructions, I suddenly realized I had company and quickly thought of an excuse
  • to encase them in a cocoon too. If I could synchronize our emergences, my time lapse video would win 1st prize for sure. I couldn't transform until I deciphered my dad's sloppily
  • scribbled suicide note. It took me a decade of sleuthing to decode the vexing symbols. With the help of an autistic newspaper cartoonist, I learned the shocking truth. "This is the
  • exact time and date and time that the world ends!" I said to the cartoonist, "He'd known all along. That's why he took his own life." "But that's tomorrow," he said. I knew then th
  • at Family Circle was a window into hellishly soulless human life. It was like the thick, unbreakable glass in a submarine from which to watch the noiseless strange creatures
  • mimic life in stylized, repetitive interactions with themselves and their icy, high pressure environment. Brief captions below the Family Circle window represent their speech.
  • Billy had to break away, but his destiny was laid out in a dashed path. 'Ida Know' and 'Not Me' were to blame.

1 Comments

  1. PurpleProf Dec 02 2014 @ 08:07

    Ha! Great ending, Chaz...

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