Strange Holes in Space (439 hits)
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Submitted by SweetCheebs (View user info) at 2007-05-24 12:41:48 EDT
Holes can appear in strange spaces, and lead you to stranger places. Some scientists believe holes to be rather simple. An opening through something, a hollow place in a solid body or mass. Then there are those that know better.
Joey was in a rut. Life passed him by like a summer rain, with the sunlight hesitant to show itself. His time was spent working at the lumber mill, sawing away at an assembly line of endless branches. He had worked there since he was 8 under the watchful eye of his father, who had disappeared when he was 14. The other workers were getting old and frail. They couldn't do their job without him, and so he kept working. Hardly noticed, he lived on, not knowing what for. With no friends or family to speak of, he longed for a place where he could live and be loved.
Sometimes Joey gazed into the night sky, counting the blips of light and guessing if each one was the place he was destined to be. He imagined the party's, the conversations, the women, all the things from the movies he had never experienced. The night he gave up on his counting was the night he decided he was through with it all.
Joey awoke on this fateful morning ready and willing to end his own life. He grabbed his individually wrapped cyanide tablets provided by the Stuart Lumber Co. and walked out the door. (You never know when you'll be crushed under a log in this business). Just then it occurred to him that he had never considered where he would want to die if he had a choice, but the decision came to him before he had a chance to think.
It had been 5 years since Joey had visited the field where he had last seen his father. Its appearance hadn't changed one bit. Sprawling plains with the remains of what was once a forest containing thousands of trees. Many massive stumps still stood, a mere shadow of their former majesty. He remembered when the tree's came down. His father was there, and after a hard days work he had taught Joey how to toss peanuts into the air and catch them in his mouth. He didn't know why the memory was so prevalent, but he cherished it.
Joey stood atop the hill on the edge of the plains and looked up to the sky for what he thought would be the last time. A wave of emotion washed over him as he reflected on his life and all things that could have been. There was nothing here for him, and he had faced his fears. He propped himself up onto an old stump and grabbed the cyanide tablet from his breast pocket. One side read "Stuart Lumber Co", the other side showcasing their finest depiction of a skull and crossbones with a smile strewn across its face. It was time.
"I'll be with you soon father," he said aloud, and tossed the tablet into the air. As he leaned back to catch it, the familiar sound of splintering wood invaded his ears. The tablet bounced from his nose as he twisted to regain his balance. When the surface of the stump gave way, Joey went with it. He struggled to remain conscious with the sensation of traveling faster than the speed of light. A large chunk of the universe passed him by as he flew through infinite space. At the moment he thought he would die from the shear sensory overload of the experience, it stopped all at once.
When Joey regained consciousness, he was unable to move. Vertigo held him in a never-ending whirlwind of fear and confusion. He knew not where he was resting, or what brought him there, but it didn't matter. For now he was content to lie still in recovery. A hint of warmth touched his shoulder, rousing him from his lethargic state. A familiar voice spoke.
"Joey?"
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I'll continue this if enough people want me too. Let me know you filthy heathens.
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Submitted by TheUniter (user info) at 2007-05-24 14:52:07 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Submitted by messmind (user info) at 2007-05-24 13:06:37 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
not bad.
ICO ; pos't s'thing !
Submitted by sweetcheebs (user info) at 2007-05-24 12:58:41 EDT (#)
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I hope the point off was for the whole thing and not just that, considering it was an odvious mistake and I used the word "trees" properly a few sentences before that.
Submitted by ICO (user info) at 2007-05-24 12:47:45 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
You do know the English plural as a rule never uses an apostrophe, don't you? 'trees' is perfectly fine. 'tree's', on the other hand, isn't. Not at all.