Hiding from my head (669 hits)
Category: Quotes & StoriesRating: 2 on 8 reviews (Rate this item) (V)
Submitted by Parlor Trick (View user info) at 2004-06-26 12:51:19 EDT
[Caution this post contains no nudity, violence or cursing. Please take appropriate measures to achieve the proper state of mind.]
I had to separate before I came apart.
The things I was tied to had started to pull harder in opposing directions. It was starting to get uncomfortable and something had to be done. The specifics aren't important. It suffices to say I was stretched too thin.
I had to go. Check out for a while, escape the influences and regroup. So, when no one was looking (and no one was looking) I stole some time and slipped out the back. Grabbed my baggage I buried behind the barn and searched for a quiet place to dump my confusion on the ground. It was time to sort through the piles and get rid of the things that didn't fit, separate fact from fiction, give up on the leftovers and lighten the load.
I was going some place out of range and such excursions from yourself rarely get you to work on time, and the dishes washed or leave you in good standing with those around you pulling. Someone needed to step in to cover things in my absence, someone to maintain appearances.
So I left someone much like me, to wear my underwear, sleep in my bed, ask my questions, hang out in my head. I watched from my hideout through my piles of unsorted affairs as someone else confronted my consequences and curled my hair. I watched as they read my lines and I shouldn't have been surprised when my stand in decided it was time to go into hiding leaving someone else behind.
User Reviews
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2005-10-20 11:38:29 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
This is great.
Reminds me of a lot of stuff I used to write. Why I stopped I don't know. Maybe I'll post a big collection of it sometime. But this was really good. I'd personally had rather read it in verse form, but this is uber after all - home of the verseless.
Submitted by Pooz (user info) at 2004-08-24 04:37:09 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
PISS
Submitted by ruthless (user info) at 2004-08-10 16:36:31 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
You are my favorite writer today.
Submitted by dakingisdead (user info) at 2004-06-27 21:26:54 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Now that was a good Parlour Trick.
I know what you mean sometimes it is like we are standins in our own lives.
Submitted by ParlorTrick (user info) at 2004-06-27 01:05:26 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Thanks for wading through it! (I'll work on adding some nudity to the next one.)
Submitted by munkeypants (user info) at 2004-06-26 23:22:06 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
extremely well written. good details.
although i almost didn't read it becasue you said there was no nudity...
then again i always look forward to reading you sh... stuff.
just kidding. bravo!!!!
Submitted by Circe (user info) at 2004-06-26 13:40:29 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Very good.. deceptively simple.
Submitted by FilthyAssistant (user info) at 2004-06-26 13:03:31 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I liked this.