Sam's Story PT - 2 (662 hits)
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Submitted by Snark << snarkk.at.gmail.com (View user info) at 2005-06-08 17:33:51 EDT
The children endured and grew and eventually, they escaped.
One by one they found a way out from under the old man's depraved hand, and for the most part, never looked back.
When Sam's turn came, he traveled west. He left the flatland behind in favor of a greener expanse and settled in the heart of the northern forests.
He'd heard a man with a strong back and no education could make a good living there and he'd heard right.
He bent his thick farm boy frame to the jobs he found, and then used the money to travel, before returning to his labors.
He visited Europe and the Hawaiian islands; a simple man from a dark life, in love with the world.
He washed himself a little cleaner of his father's filth in warm blue waters and old world experience, before returning to the rugged north and the comfort of a hard days work.
When the old man's evil finally turned inwards and became cancer, Sam was summoned home but didn't go.
Year's later, when the cancer had almost finished the bastard off, Sam was summoned home once more but again he refused.
He knew he was the son of his father but he swore he'd never be his father's son. The old man wanted a forgiveness he didn't deserve, and Sam would be damned before he gave it to him.
When the news of his father's death reached him, he sighed, then blinked and carried on.
He shed his past like one would a shit stained coat and went on with his life, a little cleaner than before.
Eventually, he took a wife and began his own family in a small northern town; content that the past was dead and buried, but the past never dies, it sleeps.
The past waits and sometimes, when you're not looking, it sneaks up on you.
Sometimes you walk in the footsteps of the dead without knowing it. As my father did when he left the evil in his home to work in the forest, much like his father had left Romania to start a new life in the prairie.
He broke free from the darkness for something else and tried to find his happily ever after in a new place as his father had but - as with his father - the fates had other plans for him.
My mother and him lived happily for awhile but eventually the past woke from its slumber.
It awoke and perched itself on his shoulders then made to sink its jaws in his neck as it had his father, but he was not his father's son, and when it bit down it broke its teeth.
To be continued...
User Reviews
Submitted by Stabkill (user info) at 2005-09-10 05:19:57 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by thecaes (user info) at 2005-08-12 00:39:15 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Man, you should keep on with this. I've been wondering about it.
"Not right for what Uber's become?"
Dude. If you define Uber as juvenile crap, like most people do, then NOTHING GOOD is right for what Uber has become. If you don't continue posting quality, then the terrorists will have won.
I know how you feel, though. I posted something personal on Uber because I felt I had to right there and then, but strangely I didn't want anyone to read it, even before I clicked 'submit'...so I planned to bump it off the front page with another post immediately after.
Submitted by Snark (user info) at 2005-07-15 20:40:13 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Sorry Ruthless,
This is something I never should have posted. It's very dear to me and not right for what Uber has become.
Submitted by ruthless (user info) at 2005-07-15 13:25:59 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Where is the rest?
Submitted by c1ndy (user info) at 2005-06-23 12:06:05 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Nicely written.
Submitted by Snark (user info) at 2005-06-23 11:58:57 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
No Comment
Submitted by ProgramGeek (user info) at 2005-06-22 17:32:33 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
asdfas
Submitted by munkeypants (user info) at 2005-06-10 21:02:43 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by LadyPlural (user info) at 2005-06-09 21:10:22 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Utter rockage. As usual.
Submitted by Xena (user info) at 2005-06-09 12:06:40 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I loved the last line...
Submitted by wookie (user info) at 2005-06-09 08:32:07 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by shitfuck (user info) at 2005-06-08 19:52:02 (#)
Ranking: 2
Fuck, I thought I was one of three people on earth that read and loved World's End.
Now there's more of you fucks getting in on it?
Is nothing safe from trend these days? Nothing?
<gunshot>
<dead Asian slave tied to my stove whimpering>
<sirens>
<my lawyer's voice>
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Dude. Calm yourself. I read World's End 15 years ago. Boyle is a great writer/storyteller.
Submitted by badassmofo (user info) at 2005-06-09 07:06:26 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Very, very good. Writing and style.
Submitted by Benny (user info) at 2005-06-08 23:26:19 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Awesome stuff my friend.
Submitted by shitfuck (user info) at 2005-06-08 19:52:02 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Fuck, I thought I was one of three people on earth that read and loved World's End.
Now there's more of you fucks getting in on it?
Is nothing safe from trend these days? Nothing?
<gunshot>
<dead Asian slave tied to my stove whimpering>
<sirens>
<my lawyer's voice>
Submitted by thecaes (user info) at 2005-06-08 19:39:28 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Dude, I love the style you're using. I think I liked the first post better, but this was still excellent.
Submitted by Adamdidit2u (user info) at 2005-06-08 18:02:27 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Fantastic. I always love things written in this kind of style.
Submitted by Yes (user info) at 2005-06-08 17:45:10 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
a pleasure as usual.
Submitted by Snark (user info) at 2005-06-08 17:43:10 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Thanks Wookie!
It's always awesome to hear from you bro. I will check the book out.
Submitted by wookie (user info) at 2005-06-08 17:42:14 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I like this a whole hell of a lot.
And I highly recommend you read "World's End" by T. Coraghessan Boyle.