Bad Guys Need Flowers - Pt. 15
**********************
There was no response.
“Mom?”
Silence.
Cal could think of only two possible explanations for the current situation. Either his mother had gone out, which she rarely did. Or she was dead, which she even more rarely did. In both cases, a rarity would again be responsible for disaster - Cal would remain hungry.
Also, in one of those cases, his mother would be dead.
“I hate the morning,” Cal thought. And with this thought, he realized another explanation. Under this third option, one of the other two would be proven wrong. The other would be proven right. Really, then, this new choice just rationalized one of the other two. It was not new at all.
What was it? It was the morning.
Cal’s mom always went out in the morning. Not usually being conscious during this timeframe, Cal discounted it from his universe. Thus, a reality in which his mom sometimes went out was distorted into one in which she did only now and again.
In every reality, Cal was still hungry. He was still tired. And he was now an idiot. After running into a door, dramatically opening an empty refrigerator, and questioning the pulse of a woman out on errands, a man needs no third party to ascertain his idiocy.
“Too much has happened.” This was what Cal said. The words sounded as if they were attempting to justify the occurred idiocy, giving the reason of cerebral workload. Maybe, by fooling himself into believing that he hadn’t acted like a fool, Cal could pick himself up and rejuvenate his weakening image.
In fact, they were words of surrender. “Too much has happened…” to be able to go back to sleep. This was what Cal meant. He started back to his room, awake, and aware of the path he had to take. He would put on some clothes, grab his jacket (an accessory to his clothes), and bike to the grocery store.
And he would do it all without running into a single door.
2 comments:
MANY VERY IMPORTANT THOUGHTS
----------------------------
1) When you publish this, you should include the comments from Chris and I as like footnotes at the end of every chapter. That should include this comment, which will be very self-referential and meta. Wicked.
2) When you publish this, I think it's very important that you have each page split into two columns. The flow and shape of the writing is very important to this, and if you stretched the paragraphs across an entire page it would be a big mess of single lines. The lines that are actually single in the current format must have their uniqueness preserved. Thus the columns.
3) I totally just realized Cal is named after Cal Ripken Jr.
1. Good idea, but I might just publish whatever notes you leave about Baby Pals.
2. I love the idea of pages with two columns. I do wonder about how the single line sentences would work. I'm pretty sure I took that from Vonnegut, and, now that I think of it, that's probably why they make his books kind of small.
3. Kind of. I also like the name Calvin from the religious guy, but I probably like that because of Cal Ripken. Whatever the reason, it's my fave name, and I use it for any video game avatar/high score list.
Post a Comment