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06/30/11(Thu)00:03 No.1888340'Big Ben,
If
you're reading this, you gave your change of address without error,
great! Congratulations on the new job, the new place, and anything else
new and shiny. You've definitely earned it. Remember to keep in touch,
you didn't get there alone.
Best wishes, Mr. Cambill'
Ben's
smile fell. The letter fluttered down and slipped underneath the table,
from it's top he scooped a mug of coffee. In the kitchen toast rocketed
with a twang that made Ben twitch and empty the cup onto his face. He
cursed, sputtered, and rolled off the cushions for a change of clothes.
Caffiene streamed down his legs and left behind foot marks leading from
the couch, past the hallways, to a stop in front of a stack of boxes.
Similar piles lined the walls up to the window panes. They hadn't moved
an inch since he'd been there. Now he found himself cold, dripping,
forced to procede with straight razor in hand. He clipped it upward and
slit the tape, the wings unfurled and coughed up a plume of dust in
response.
Stuffed dinosaurs. Green, yellow, smiling and venemous.
He placed them back with all the scrutiny of a time-bomb, then proceded
counter-clockwise with cuts and slashes and ancient discoveries.
Instead of clean boxers and a fresh shirt, he found crumpled finger
paintings, yellowed school reports, letters recieved, letters never
sent, worn CDs, cracked vinyls, and many photographs still in frames. He
ignored anything he couldn't slip his legs through, shuffling by like
things would pop out of the wrong box. When he saw a pile of underwear,
undershirts, and even pants, he skimmed over it automatically and thrust
the blade into the next slab of cardboard. A lightbulb flickered in his
head and told him to tug the razor out. He did, and drew his garments.
-- First two paragraphs of what I wish to be my first novella, but things stop being as good as I want after that last sentence. |