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Children’s Story: The Elbow

At approximately 12:05 in the AM, 8-year-old Edward woke up to a sound coming from the general vicinity of his right elbow.

The sound went something like this MMMRROOEEEREW!

Edward turned his head opened his right eye and looked to his right and thought nothing of it.

At approximately 12:47 in the AM, Edward woke up to a sound coming from the general vicinity of his right elbow.

The sound went something like this MMMRROOEEEREW!

Edward turned his head opened both eyes and looked to his right, paused and thought nothing of it.

At approximately 1:20 in the AM, Edward woke up to a sound coming from the general vicinity of his right elbow.

The sound went something like this MMMRROOEEEREW!

Edward turned his head opened both eyes and looked to his right, took his right arm from under the sheets and stared at his elbow.  “What am I doing?” He thought to himself, a little embarrassed and he went back to sleep.

At approximately 1:45 in the AM, Edward woke up to a sound coming from the general vicinity of his right elbow.

The sound went something like this MMMRROOEEEREW!

Edward turned his head opened both eyes and looked to his right, took his right arm from under the sheets and stared at his elbow actually looking for some kind of audio noise making device or a mouth……”Stop stop stop” Edward thought to himself and quietly pleaded with his elbow. “I must be dreaming.”  He went back to sleep.

At approximately 2:05 in the AM, Edward woke up to a sound coming from the general vicinity of his right elbow.

The sound went something like this MMMRROOEEEREW!

Edward turned his head opened both eyes and looked to his right, took his right arm from under the sheets and stared at his elbow and started smashing it down on the bed, loudly demanding “WILL YOU PLEASE STOP MAKING THOSE NOISES, I MUST GET TO SLEEP!!!!”

“OWWW, what was that?” said Edward’s Father, who he now recalled had tucked him in to bed that night and was reading to him. Edward’s Father who cannot finish 3 pages of any book before he goes to sleep himself.

“Um, nothing Dad, you must be dreaming.” Edward said.

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Scenes From Unwritten Novels 1.6

The council reconvened after the break. The video from my len-senses was to be displayed.  This was Thomas’ final moments.  Most of the Major’s family stayed. His daughter and her husband left.  The video for the first 4 minutes was damaged.  When the technology repurposed itself, the images were not gruesome as some expected.  Though the wheezing from a punctured lung was obvious when he started to express what was eventually our final conversation.

“D-don’t, Second Lieutenant” he said.

“Don’t what Major?”

“Don’t say it, whatever were you just about to say. I don’t want it to be cliché, like an overdone death scene from a bad vid-net flick.”

“Major, I don’t understand?”

“Second Lieutenant, Mandy, Mandy Avari…. I’m bleeding out, suits damaged, air filter damaged, Alpha battalion will not get here in time for me. You and I both can see our vitals off our contact len-senses. I’m at peace. That, that thing, whatever it is, or was, we hurt it, killed it. Quite proud of you really. It toppled down that Canyon, you’re going to be fine but me….”

“Major, stop it please just …”

“Ah, ah, ah, no no no, you were about to say it? Something like <just hold on.> No, badly written death scene lines.  I need something real from you Mandy.”

“What? What do you need Major?”

“Mandy, you’re crying on your face mask, it will affect your visibility. I need the truth.”

“You need to conserve your air is what you need.”

“No, I need to know one thing. You’re true given first name? Come on now. Indian girl, Sikh, Mandy is short for something, is it one of the bad ones?”

“What?”

“Got you smiling….” Which one is it please, some truth …..Manmeet or Mandeep?”

“Oh my God really?”

“Yes, really I must know”

“It’s Manmeet.”

“Ha! I knew it. Did you get hassled? Must have got hassled when you were younger?”

“Yes, I got hassled”

“I would love to have hassled you Mandy Avari, I’m actually trying to impress you a little with my knowledge.”

“Colour me impressed Major Tom.”

“Heh, I actually read your file. I knew the name. Just wanted you to say it.”