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TITLE (EDIT)
Greatest |
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The most brutal writing I've ever done.
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AUTHOR
A Delusion Of Adequacy |
ABOUT
THE AUTHOR
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[February 2002] |
AUTHOR'S E-MAIL ADDRESS
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AUTHOR'S OTHER TITLES (3)
Confusion Sets In (Poetry) Just a poem about feeling inadequate about yourself, ad who you are, to the point that you have become a ontradiction to yourself and unsure of what it is you are, and yet still trying to take care of... [34 words]
Describing (Short Stories) The only thing I've written that I like. [532 words]
You Verbally Bruise (Short Stories) Just fnding no depth in peope in general. [666 words]
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Greatest
A Delusion Of Adequacy
An ordinary day. If there was something to dignify it into a more spectacular day I'm sure i would recall such an event. I am of course with a good friend of mine. Now when I say good I of course mean best, but if someone were to question me as to why he deserves the title "best"...well i would most undoubtedly refrain from answering. Now when i say friend i of course mean...well friend, what else could I possibly conjure up other than friend? So we of course are discussing our days when he has a thought of dismembering himself by removing his legs. I know this because he then says to me, "I just had a thought of dismembering myself by removing my legs." Now of course there is now the awkward silence between the transition of speech. Now i think of a reputable response in, "I would like to gouge out my eyes with a ball point pen so i do not have to witness you in pain." I am nothing short of a best friend to him. Who could bare to see their greatest friend in such suffering chopping off their own legs off? Now i use the term greatest loosely of course. He may earn the title best, but greatest, he still is short in some qualifications for that title. I hope and pray that no one dares think of me as someone who just politely hands over the title to anyone who claims to be a friend of mine. I am much more critical and discreet than that.
So as our discussion continues he then decides that we should partake in these acts that have graced our thoughts. Again i know this because he notifies me of it, "I decided we should partake in these acts that have graced our thoughts." Naturally i will be the first to "partake in these acts that have graced our thoughts," quoting my "best" friend, because what type of friend would i have become if i could just witness my friend tormenting himself by impaling himself beyond recognition with the cutting off of his legs. I am possibly the greatest friend there is just because of this factor. I deserve the title greatest.
So now that the decision has been made to partake we begin in the bathroom and i am sitting on a white chair. I picked the bathroom so it would be easier to clean up. Picking a white chair granted was a foolish mistake, but this is not a learning experience. For you can only gouge and chop these appendages no more than once.
So my "best" friend hands me a black pen due to the fact i cannot pick one up for my eyes are close, for i of all people would not want to witness what i am about to attempt. Thinking, i wonder if my "best" friend deserves the title greatest. He did know to obtain a black pen for this occasion for i use no other color. Granted it could be blue and i would be oblivious for my eyes are shut and this would be something he would do. On the other hand he could have achieved the level of greatness if this ball point pen is black. Again he sent back to merely the best for his next comment was a retraction of his previous comment of wanting render himself with no legs. Again i am aware of this because those are his next words, "I would like to retract my previous comment of wanting to render myself with no legs." I can only assume this hesitant feeling comes from witnessing only what the greatest of friends could do.
I jammed the pen through my tightly closed eyelid. Closed in fear i may avoid the stabbing motion if i see it. As i felt it puncture the top of my iris i began to swivel the pen around so as to get a decent grip on my eyeball. For i would not want to leave any residue of my eye inside the socket that it dwells. As i give a quick tug and rip it from my retina i see with my right eye blue ink rolling off my face onto my white chair. This naturally is more upsetting than the actual act of ripping sight from my head. I was under the impression that he was more consciences of my personal feelings than that. So now that my left eye is dangling and bleedings all over the god forsaken blue pen it is now that he makes his statement that i had stated before. It is after hearing this that i would like to force this mutilated eye down his esophagus. But i do not say this out loud for i am beginning on the right eye.
So now as i sit here with both eyes in my hands, saturated with blue ink i pray that my "best" friend will come lead me to my bed so i can lay down for i am feeling a bit lightheaded and would like to take a nap. But he again falls short. I can hear his stomach crawling up his esophagus, the one in which i would like to shove my eyes and this pen down, and regurgitating his previously digested food. I sit here and try to think of what he is. I am sitting on this white chair, which is now discolored with shades of red and blue and purple where they have mixed, blinded for his benefit. And now he will most certainly not hold his end of the deal. I do not say any of this out loud, for what type of friend would i be, i would only become what i hate.
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"Fine, I'll accept that all your stories are going to be poorly written, and in far too conversational a tone. This is a cute little story with a clear message. Take it farther when you edit and rewrite it. Suggestions: Look up "impale" and a few other word before you use them again; use a spell-check; watch your grammer, punctuation, and syntax; and, try to make the timeline a bit clearer. " -- AJ Magy.
"Of course, "word" should have been pluralized as "words". Looks like I'm not perfect after all. (c;" -- AJ Magy.
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