He proceeds with the check-up but asks how my day has been. I recount the events while excluding the strange man in the waiting room. He asks, 'I hope the wait was not too long. I know impatience can run some people mad'. I tell him despite my appointment, the wait has been acceptable. He tells me, 'Steer clear of unacceptable things like that dangerous bike path you ride on…but no broken bones today.' I leave my checkup with bandages and some pain medication but still, I see the strange man outside.
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The Reduction-The worried man
'Hello, I didn't drink the water as you said.' 'Good' 'But how did you know he was going to tell me to drink water?' Seated outside the hospital he begins to tell me a lot. His name is Orson and he feels he's seeing things. He talks about the history of it and how he takes relaxant pills because of his heightened anxiety but is questioning everything. He narrates some of the dreams he's talking about but one of them sounds similar to the plot of a movie I've watched which I point out and he says, 'I know, I know, I narrate some of the dreams I have and people think I slept watching some movie or the other but this feels real with different named people. That's how I knew you and knew you shouldn't drink the water but I don't know what's happening to me'.
By Merritt Xavierabout a year ago in Fiction
The Block Mayor
Like every warm day, Terrence is finishing this day on his L-shaped porch, sipping whisky from a dented flask. Cars pass by slowly, and he watches young women pushing babies in strollers; he hears the neighbors’ arguments and knows which have a regular income and those who are unemployed. Terrence is the self-appointed block mayor, laying judgment on his fellow folk.
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