Sunday, December 5, 2010
Present Tense -- On A Bus
A woman is waiting for a phone call from a man she likes, while riding the bus. Suddenly, while the bus is atop a steep road, for no real apparent reason, the brakes go out, and the bus barrels down the road, veering off to the right and mowing down several trees in the process before flipping on its side again and again. And during all this chaos, while most people on the bus are either huddled up together praying or running around madly, the woman is thinking of the phone call that is yet to come. And probably never will come. At this point, the engine has blown up and everyone is dead. The woman's soul has just left her body, but it is still standing guard over the phone from her past life. She stands there for an eternity - quite possible, since time is irrelevant in the afterlife - and when she sees that her phone is ringing, a miracle occurs and she hops back into her body to answer the phone. Despite the woman being horribly mangled and burnt from the horrific bus crash, she picks up the phone and tries to sound as though she has not been in a tragic accident, but rather, that she is more alive than ever. It is not the man she was hoping to call her, but, rather, a wrong number. The caller apologizes for bothering her, and that she sounds defeated and should take a nap. And the tragic part is that she is now more awake than ever.
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Depressing :(
ReplyDeleteI had to see if I could write a depressing story, and I did. I'll be back to comedies, rest assured, but I have to change it up every now and then and try something new.
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