Losing Time
“Tell me what happened last night, Ben. I want all the juicy details,” Scott requested.
“Sure. Judith called me over, lit some candles, had me look into her eyes and, all of a sudden, an hour had gone by.”
“So she hypnotized you and made you lose track of time?”
“No, we entered Daylight Savings.”
Well, we did enter Daylight Savings Time a couple of hours ago and the truth is I realized I had never written anything that touched upon the subject in more than 800 pieces of micro-fiction thus far. In order to do that, I felt like a bit of absurdity was in order and that’s pretty much the gist of it. I hope you had fun reading it.
Deep Inside
“Feeling gloomy again?” Tara queried.
“No,” Devon smiled, “but sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind.”
“True, but other times there’s no brighter place either, the shining ecstasy of surrender.”
“You always know what to say,” he drifted.
“And you always know when to listen,” she whispered.
The romantic in me decided to come out and play again. For that, I decided I was going to use another author as a source of inspiration this time around. I was reminded of Dean Koontz because I recently had the pleasure of rereading his horror/thriller novel Dragon Tears, a favorite of mine from my teenage years and there’s always something satisfying about using a quote as a way to generate something new and unexpected. If you can’t identify the quote in question, it’s in the second line of the tale right after the “but”. Tara sure knows how to turn it upside down too, don’t you think? May you all drift peacefully in the arms or in the mental realms of those you love.
Humiliation Games
“Hey Luke, did you finally get that session with your Hypno-Domme?” Cameron asked.
“Indeed. It was somewhat extreme though.”
“Oh?”
“I was feeling ecstatic so I asked for some humiliation.”
“Okay. Then what?”
“She put me under, handed me a PS4 controller and…”
“And?”
“And then she won fifteen Rocket League games in a row.”
This silly idea came to me because I do play the game from time to time. I don’t suck at it but I’m not particularly good either and there are those that feel humiliated when they lose a match so… perhaps it’s a bit too random but Randomness is yet another one of my middle names (I’ve already lost count as to how many I have – lol!). I hope you were somewhat entertained at least.
Movie Night
The credits faded to black.
“That was very nice,” Clark admitted.
“Really?” Susan asked.
“Yeah, it was quite cerebral for a horror movie. The hypnosis sequence was amazing!”
“Glad to hear it but…” She handed him the Blu-Ray case. “Look again.”
“Fuck!” He shouted upon realizing he had just watched a romantic comedy without complaining.
Unlike Clark, I don’t have a problem with romantic comedies. I’m not going to say they’re my favorite type of movies (the honor goes to sci-fi stuff) but I can have a good time watching them. I know it’s not like that for a lot of guys though and I wanted to play with the fact in a humorous way. You know you’re really under control when you see different things without batting an eye. I hope this one made you laugh because if it did, then my work is done.