Horse - May 30, 2012

[note: this was written during a writing exercise: we had 20 minutes to write something inspired by the word "horse". This is the result, unedited, exactly as it appeared when time ran out. You can read all of them in the waves category]]

Horse - Squiddy Geiger - May 30, 2012

The flow of time stopped, at least for awhile. Sensory input stopped, as well. David just was. Without form or function. He knew this wasn't normal, but he also knew it was completely wonderful, and freeing. Until it changed again. Suddenly time flew by, and he felt his toes returning, then sensation flowed up his legs and into his body, a wave of euphoria as it reached his head again.

As he fought to regain coherence, he noticed the clock, the hands racing around the face. That couldn't be right, could it? Time moved slowly, this wasn't possible. The clock kindly slowed down again, the hands moving at a normal pace. He thought.

He realized the tv was on, but try as he might, he could not understand the newscaster. He thought it was English, but meaning failed to register. It had to be English, he recognized the news reader. Bob? Rob? Local station, local news, but incomprehensible. He lost interest in it in favour of the clock again, which was moving at variable speeds now, very slowly, then a burst of speed, then slowly again.

"Fascinating, Captain," he heard himself say, with an odd echoing quality to it. He looked around, expecting to see Kirk. With the way things were going, it wouldn't have surprised him. No Kirk, just a poster of the cast of The Original Series, signed by all of them at the convention so long ago. He noticed idly that it was crooked. Weird.

He sat down, unsure of when he'd stood up. He leaned back in the chair, and fell asleep, a light, unrestful sleep plagued by imagery similar to what he'd been seeing while awake. When his roommate woke him and he discussed his night trip, he couldn't argue when Josh called him a horse's ass. He'd vowed never to do acid again after the first time.

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