As she watches the blonde clop away on her ridiculously high heels, the woman seems to shimmer in the air, something else just barely visible…a man? Then it’s gone, he’s gone, and so is the woman, the inner office door snicking shut behind her.
She’s looking, bewildered, at the foreign desk top when the shimmering starts again – just behind the phone and the pen-and-paper-clip caddy, other things look like they’re fighting to become solid. Her university mug full of pencils and Sharpies, her photo of herself and her husband at Cabo San Lucas, her son’s graduation picture, the back of the nameplate she’s had for years, the one with the correct name on it, her name, not this Marilee Whoever. She has the absurd idea that if she could figure it out exactly, she could cleave this odd reality right off the top, to reveal her own reality hiding just underneath.
Or maybe she’s just having a stroke.
This is a Six Sentence Stories installment. The cue was “cleave.”
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Curiously I have had those days as well, it is as though the brain is checking and then discarding all the unwanted information into the recycle bin.
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Mysteriouser and mysteriouser!
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Like how you’re maintaining the ‘fact of reality’ within the story, while at the same time allowing the Reader to experience the possibility that reality is not quite the rock solid certainty that most everyone believes it.
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Real, not real? Curiouser and Curiouser!
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I remember seeing an old movie in which you were led to believe that this guy was in an alternate universe when in reality he had had a stroke and could no longer communicate or understand people.
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Very Twilight Zone-y! Nice!
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Oh interesting. Reminds me of a book I just read – Ashley Bell by Dean Koontz. She had a brain tumor and was operating in a different reality…so much more to it than just that.
Great Six!
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I can only begin to imagine what it would be like in this situation, trying to find clarity of mind and make sense out of the fog. Great use of the cue word!
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