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Blinddream

Blinddream
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February 08
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An Ordinary Soul
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if they leave early
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"Under the circumstances... are more circumstances." Born and raised in Wisconsin...23 years in Upstate New York and retired in Mississippi. Viet Nam 69-70 44th Scout Dog Platoon 25th Division Printer of magazines for 30 years. Published Poet. All pieces posted are original works of mine therefore copywritten. These pieces are soley for the reader's enjoyment and cannot be reproduced without the author's consent.

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JUNE 7, 2012 6:57PM

OS Weekend Fiction - The Head Voice/The Popeye Chronicles

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I'm submitting two Flash Fiction pieces and I don't think either serves the prompt but here it is:

 

The Head Voice

Blinddream 
06/2012

“Who gets to be the president of the voice club?” The loudest voice asked. Then several other voices spoke up mumbling, stuttering, murmuring about what was being said. In all there had to be seven voices. That was a lot for a head to handle but it had gotten to the place where one voice had to be in charge. The committee gathered and it sounded like an orchestra tuning up. Every voice, voiced their opinion to almost no end when that voice which could be heard over all others seemed to control the podium. The other voices stepped back in a submissive way as the first voice exclaimed, “I think I hear voices!”

“Well, it wasn’t me,” said the second voice.

“Nor I,” said the third.

“It could have been me as I’ve been known to talk to myself,” the forth voice explained.

“Well, I never,” the fifth voice started out when the sixth voice chimed in, “never what?”

“No! I don’t believe it was any of you,” the head voice said then continued on with, “I believe this came from somewhere outside of where we reside. There is another world I think which feeds information to the processing agent which shares this place with us.”

“Here! Everyone, come over here and listen,” the head voice directed whereas they all moved to one side of the room and heard, “Next!”

The word was followed by, “How can I help you?”

Then another voice responded with, “Well, Doctor, I keep hearing voices.”

“Are they attached to anybody?” The doctor questioned back.

I wonder if he hears the voices I hear; if they are audible from my ears, the Doctor thought to himself.

The voices collected by the head’s ear jumped back in a state of surprise at such conjecture. At this place the head voice said, “Shhhhhh!”

 

Secondly:

 

The Popeye Chronicles

Blinddream
06/2012

It began with a craving for spinach. Marge served it with pork chops and a baked Idaho one night and I found myself a asking for it again the next day. She said ok but the third night in a row, I got a look from her; one of those long stares that penetrate. In two weeks time I was buying extra behind Marge’s back. I’d eat it frozen out of those vegetable freezer bags like a sugar freak did M and M’s. She left me several months later when I started to gallop down the sidewalk with both arms pumping together.

Then I noticed something weird. My forearms were muscling up; almost, downright puffy. A month later my voice changed and it now ranged between a bullfrog and a billy goat. My right eye began to shrink while the other bulged and when I laughed this, “Cu,cu,cu,cu,cu” came out.

I got another craving other than spinach which started a few months later. It was for a tall, skinny, high pitched woman with a Greek name and goal post legs. One year later I found her when purchasing a sailor’s hat. She called me Popeye and I called her Olive Oil. Her sister, Canola had a child out of wedlock then passes away leaving Sweet Pea, her child, with Olive Oil. We were a tossed salad of life.

Things settled down after that for awhile, when one day when I didn’t expect it, the Jeep appeared then disappeared. The Jeep was a magical dog which sort of looked like a balloon dog a clown would make. I was glad he was housebroken. I got an urge for boating and bought a small craft. Eventually I changed my last name to The Sailor and have been looking for my Pappy ever since.

Anchor tattoos and a smokin pipe seldom lit seemed to garnish my psychosis when during my travels, I picked up a cheap, hamburger eating friend and a brute of a two faced enemy. Life was a cartoon of sorts but manageable.

 

 

 

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Kafka would be spinach green with envy.
Wimpy! Well done. The hamburger too.
I sometimes think I would find appointing a head voice very useful. Nice twist at the end. I think second fits the prompt because I never related to Popeye. I always hated spinach and rooted for Bluto. R
The audio and visual and continued use of the page.
Flash is an excellent form, no rules or obligation.
You do it well, BD.
Yes the voices. I hear them too... mostly when I'm in a Target or Walmart! They are always telling me to go to aisle 23 for a clean up.

As for Popeye, well that was just comical the whole way through!
Rated to the power of 2
thank you all for stopping by and commenting.
I currently live in what was a Victorian seaport. Popeye is real, and so are all his pals. Their ghosts haunt us.
It is hard to get any work done when the voices in your head are squabbling. Though, when one of them has a good story to tell, everything's jake.

Finally, Popeye makes sense!
Very interesting pieces. And thanks for giving me another good reason not to eat spinach! :-)
The Head Voice: so what is so unusual about that? hey, don't be rude to him. how was that rude? I want to know why so little is getting done by so many of us!
The Popeye Chronicles: In 4th grade I wanted to be Popeye. I would run around the playground exactly as you described, imagining my inflated swinging forearms.

Weird fun, Blindream!