My Mum has a patient. She is fine in everyway, healthy, happy; she can look after herself at home, feed, clothe and clean herself. She is an absolutely normal human being in everyway, (or rather as normal as any of us can ever claim to be) except she is one hundred percent convinced the Queen of England lives in her stockings.
Nobody else can see her, she says, because the Queen must make herself invisible, she hides from her enemies in my mother’s patients glorified socks.
And what if she is right? I mean if this was a fictional book that is the way it would be. The main character fights to save a Queen nobody else can see, she fights not only invisible enemy but a society that deems her insane because they can not believe what they can not see.
So if this life is a fictional book, and I am not even the main character, then why do I, or even you, exist? Maybe I am only here because my mother told her a story about me, a joke which I told or in which I am a player. You might just be a percentage point in a statistic she memorized, or a friend told her in passing.
Makes me wonder what my Mum told her, or will tell her (no guarantee my cross with the story doesn’t happen in the future), makes me glad I did, or worry I might not do, whatever it was/is I did/do.
Whatever
At least . . . better an anecdote on page 67 of a fictional book, than a pawn of the whims of the universe I guess.
Author notes
Just an idea I had, my mum really does have such a patient, so who knows, it could be true.
You're the human magic marker, won't you please surprise my eyes"
Sugar
A contest entry
- That's weird, eh? by Manifesto.
225 points, ended November 10, 2007, 14 entries
Honorable mention
• next story in this contest, remove from contest
What is it missing, where needs the most work and what to be done?
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wow wow lol
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Oooh very philosophical...well written and with an interesting idea. Have you read the book "Sophie's World"? It deals with a similiar concept...it's really good :]
Great work and good luck
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I have actually, but like when I was 12 so I think I missed most of the point and can't really remember the rest. I should probably re-read it.
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Or Both?
Ah! The old: Are we on the outside looking in? Or on the inside looking out? Actually Woody Allen did a pretty good job of this in a story he wrote about a guyt who finds himself a character inside Madame Bovary.
I guess not too many things new under the sun. But a nice start.
Queen in a stocking
King in a shoe
Jack in a beanstalk
What are we to do?
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oh my holy cow
i love it sooooooooooooooooooooooo munch!!!!!! Please write mor please!!!!!
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