A scream.
Linda and Harvey looked at each other.
It wasn’t the children’s.
They spied a piece of clothing on the ground.
How peculiar.
What would that be doing there? Why was it inside their home?
Harvey turned the light back on, spying a shadowed, curled-up something in the corner of his room.
“The jungle must be playing with us.”
“It shouldn’t be.”
“ Why is this here?”
Harvey picked up the fungus.
“Absolutely disgusting.”
He walked over to the canvas, picked it up, and then threw it away. Then he spied something else.
“Dear god!”
Harvey walked over to the pools of techno-colored oils.
A spill.
“Damn.”
He went to work with his sponge.
Sponging oils was always fun.
He would be sponging up a storm, all on top of the brand-new material.
Linda sat there, and watched Harvey.
He picked up the sponge.
Harvey traveled to the door ajar.
He squeezed it into the sink.
He picked up the wet towel used to wash himself.
He washed himself.
Linda watched.
Time for an escape to art.
He’d just designed it.
He was incredibly proud of it.
His very own Jungle.
Chapter 2
It was his alone.
His proudest invention yet.
Linda ate an orange.
Chapter 3
He traveled to the jungle.
Time.
He was there.
They were there as well.
The random artifacts he’d found.
The children were there.
Not his.
He picked up a stray shoe.
It stunk.
He threw up.
It was purple.
He tripped over an eggplant.
He went back to the kitchen.
Damn jungle.
It's not done yet, so the backwards won't make sense, but let me know what you think of the reversal.
2 comments:
I like the idea quite a lot. Indeed, it did remind me of the Sideways Stories even before I read "it was purple," though I did find that reference itself amusing. I guess it'll be different when you're finished but this certainly seems like a cool idea.
Have you read any Jon Agee? (He has one on palindromes and one on oxymorons.) I think you'd enjoy him.
dude, roland, this is trippy
and i kind of enjoy
it, but then
i get confused reading
up instead of down and then
i lose it, but generally
i like it if
I could just learn to read better.
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