CARUOSEL

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CAROUSEL

The swirling mist gradually cleared, only to reveal darkness, leaving Maurice

indignant.

“What is going on here? Why are the lights off?”

Maurice felt more than he knew, that his thoughts never became verbalized.

“What the …Why can’t I speak…?”

“Oh it must be the after-effects of the anesthesia, it will clear soon”, he reasoned

to himself,

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“but those bumbling doctors are going to have a lot to answer for, I didn’t pay

to be treated like a lab experiment.”

At that moment, Maurice noticed that he was moving, he knew that it was under

his own accord, but for the life of him, he could not discern how. The movement

was not his familiar gait; instead, it was a fluid swiftness that was totally alien to

him.

“What’s going on…? “ he thought to himself

Though he could not see anything, Maurice knew that he was walking, if walking

was the correct term for his movements, for he instinctively felt that he could

move much faster if he wanted to.

“What’s happening?” He tried to call out “Doctor…Doctor…? Nurse… where

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the blazes are you….?” Fear rising inside him as his thoughts again remained

unvocalized.

“Why can’t I speak? I hear my thoughts, why can’t I voice them?”

Maurice went to touch his mouth when he realized with horror that he had no

hands. His blood ran cold with fear.

“Wha… What’s going on? Why can’t I feel anything…no wait I can feel the

surface that I am on.”

Maurice thought it odd that he would describe the floor he was walking on as a

surface. After all, why not just call it a floor? ‘And why can’t I feel any…

“Oh my goodness”

Maurice thought with shame, that he was not wearing any clothes. Though the

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thought disturbed him, it also bemused him at the same time. He could

imagine what the newspapers would print if they found out that the “king Of

Retail” was caught running around in his “birthday suit”.

With that thought behind him, Maurice started taking to his present situation

with the same gusto that enabled him to build his fortune while at the same time

destroying and ruining so many lives along the way, he smiled his predatory

smile at that thought, as he took to exploring his surroundings.

“Hey this isn’t so bad; I can’t remember the last time that I felt this great”.

As Maurice was traveling along, he started realizing that although it was dark, he

could still sense his way around objects, though he could not explain how.

“What did those doctors do to me I move quicker than before, there

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Is no difference between darkness and light. I am…”

“COME”…

The one word command echoed violently throughout his head with an intensity

that threatened to shake his over taxed sanity.

“What…who… who are you?” Maurice stammered

“YOU MUST COME NOW!” The unknown voice continued

Maurice was totally shaken, he sensed rather than saw the others.

“Where do you want me to go?” Maurice asked

“YOU MUST COME NOW, THEY COME!”

“Now see here … “ just then Maurice was struck by a perplexing thought

“wait a minute, how are we talking… you and I”

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The question was moot, Maurice seemed to know that the words spoken were

through some sort of l telepathy with whoever was speaking in his head.

Maurice’s instincts screamed for him to follow the voice, but his old arrogance

surfaced like a diver needing air and overrode any thoughts of him following the

Voices instruction

“Listen here, I don’t follow orders I give them understand?” He said arrogantly

“COME”.

The voice repeated with less intensity than before, the command

echoed, as if the owner of the voice was moving further and further away.

“Come”…

less intensive,… and then silence.

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Maurice was getting nervous again, but his bravado face was still showing.

“Now see here, where are you? I demand that you answer me… you hear me? I

demand that you answer me now”

Maurice was rewarded with silence.

“Hello?”

Maurice tried one more time.

“Oh well, good riddance to bad trash I always say.”

voice dripping arrogance

All of a sudden a tremendous noise assailed Maurice’s senses,

Maurice tried to scream.

“My god what is that noise”

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but some deep instinct inside him told him that it was footfalls on tile floors.

Maurice’s bravado was fleeing quickly as he immediately started heading away

from the sounds, when another much louder noise assailed his sense.

CLICK…

With that, a blinding light, with the intensity of a million-watt bulb,

overloaded all of Maurice’s senses. The pain was indescribable. Maurice

quickened his paces, all shred of bravado now gone, fear being his only fuel.

Maurice scurried blindly, until he was engulfed by a shadow. Maurice froze, he

tried to look up.

“What the…”

That was the last thought that Maurice ever had, for the next instant the was a

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loud resounding

SPLAT…!

“Darn Roaches.”

The janitor stooped down with a tissue and wiped up the

carcass from his shoe.

“Guess I’ll get pest control over here again…” he said

And in room twenty-two in the private section of Saint Joe’s hospital,

Dr.Allen was shaking his head .

“I just don’t know what could have caused him to have a massive coronary, he

came out of the surgery fine … why didn’t he wake up? Guess that’s for the

coroner to answer. Nurse have him taken down stairs.”

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“Yes, doctor… and sir”

“Yes nurse”

“ it wasn’t your fault, besides, he lead a full life, he was rich, and after all he was

“The King 0f Retail.”

“Yeah, I guess your right.” The doctor replied

Dr. Allen left the room still shaking his head…

The following day at the dog park section, in the early evening, by a shaded

pool of water in Onondaga Lake Park hundreds of mosquito’s larva were

hatching,… and for one particular larva; the swirling mist gradually cleared, only

to reveal darkness…

END???

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