Friday, October 8, 2010

Preview

I glanced down into the blue light. I could make out an image, maybe a person, but I was too scared to really focus. I looked back at Tommy.
“Are you sure it’s real?”
“Hell, yeah,” he said, grabbing the rock from my hands. “If you’re too chicken shit to look in it, I’ll give someone else a turn. You can have your five bucks back.”
“But where did you get it?”
“I told you, I found it, that’s all you need to know.” He hopped back onto his bike, the rock under his arm. “You want to find out or not?”
Shit.
“Okay,” I said.
Tommy smiled that devilish little grin of his and hopped back onto the grass.
“All right. Now just look in it until you see the picture. It will be there and it will tell you your destiny. Your best moment. The highlight of your life.”
“How do I know it’ll come true?”
“You’re such a chicken shit. Walt Greaney saw a bank vault and you know he’s a genius with money. And Sara Tomlinson saw herself at a beauty pageant – Miss damned America! It’s totally psychic, man. Just look!”
He stuck the rock out at me. I took it, sat down, cross-legged, and looked at the surface.
The blue light slowly grew and I could see an image. It was a person, definitely a person. It was me. I could tell it was me, but I looked so old, so bald and pudgy. I was holding a bowling trophy.
I threw the rock as hard as I could.

4 comments:

Mike Robertson said...

Awww. What a triumphal moment for that protagonists.

Nicely done in so few words sir. A full story of a life!

Steve Green said...

Short and witty. :)

Tut, some people are never happy are they? A bowling trophy would be the pinnacle of achievements for some. :)

Anonymous said...

I feel so sorry for the poor kid- to be shown that old, bald and bowling is the highlight of your life? So sad.

A. S. Boudreau said...

poor kid. Maybe that bowling trophy would make him rich... (hehe)