[stylist] Let's Play

[Atty Rose]

Powerful and sad.
Thanks for sharing

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Homme, James" <james.homme at highmark.com>
To: "Writer's Division Mailing List" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2014 9:51 AM
Subject: Re: [stylist] Let's Play


> Hi,
> Since I started this, here is my try.
>
> Today I awoke to that shriek that beeps every half second. I placed it 
> across the room so that I would have to walk across the cold floor to turn 
> it off. I had to make sure I was awake. No choice.
>
> I can't miss my bus. I have two to take, plus the school bus. It would be 
> one leap to the floor and then across the room to quiet that stupid cube 
> for another day.
>
> My feet didn't hit the floor. My first leap still had me on the bed. My 
> legs were still straight. Then, another leap. One more. My feat landed on 
> warm carpet, not cold floor. I landed at the foot of my bed, not the side. 
> I leaned forward to get my balance. my hands, then my chest thudded 
> against a wall.
>
> It was Saturday, not Friday. I wasn't student teaching. I was sleeping in. 
> I wasn't in my college dorm room. I was home, in my bedroom. I hadn't been 
> in my twin bed. I was in my queen bed. It was then that I realized that my 
> heart was slowing.
>
> "Are you OK, son?" came my dad's concerned, deep, tired voice from his 
> side of the bed.
>
> "Yeah." I said.
>
> Then, a rustle, a click, and one more muffled sentence from Dad. "That 
> damned alarm."
>
> Jim
>
>
>
>
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