Maiden of the Mountain_What It Would Be_Smiley's Revenge_Dr. Grimm’s Diagnosis
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Maiden of the Mountain
It was so terribly cold. Snow was falling, and it was almost dark. Soon it would be over, but in the meantime, I was treated to the strange and ponderous retelling of the story of my life.They say that your whole life flashes in front of your eyes before you die, but when you’re freezing to death at the roof of the world, it doesn’t work that way. Your life unwinds across your memory – all the heaping pile of it – but not in some colorful flash flood of sounds and images, starry and textured by the long decades of human experience. Nothing so spectacular. The spiraling death of the mind is a c...
What It Would Be
He had never seen snow, but he knew what it would be like. If he closed his eyes against the drab, grey sameness of the landscape about his house, and pushed back the stale, heavy air, suffocating under decades of use, he could see the world as it must once have been. He could see how the sky would roll up, puckering with soft heaps of cloud, gradually growing bulkier and lawww.onedoor.ccrger. He could feel the cold, clear bite of wind on his cheeks, washing away the stagnant air he had breathed so long, imagine raising his arms and letting the wind rush over him, chilling him all over. He could imagine hi...
Smiley's Revenge
Sometimes you just can’t catch a break…My name is Smiley. Yes, Smiley. I am a humpback unicorn with no real reason to smile, yet that is my name. My friends call me Smi and my enemies call me “The One-Horned Camel”. Well, they do until I run my one horn where they least expect or want it. My body is the pure white of most unicorns, and my mane and tail are a beautiful cream. My one true flaw is my back. I don’t know why it has a huge hump. I wasn’t born with it and no one in my family has ever had one or heard of one. It’s not a pretty sight, and it causes me terrible back pain. I am the onl...
Dr. Grimm’s Diagnosis
“Hello, it’s so good to see you. Come on in and have a seat. I was just freshening up from my morning walk.” “Thank you. It’s good to see you also. It’s been what, six months? I’ve lost track of time. Anyway, how’ve you been?”“Oh, you know…taking it day by day.”“You look tired.”“Well, I don’t sleep well. You know, the older you get the harder it becomes to get a good night’s rest.”“I suppose.”“You look well.”“Thank you. I’m in a good place now.”“Good for you...”“Listen…I’ve been thinking. We didn’t end things very well. That is to say, it ended rather abruptly.”“I guess, yes. Go on…”“Well, wha...