Short Stories

Well, I can’t talk about real business . I mean, I guess it’s just too much for me right now. I thought I was doing all right, but apparently not. I was trying to talk about things, but it got to be too much, so I guess I can’t really talk about things for a while.

This was gonna be a sister in law update, but I can’t do it. It’s too harsh. And I’m slow with this kind of stuff. Things happen and I know they’re happening, but it takes a while for all of it to actually catch up with me. Eventually it gets there, though. 

So I was visiting my sister in law, and at some point I was trying to avoid my father in law, so I decided to go to Walmart with my wife and my mother in law. Seemed like a pretty good escape plan. I got in the back seat of her car, and then they started talking about serious business. You know. The graveyard. And I was like, whoa. And then, all at once, what was actually happening caught up with me.

I started getting really hot. I was sweating like crazy, just dripping sweat everywhere. I started getting dizzy and nauseous, and everything was getting blurry. I was trying to roll down the window, but I couldn’t get it down. I was in the back seat, so I thought maybe there was a child lock on it or something. I was trying to say, “Hey, can I get some air?” and they were asking me if I was all right, but by then I couldn’t really talk. Everything got blurrier and blurrier, and then it just went black.

The next thing I remember, I was down on the floorboard and we were stopped in a parking lot. My mother in law had gotten out, walked around, and opened the back door. I barely opened my eyes enough to see her standing there, and in this very thick West Texas accent she goes, “Are you okay, honey?”

I tried to answer her, but I couldn’t really talk. I think I passed out again. I’m not sure. The next thing I remember, I was waking up in my in laws’ guest bedroom thinking, oh man. Too much stress, dude. Can’t be passing out. That’s not gonna be very helpful to anybody.

So I think I’m gonna change the blog up for a little while. I can’t keep writing about all this serious business right now. Maybe I’ll just write some fictional short stories.  Maybe some science fiction. Whatever comes out. Yeah. I think that’s what the blog is gonna be for a while. Short stories.☮︎☮︎☮︎