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garoteIt came when I was least expecting it; a man out of the bushes without flesh, a man, nothing but bones. A human skeleton, walking towards me without aid of muscle, gristle, fat or brains. No eyes in the sockets; the empty holes stared straight through me and right into the depths of my soul. I could tell it used to be a man because the hips were far too narrow for the skeleton to have belonged to a woman. Once I decided that I wasn't seeing things, I heard a voice.
"Out of my way."
I did as the voice, apparently belonging to the skeleton, asked, and I stepped aside for him to pass.
He flew past me with grace and ease. His gait was even and quick. As soon as he had come, he disappeared into the bushes.
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Date: 2009-09-13 01:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-13 08:47 pm (UTC)It was just this text, nothing else, and it had no coherent modification date - claimed to be from 1937. That _may_ mean it's from 1987 and the ][gs-to-image transfer just subtracted 50 years for some reason. I can't be sure.
'87 seems plausible... That would mean that it's not from my ][gs, but actually from the Apple ][e that I owned before that, and that it began its life as a file wedged onto a Prodos 8-format 5.25" floppy disk.
I don't remember writing it ... So my guess is, Skot did. We used to share disks between our Apple ][s fairly often.
Hee!
Date: 2009-09-17 12:45 am (UTC)I just happened to think of you and check this page for no real reason, and yeah, I wrote that! No memory of writing it, but I recognized it. Weird to be confronted with a random fragment I never would have encountered again, probably!
Out of curiosity I did a search for "skeleton" on my hard drive and found a file called SKELETON.DOC, last modified in late March 1998, which I had placed in a folder named 1994. That would place it in my freshman year in high school, when I was trying to write a surreal/horror-ish story every week. That was all the text in my file too! There were many misfires and this must have been one of them.
Hard to believe I haven't just thrown out everything like that. Just goes to show that when everything's digital, it takes more work to discard stuff than to just keep it all.
Re: Hee!
Date: 2009-09-17 12:54 am (UTC)Most people just nuke their juvenilia at some point, but I never did, and I'm kind of glad for that -- it's endlessly entertaining whenever I go dipping into it.
Re: Hee!
Date: 2009-09-17 05:42 am (UTC)Yeah, I'm glad I never threw anything away either. I can be selective about what I put online or publish, but it's nice to have all my old stuff heaped in the archive just in case.
Been a long time. I hope life in SF is going well for you ... it's got to be better than the "life" offered here in San Jose, that's for sure.
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Date: 2009-09-13 11:50 am (UTC)People are easy to move, once you get the hang of it. Most people yield to command without really bothering to consider who it comes from.