.-(🌙)-.I've been giving regular members of the public tours of my fiction warehouse, without their consent, by grabbing them, whether from the pub or a fellowship meeting, and placing them on a craft, then whisking them away to one of my favourite scenes from the many vistas I've manufactured over the years from being sat solitary at a desk, mostly looking up at the ceiling I might add. In actual fact, I once wrote an entire book about a guy looking up at the ceiling. And one about a guy who couldn't roll over in bed.
Because he was a half ton Daddy, he needed a crane poking through a removed roof to turn him over.
He blamed his weight on Irene in the canteen who dished him out too many beans.
If you are extremely overweight, don't worry about it. At least you don't disappear when you walk behind a lamppost. Or have to worry about falling down grids. Nobody can read you through a newspaper. And you can't abseil from a Dorito. You wouldn't like to be built like a Rizla, would you? Or a whip?
I'd normally say here be proud of who you are, but that sounds corny, as if it were coming from a self-help site. This is no wellness-speak emanating within. It's sheer entertainment. Along with the bent truth and a slap of auto-fiction, which we adore. Just be a regular stand-up guy or girl, that's how I get by. All the comedians are stand-up mostly, although I prefer some of them on game shows. They bring us laughter, which is joy. Echoing from the belly.
Back to the tours. I've been imagining taking an audience into the fabric of my fiction. I'd show them all the penultimate scenes and action sequences. Much of it is drama, nothing much happening, but it would be nice to watch. The beginnings, the endings, the kisses, the fights, the reveals, the suspense, the mysteries, the pinpoints of the arcs. There's so much, I've been doing if for thirty years, they reckon don't start too young because you haven't lived yet, but I couldn't help myself, like one or two others, I learned early on to escape into fiction.
I just witnessed one of my earlier characters in the pub. Seriously. Her name was Breeze. We did lots of intimate activities together. The crescendo was at a fairground. We had priority seats on the biggest and best attraction with one another. It was called The Ascender, and even better than Nemesis at Alton Towers. We pumped our fists in the air at the peak of the cloudy escalation. Yes, it was high. Very.
I don't know what a character of mine was doing in the same pub as me. It happens sometimes. Life throws up a curveball. It's better than seeing a ghost or a wolfmans, so I can't complain. She didn't see me sat there in the corner by the rainy window pane, yet I recognized her immediately. It was Breeze, from my second effort in the Twisted Sister Series, the homeless slovenly scruff bag who flipped her life around to become a coveted sex icon. I won't go into her anymore, as she led a disturbing existence underground in the sewers, but she was like a lover to me.
It's nice having a 'twisted sister' in real life. She inspires you to write for years about her. And then, when you present her with the book she's single-handedly inspired, she doesn't have time to read it, tossing it to one side without so much as a thank you. So you write another one, hoping she'll be more interested. If it's better. If it's cleaner. If it has her name in bold italics on the front. But she still ain't all that interested, coz she isn't into reading all that much.
She prefers music. But you don't record her a song, coz that would be weird. Well you do, but you keep it to private viewing. Nobody likes to be smothered with obsessive infatuation. I should know about it, as I'm a Targeted Individual. This is why I write strange material about having twisted sisters.
Not all of my sisters are twisted. One is terrified of me. She thinks I might 'throw a wobbler' anytime-anywhere because of my mental health. I'm unsure what it is she expects me to do exactly. Thrash the cornflake aisle, whilst shopping? Stamp over the flowers in the park, when out for a stroll? Or rip someone's head off and poop down their neck? What exactly is she suspicious off?
Another one hugs me, which is nice. I think she trusts me. Everything was perfect with her at one point. Then I sold her computer games for drugs. Or was that my step-nephew? I can't remember. Does it matter? Whoever's games I sold was important to me. But not as important as a bag of fast.
I wish I hadn't done that. Fast makes me scared of the world.
I hate stepping over kids to use. Every addict does it. But we strive to reach out in good time and claim them back. If we stay on the right path, they usually return.
Don't worry children, I'll take you to the panoramas of my stories. I swear, you'll enjoy yourselves there. They were written especially for you.
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