Friday, October 01, 2004

The Paul Disconnection

Paul Roberts woke up in the middle of the night about five seconds before he was actually awake.

He looked down at himself with a perplexed look; there he was sleeping, ignorant and peaceful. Before he had any time to really react to the fact that he was watching himself sleep, however, the Paul that was sleeping suddenly woke up and looked down at his bed, with a slightly confused expression. It registered somewhere in the back of Paul's mind that that had been him about five seconds ago. Was the Paul he was watching now seeing himself sleeping too on the bed, as he himself had just seen about ten seconds ago? Paul didn't know.

Somehow, Paul Roberts had become ever so slightly unstuck in time. Somehow, the steady, taut rope that was time had given him about five inches of slack to move freely around in. Paul Roberts was finally given a little extra room into the fourth dimension, instead of being flattened against the 3-D world like the rest of us.

He got up to look around at this new world. Five seconds later, Paul followed him out the door...

To be continued...

2 comments:

bingo and betty said...

keep writing, your very good. thanks

Alex said...

Yay, it's Donnie Darko.

Listen, about your iPod...just let it dry out, maybe borrow someone's fan and/or hair dryer and set it up blowing on your iPod for a while. That should fix it.