Short story 1

When I was a kid teachers would often pull me aside to ask me if everything was ok. I was quiet and had an untraditional at home life, my Dad was a drunk who ran a small illegal gambling ring, my mom, a hippie who often forgot to pick me up from school. Contrary to popular belief, I was damn happy. When Daddy went to jail he left Mama and I enough money so we could go out to eat and see some movies. Most of my time was spent wandering around the small Alabama town we lived in and as I got older, smoking pot in the tall tree outside the local church, smoke floating up through the Spanish moss. Soon I was all grown up. Daddy got out and Mama got sick, I left anyway. I stole the family car and some of the cash Mama never told me about and drove to Mississippi. Bought myself a little shack of a house and found a job at a used car dealership. Slowly the whisky and pot took over, my air changed from carefree to hopeless. I now know that the only difference between the two is energy.

In the movies, I saw as a kid with mama people had one of those moments where their life did a full 180 in a matter of seconds. I guess I was waiting for that in the worst place possible, all I wanted was for my life to change. It did not matter how but the boredom was killing me, my hands were shaking nonstop and weeks would go by in what felt like minutes. I believe in god, I just think he has narcolepsy. He was dozing off most of my life but woke up just in time to save me. I was walking down to the liquor store to get more whisky and pot when my 180 moment happened. She was picking flowers that were growing in the gravel outside Hap’s Liquor and Cigs. Time slowed, her eyes met mine, and looking past the baggy suit and tousled hair she smiled. With that smile came a cure, a cure for my shaking hands and my boredom. Most of all a cure for my hopelessness. I transformed back into the small blue-eyed 8-year-old kid that wanted to write fairytales and ride horses.

Author's Note

be honest

Reviews

[Zoya]

Aw, this is so beautiful! I myself didn't imagine that the story would take such an acute '180' turn. Though there are some mistakes, I enjoyed reading this short story of yours. Keep writing!

[sam376]

Please submit a review I really want to know if it is at least not bad.