Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Nightmare 1








        I am waterskiing in the ocean, feeling expectant and happy.   

    I haven’t waterskiied in years, but I’m with friends (friends I can’t identify) and confident.  

    I ski for a while and then find myself, having dropped the rope, in the middle of the ocean, all alone, no boat in sight.   

    The air is chilly and it’s getting dark.







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6 comments:

  1. Nin AndrewsNovember 9, 2011 at 1:47 PM

    Nightmare indeed!

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  2. ACravanNovember 9, 2011 at 2:36 PM

    Every word of the description guaranteed true and accurate. FYI, the top photograph shows Rock Hudson (r) waterskiing in Italy in the mid-1950s. Curtis

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  3. John PtakNovember 10, 2011 at 5:57 AM

    That's a bad one. Did you hear anything at all when you were alone in the ocean?

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  4. ACravanNovember 10, 2011 at 6:21 AM

    Only intermittent up-and-down sounds of wind grazing my ears and small quiet sounds of rising and falling waves. Curtis

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  5. TCNovember 10, 2011 at 9:02 AM

    The adverse health effects notwithstanding, hypothermia's just a state like any other, the kind, healing voice assured us, as the undertow sucked us down.

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  6. ACravanNovember 10, 2011 at 1:02 PM

    An odd one, this. I used to love waterskiing and never associated it with anything but good times. Curtis

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