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.







6 comments:

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

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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. An odd one, this. I used to love waterskiing and never associated it with anything but good times. Curtis

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