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- [ Only The Lonely ] [ By Hedge ]
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- Only the Lonely
- - a story about Negligence and its Consequences.
-
- By Hedge
-
-
- "I am so lonely baby, I am so lonely baby;
- I am so lonely I could die."
- (Elvis Presley)
-
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-
-
-
- <Taken from the executed prisoner David Mills diary:>
-
-
- FRIDAY 8th
-
- "Today I will write a little essay about loneliness, and what
- might be beyond it.
-
- Loneliness can be a very scary thing sometimes. If you have
- been there, you already know what I am talking about. Days
- pass by without anyone calling you, talking to you or visit
- you. It is like in that all too familiar nightmare from the
- early days of childhood, remember? You are standing someplace,
- it is cold, and there isn't a single soul around. No matter
- how hard you try, no-one comes to comfort you. It gets darker
- and darker by the minute, and just as you are hearing the
- first footsteps of evil coming closer, you wake up in a cold
- sweat. I have never stayed asleep long enough to see what is
- coming towards me from the incoming darkness. I don't know why,
- because I really want to know what or who it is that is coming
- for me. I can handle the fear by now, since I am older and more
- experienced, but somehow my mind doesn't wasn't me to see this
- being of darkness that may hold the answer to what loneliness,
- really, means. Maybe I am getting a bit carried away, just
- because I had this dream and these thoughts about it, doesn't
- necessarily mean that you had them too. Or at least, I hope,
- not as vivid as mine.
-
- Loneliness in real life isn't as scary as this though. At
- least not in the first stages anyhow. It's more like an emptied
- swimming pool at the end of the summer, a betrayal of high held
- hopes for something that won't come around until sometime far
- away in the future. Its just that you can't see the swimming pool,
- you can't put your finger on what you might be hoping for or
- desire. The longing is there, but its like a faint ghost or
- something. I don't know. Anyway, when there are friends around,
- they chase these ghosts away. It's like they were never there.
- It's when they leave and stay gone for a while the dreams and the
- longing comes crawling back through the woodwork. Sometimes it
- feels like sitting in a giant tube of glass, you know like the
- ones clowns pretend to be in when they put on a pantomime on the
- streets? You can hear people laughing and talking, you can see
- them coming and going, together or one at a time. The main
- difference between the clown-tube and mine, is that they can't
- see me. I am invisible. They can't even stop and laugh at my
- attempts trying to get out of there. If I stay too long at this
- stage without doing anything constructive to break the glass,
- it starts to feel like the air is slowly being sucked out of
- the tube. After a while, I am standing in a sort of vacuum, and
- now even the sounds fail to reach me. It's around this stage I
- feel the evil coming closer from the darkness. I must apply all
- my strength and mental abilities to fight him back to the
- darkness, and if I fail then evil will drown me, and make me a
- true member of his staff. I have succeeded so far in sending the
- evil back to the shadows, but maybe someday I won't. Perhaps I
- will find loneliness' true meaning then.
-
- Sometimes when I watch television and see those radical
- people that always test the limits I identify with them. The
- climbers and skiers all want to see how far they can stretch the
- boundaries. Perhaps this is what I am doing also. Perhaps I
- subconsciously want to be taken over by the evil, and instead of
- being subjected to negligence, do evil things.
-
- No, that can't be right. I just want to live my life as
- normally as possible, and to meet some more people. That's all.
- But why do I feel this urge to see the true face of loneliness? It
- can't be pretty considering my fear of it. Perhaps I feel it will
- bring me powers to end loneliness, to end others' happiness and
- increase my own. Could it be that I think the evil could give me
- the strength to strike back at those selfish bastards that never
- show up, or call? Maybe. But as I said, this is most probably
- just speculation. A few more visits to the neighborhood bar and
- some cold beers is all I need.
-
- Why doesn't anyone call?
-
- As I write this, I feel the vacuum creeping in over me,
- accompanied by the heavy footsteps of darkness. It has been a
- long time since my last battle, so I guess there are surprises
- waiting for me. I wont continue this essay. It's depressing me."
-
-
-
- SATURDAY 9th
-
- "I have been fighting darkness all day now. He is strong, and
- he nearly took me over there for a while. I managed to come
- back; a friend gave me a call and invited me over for a couple
- of beers. Salvation.
-
- Surprisingly, I came closer to Him than I've ever been before.
- Just as the horror began to be unbearable, a sense of relief
- started to fill my mind. Why not succumb? I thought. This can't
- be so bad, not anything worse than your other life anyway. But,
- I haven't seen the fine print of His deal yet. I need more
- information before I sign that contract.
-
- It is getting late, time to go to bed. I hope He lets me
- sleep the whole night through for once."
-
-
-
- SUNDAY 10th
-
- "As I am writing this I am standing just outside His doors.
- Yes, He almost managed to get me inside, but I had to go back
- once again. There is a festival in town for a few days, and I
- have talked to many interesting people. He didn't like that.
-
- He didn't show me the contract."
-
-
-
- MONDAY 11th
-
- "I have been staring at the walls for hours now. I tried the
- local bar, but it only made me feel worse. I had to get back
- home.
-
- I can't take this anymore. If He brings the contract later
- today, I will look at it. I wont sign it though. Perhaps there
- is still time for something good to happen.
-
- No, I wont sign it."
-
-
-
- TUESDAY 12th
-
- "He came alright. He had a friend with him this time. I guess
- you could call him His lawyer or something. They were very
- convincing, and I almost signed the contract. They brought it
- this time. Pretty harsh terms.
-
- Still waiting for something or someone. I didn't like His
- friend much."
-
-
-
- WEDNESDAY 13th
-
- "After a long discussion concerning the terms of the contract,
- I signed it. I had to, I couldn't stand it any longer. Now all
- I have to do, is to find some good tools. He recommended knives
- of all sorts, because they would bring more enjoyment to the
- corrections. They cost less too I guess. He sure did give me
- a lot of good advice.
-
- He also gave me a list of all people that had been bad to
- me during these last two years. Funny thing is, He even
- included the bartender at the local bar, I can't remember him
- doing anything bad to me. Strange.
-
- Actually, I can't say that any of these people on this list
- have done anything really bad to me. Well, except maybe the
- girl at the convenient store around the corner. She once gave
- me the wrong change when I bought some stuff there. But the
- others are a complete mystery to me, why are they on this list?
- All they ever did was to ignore me.
-
- I will go to sleep now. But tomorrow, no more lazy days.
- There is work to be done."
-
-
-
- THURSDAY 14th
-
- "Picked off a third of the people on the list today. I even
- went as far as trying to explain the contract to them, but
- they just kept screaming and calling me crazy so I stopped.
- Life makes much more sense now. No glass tube anymore, no more
- loneliness, no more sense of weakness or insignificance. I
- even made it to the headlines of todays' papers. Of course,
- they don't know who I am, but they seem to know about the
- contract. He must have tipped them off, I guess He didn't
- mind some free advertising.
-
- Now all these people, who had all the company they wanted,
- suddenly don't want any company at all. I guess that's why
- they don't go out anymore. They just sit at home. And when I
- show up, they all want to get away from me.
-
- Strange, there were days in my former life when a visit,
- any visit, could have saved a whole week for me. I wasn't good
- enough for them then, and I am not good enough for them now.
- At least now I get to play with them. And I like that.
-
- Have to go now, see you later."
-
-
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-
-
- FRIDAY 22th
-
- "An exiting week to say the least. I have almost finished the
- list, just a few dozen people left.
-
- Its funny when you think about all these people! All they
- had to do was to drop in from time to time or call me once in
- a while. Then they'd still be alive now.
-
- So my advice to all you selfish lowlifes that are left is this:
-
- Make sure to stay in touch. Someone in your vicinity may very
- well be willing to kill for some company..."
-
-
-
-
- "Why don't you give George a call darling, he seems nice."
- "Maybe I'll call him tomorrow, I'm not sure if he's what
- I need right now."
- (Some soap-opera)
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