A Lawn Chair Short Story

in justbecause •  6 years ago  (edited)

A Lawn Chair Story # 1

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My lawn chair, and no it is not for sale

          Every day, for the the last 30 days or so I have seen you sitting in your lawn chair no matter where I go or what I do. I watched you for twelve hours hours one day. You never moved, never got up, never ate anything. You just sat there. The most movement was one time you cocked your head slightly to the right as if listening to something, then a slight smile, as if you knew what had happened.

          It did not matter where I went, what path I took, you and that chair were always somewhere along my chosen path. I even stayed at home for a couple of those days, yet when I would look out my window there you were. You and that lawn chair of yours as if there was nothing in the world that concerned you. As if you had nothing to do other than to sit and watch the day go by.

          Now here I am on a hike in the middle of the woods, and you are here. Why? You can not be following me, because you are always there already. No one knew I was going to go for a walk here through this woodland path. I have no phone with me so I know no one is tracking me through it, I have no electronics on me at all, no known method for my movements to be known.

          Who are you that I keep seeing you, and who is your friend that just showed up out of nowhere? I have seen him before one week ago, when you cocked your head, he showed up a little after that, then both of you looked in my direction. I went to get a second coffee, and he was gone when I came back, and you were back to just sitting and watching everything.

          “I did not believe you at first, now there is no doubt about it. What do you think it means? Two seers in the same general area at the same general time? They should not have seen us. Mine got scared by something, she ran into the street and got hit by a bus. I wonder what happened to her afterward? It was just after that when you called me to show him to me, wasn’t it?” Jolo Lo stated, asked of his friend Milan O’han.

          “She survives, she is still in the hospital recovering from her injuries. This is indeed an unusual situation. We were sent to find a seer, and now we have two, and something is not right. They still should not have been able to ‘see’ us”. Milan stated.

          U-hmm, excuse me, I not only see you, but I can hear you also. So, what are two, apparently invisible people, doing talking about me in the middle of nowhere? Apparently invisible because I asked on a couple of occasions if others could see you, they both looked at me as if I was nuts, so I stopped asking people about you.

          Now we are out here, no one else is around and I can talk to you and people will not think I am nuts talking to myself. So time for some answers.

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I love mystery and unexplainable, how many crazy things happening around us and sometimes we just too much in a hurry that we do not think about that. Like your story and it made me shiver, when I imagined that such situation could be a truth that someone could have such lively vision and see a person even talk but nobody else could see that person. Many people may think they went crazy. Interestingly written, intriguing, leaves all options open for further thoughts and ideas. Great!

Thank you for taking the time to read my little story. I did have fun writing it, and thinking, my brain takes some strange twist every now and then.

Hmm interesting...I kind of thought it's the message to someone who died and you were close to...and he was sitting on the chair in the garden all the time..And then, to escape the memories of him, you go to woods for a hike and there you suddenly saw some forgotten chair. That's what I have though is the story about.

And then I see the #fiction tag and realize it's all just...a fiction hah :D At least it's good to know you're not going through such hard times as missing someone :D

Congratz on the nice upvotes here :)

  ·  6 years ago (edited)

It just started to be winter here, and for some unknown reason, I was thinking about my lawnchair a lot. I liked to sit out and watch nature. So I thought I would try to write a short story about a being watching what to them was nature, but it got muddled in my head and well one thought led to another thought, and well that was the results.

My lawn chair has been set up in some strange places over the course of the last 30 years.

edit: Oh I forgot, thank you for actually reading the story.

Hah yepp I've read it as it was of reasonable length...on the other side, wouuld it be longer I'd probably pass it or read just some parts. Soo what were the other places where the chair was setup then? Sounds funny already hahha :D

Like most lawn chairs, it was originally for camping, then a couple of times in parking lots, from Oklahoma to Alaska, and Alaska to California and back again. It has been restrung twice, and getting to where it needs a third restring of the webbing.

Oh wow, I bet she could write a book if she knew how to :) Hope it will survive the third restrringing in good health :)


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Thank you for the promo drop and the vote and resteem, very much appreciated.

Perfect photo for the story, and perfect story for the photo! I keep going back to the photo to see if I can see him, too! Congrats on the @curie and @c-squared attention! It is well deserved!

Thank you I am glad you liked the story and the photo, it was fun to write.

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Hello jacksito, thanks for making my post one of the first you stopped by o, I appreciate it. As a new user and the RC issues, you need to be aware of and conscious of how you vote, and comment. At this early stage of the game for you it is important to vote on content of others, no so much on voting for yourself, you want to get a reward for your vote, that means finding post that are pretty new yet will get a few votes. be very careful how many comments you make that is going to really decrease your RC power fast. If you vote on something leave a comment that lets the people know you read the post. Just saying hello on most post is not going to win many friends and could get you flagged, (which you do not want).


Hola, Jack, gracias por hacer de mi publicación una de las primeras en las que pasaste o, te lo agradezco. Como nuevo usuario y los problemas de RC, debe conocer y votar cómo vota. En esta etapa temprana del juego para ti, es importante votar por el contenido de otros, no tanto por votar por ti mismo, quieres obtener una recompensa por tu voto, eso significa que encontrar publicaciones que sean bastante nuevas, sin embargo, obtendrá algunas votos. tenga mucho cuidado con la cantidad de comentarios que haga que realmente disminuirán su poder RC rápidamente. Si vota por algo, deje un comentario que le permita a la gente saber que leyó la publicación. Solo decir hola en la mayoría de las publicaciones no va a ganar muchos amigos y puede que te marquen (lo que no quieres).


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muchas gracias lo toma encuenta

A short, strange, and a bit disturbing story. Definitely a good one, I enjoyed reading it :D.
                       
Congratulations for your curie vote ^_^.

Thank you for reading it, and the curie was a total surprise to me.

My vote is worth shit now bro, I just gave most of my sp away, including to you my friend. :-) No questions asked, I tell you no lies.

Thank you, I have not looked lately. And everyone's vote is shit right now. It may go up, it may not. But it has been mostly fun.

:-)

Just looked, wow, thank. I might be able to give a few more votes now, will have to see if they count. Have the first super vote of 3.4 cents.

You do what you do best bro, go make some peoples days better, thanks for being you.

  ·  6 years ago (edited)

I will and the first person I am going to make happy is my wife so she can get back a a two cent vote for her photo friends. (If I can boost her there that is). Damn, no way, Still a little will help her.

:-) I will sort some more sp for you soon.

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  ·  6 years ago (edited)

I really do appreciate the vote, but it was just a little story. Thank you though. I also very much want to thank you for making me a reputation of 60. that was a long long haul.

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