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The Thai Dinner
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by Jade Scheytt
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The emotions coursing through the room could be described in several ways; “foreign”
was almost too literal as the pan seared and vegetables sizzled as they were shifted. The
aroma was harsh and warm. The girl sat still, eyes wide open, seeing nothing. Sfre could
not see past her grief and astonishment. T he buzz o f whispers were around her but blurred,
words o f sadness unable to be made o ut past her own disheveled thoughts. H er mother
sat, head in hands, unable to console a soul. How could she when there was no longer
someone to console her? The sorrow passed down the line, as each person was wrapped in
themselves and the cloak o f what had happened. “Gone” was the o v e r w h el m ing truth that
echoed through tlje house, drum m ing in every ear drum. The uncle spoke, saying some
th in g weak and impassionate. A response was mumbled in reply. The girl stared on, trying
to focus on the world around her, trying to focus on anything but her loss. H er little sister
wore an apron; even she felt the heaviness o f the room. She helped the guest roll out rice
paper. Both o f their faces were grim, as they p ut all effort into the meal at hand. They all
inhaled in hum id ait and took in. the flavors o f the meal before it ever reached their lips.
Fatigue was seen in every face. Suddenly the guest stated, “It is done.” Heads lifted in the
direction o f the kitchen toward a sprawl o f fdod set before them all.
One minute the girl was sitting, the next she was lifting her spoon. Eyes shut tight, she
begged for the flavors to wash it all away. “Mmms” fiiled the room, and the rough sounds
o f bowls and spoons took over the solemn silence. The guest must have known just the
right am ount o f salt to account for the tears. The panang curry was thick with comfort
and a longing to mend broken hearts. T h e one no longer there shared his final meal with
his family one last time. He would have loved it.
The Inventor’s Mentality
You’ve Never
Finer
by Keith Winans
by Aaron Leque
W hen do you start to believe in the Inventors mentality? -
Is it when he’s alive?
O r when he’s dead and buried?
Isn’t this rhetorically our reality?
Because mostly my effort was in designing this new reality!
From the atoms in my mind to this physical frequency,
From the inner dimensional,
Drawn out in mental lines o f x, y and zs,
From formations o f artificial realities,
Spanning throughout my mental laboratory!
Who can invent with me out to the edge of gravity?
W ho wants to build more vibrations of reality?
Creatively constructing inside microns o f restructured lines o f coded atom-ology,
3D printed inventions for your economical monopoly,
Rapidly fabricated using the latest in Nano-technology,
Perfecdy polished using Tesla’s high frequency philosophy,
You can’t mess with this,
Because it’s infinite energy!
Levitating transportation gliding on magnetic harmony,
Viscosity and Adhesion working in a vortex of horse powered geometry,
Expanding with the accuracy o f a galaxy,
I .ike spinning the latest inventions using the latest in holographic technology,
generating prime inventions off of ,the well know laws o f Universe-ology,
Like there plucked from the shelves o f God-ology...
And intensely studied for its human-ology...
Then quickly shared before death deletes the whole society...
So let’s get together and invent immortality!!!
T ik e
A gift of the occasion it had always seemed to be at once, when a solid
feeling came out of the great unknown -letting itself free to feel the great
injustice of the freedom itself, and the tortured inequality of those who seem
so far from us all- after a life of desperation, a single man stepped forward
in the line.
His name was greater than anything one might believe to be something
more substantial that anything anyone might see on their late night/early
moaning news repertoire beatings o f other people we can do nothing to
apprehend or console. This man’s name was Stanley Wayward, a fitting
name for a man who only thought about stepping out his next foot in front
of him (not at the occasion of progressing in line (which was what he was
doing at the moment)) b u t to be actually take the act into justice; to do what
one thought was impossible —an act of thinking, not of doing. W hat Stan
did was continue to dream, and hever act.
“Its been too long, since I had something good to drink..” he moaned
his way through the line as others didn’t dare look back, or even attempt the
socially heinous act of talking to him (much like any other pedestrian you’d
might see in a metropolitan/urban setting). Stan began to think if yawning
or sighing (a makeshift irate yawn) to display is unsetded dissatisfaction of
impatience in the line, in the cost of ostracizing himself among others who
might probably think the same. “I think I’ll just.. Try and think some more
to pass the tim e.” he mumbled under his breath -alm ost at point of in his
mind- and think is what he did.
A woman walked Stans way, making his last name appropriate: D ont
tell me you’re going to yaWn, God. I hate how everyone in the city just
yawns, all o f the tim e -like they own the place,”
“Well, I suppose..” answered the somewhat meek soldier of his own, dis
posed atmosphere, only to be shared with those we let in for a short while.
“I saved a spot for you,”
“I see that,” she complied and noticed the small compact space of air and
concrete where he opened up with his arms in length as if for a hug instead
of introducing reserved contemporary real estate, “thank you..”
“You’re welcome,” he smiled moderately.
FIN.