part two the map and its meaning
evvin scooped some more food for zoe. he wanted to study the map again. then viki enterd and said "that sure smells good." pa said "enjoy" as viki grabbed a bowl from the table, to serve herself. nobody noticed that ma was missing. the boys continued reading.
in his small bedroom he pulled the map from a folder and gazed yet again at the english letters. he saw on the top of the page "cf,ea,14" and "gf,ag,23" what word could be cfea?
at the bottom of the long narrow page was the number 5. but that would mean it was the fifth page of the map book? the number at bottom is always page number.
the right part of the paper had a curved line that seemed like a coastline that reached almost to the top of the page and then turned left. kevvin assumed that meant it was an eastern coast curving westward so the water was on the north. north is up in most maps. the inlet of sea carved inland and around until the coast curved back to the right and the sea. there was a similar inlet in the middle of the map. but that one was shaped like a curved horse shoe or stem-goblet from the east coast toward the west. beside it, appeared the sketch image of a fish with a narrow mouth, like a beak or dolphin nose. and a flipper with a tiny line between the neck and flipper. this dolphin had a long tail that ended in a fork... like two fins on a fish tail. yet unexpectedly, the dolfin was on the land. instead of in the coastal water on the east and south.
he gazed again from the top: "inlet, backward c, dolfin, 5".
where was there any coast that looked like that.
first based on the english letters, he had studied the east coast of britian but nowhere was such a pattern of inlets. second he had searched the east coast of egypt along the red bay, hoping for a treasure of the ancient civilizations in egypt. but that was very strait.
last he studied the coast of the amazon continent from the southern tip of the "pizza slice"-wedge and northward along the coast searching for these patterns of inlets.
continuing north until the imaginary and invisible equator, which is centered between the points of axis that the planet spun around. he knew that the only "real" direction on a ball is the points of spin. and since most land was in the north that was the top of the map with water around the side edges and bottom.
all along the east coast he scanned until the coast curved and changed to the north coast, so he skipped that part, since the map was clearly an east coastline. he continued scanning northward along the east coast of the narrow neck of the of the contin-ent where the land-contin-ued causing the name "contin-ent". he knew the north part was not an island separate but the land contin-ued. it must be one contin-ent same as word continue. again he carefully studied every inlet along the sea called gulf of mississippi named for the river that fed it.
but nothing matched.
he had ignored the south coast called state of texas until florida east coast. he carefully looked from there, northward and saw that same as last time, nothing matched. he looked along the coast and all the way to the narrow bay called chesapeak. no such inlets. he continued searching northward along east coast. nothing matched.
there must be a place but how? could it be the coast of china?
then it hit him!
how had i chosen the name enriq?
i had rolled a die with six sides. the purpose was for limiting the names so we would both choose a name that started with the same letter... 5 was e ! and the five at the bottom of the map was the clue... that was the east side. the map was not using north as up. this direction was part of the secret. the map needed to show the series of inlets on the long narrow page so the 5 was a code for e same as the name of enriq.
he had been wrong to ignore the north coasts.
now evvin started again, full of hope. now he could find it. he was happy that he knew the code now. he scanned from the north of canada. the wide broad gulf called hudson. that was too wide but maybe there were inlets... but the coast was too straight.
he scanned along the east coast of the amazon continent from canada to maine to new york to the narrow bay called chesapeak... but no water inlets matched.
only the chesapeak was an inlet that extended north... very narrow causing the name "bay" in contrast toany broad gulf. he was about to surrender in despair, from his effort of scrutiny, when he thout again of the treasure... and his joyfull new understandng of 5 means e. all thanks to the argument with his wife about the names! nobody else woulda understood the code. now he translated the word "cf,ea,14" and "gf,ag,23". cf,ea that must be 36,51 and the 14 must be a letter. and gfag meant 76,17. which letter was the 14th? he did not know. so he counted abc,def,ghi,jkl,mn. good 36,51n and 76,17... um w. yes!
they were map coordinates. where was 36n and 76w? he checked the map and it was chesapeak bay! the southern edj near the amazon ocean. the same place where he was looking when he almost surrendered in hopelessness.
he took a detailed map of virginia and studied the north coast of virginia by that bay. yes! those were the three inlets one shaped like a long pool shaped like a dolfin in the city of... oh no... norfolk virginia. that was the place of the military. he would not be allowed inside.
and then he understood... the government had known about the treasure and built a military base to gaurd the secret and protect the treasure.
now he would never find it... people had told him that the treasure was probably already found... but he had not believed them. he had hoped he could get the treasure and get a better home for his family... now he saw that the government had known about the treasure and built a military base in norfolk. all the ships were a disguise for the real purpose to gaurd the treasure. he was so sad that helost strength to hold his neck so his head dropd on the table. he wept... feeling far more sadness than when he had read that his wife left him.
he was too weak to even tell b that he "broke" the code. from the excitement to the despair was too sudden... he just sobbed.
enriq and allix were climbing the steps quickly. evvin heard but was to weak to pretend he was strong. enriq shouted in a concernd tone "dad ! did you fall why are you crying?" allix shoved an arm below evvins arm pit and hauld evvin up to the back of the chair. next allix looked at his pa, puzzled and said "jeez dad you scared us. with a bang and crying." he was surprised that they showed that they cared, until enriq added "yeh... i didn't know you were so weak and crying". enriq shook his head showing disappointment. the two boys left the room not noticing the note on ma's bed nor the map.
from the corridor, the voice came, gently so evvin heard one of the sons whisper "dad is such a wus. we better not tell him yet that ma left." evvin's eyes jumped open wide... they knew before he told them... the shock interrupted his sad tears.
the new emotion replaced his depressed state of lethargy. he was ready to update the archeologist that he knew precisely the location of the treshir.
he switched on the thin computer from its sleep. he opend a text file and began a short message.
"the treasure is in norfolk virgina near bay". he paused the typing and clicked on the symbol calld icon for the electronic mail. next, while he waited for the connection, he finished the short note. "the military base at norfolk is to hide and gaurd the treasure." then he copied the text into the email and sent it to her.
then he walkd down the steps to move the food to the frij and put the dishes in the dishwasher. hisknees ached even more when he walkd down steps. this surprised him kuz down was less effort.
to his delight viki had put her bowl and zoes bowl in the machine for washing dishes. he saw their spoons were clean and in the wide tall vase for drying the cutlery.
viki had even cleaned the table. that brought a joy that distracted him from his shatterd hope of the treasure... but a beep came from his phone... he saw a watsapp message from her...
the search for gold was not ended yet...
to be continued.
Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Saturday, January 18, 2020
treshir gold treasure edited
part one edited and improved since date 14
PART ONE the treasure map
note introduction: although the story is for relaxing and pleasure i hope to include and weave some thought provoking ideas into this following adventure story.
part one
A bus advanced along a wide rural street, that had a row of pine trees on each side. it slowd and muuvd toward the curb. when bus number five stopd, the doors opend, and the last passenger, Evvin stepd down to the cement pavement. he turnd left and wawkd quickly toward home. he had liit brown hair that was combed to his riit and hanging over his narrow forehead. his eyes were dull brown. his nose was smaller than average. his pale lips almost blended into the pale skin where he shaved his mustash every evening. the red had left his lips and seemd to have traveld upward to his bloodshot yellowish-white eyes with many red veins.
almost 24 hours since his shave, the brown hairs of his beard and stash were already sprouting again. Evvin Eavz rubbed his neck and felt the area was very ruf. finally he reached the way, that was paved with white concrete, connecting the sidewawk to the stairs of his small home. today as he lookd at the familiar steps, by the door, he realized that when he would be old those steps would be difficult to climb. but who thinks about that when buying a home?
he thout about his five kids. their names were: Enriq, Allix, viki, zoe, and qali. each name he had discussed with his wife wanda, who had kept her family name wafbirg, instead of joining the eavz family. they had each suggested names and the other had rejected them. each wanted the name that they chose.
the only solution would be to choose a third name so neither "won". they had rolled a die which showed five for the fifth letter. and rolled again to know which group of letters in the alphabet. when the die showed one dot pip they each started to write five names that begin with the fifth letter of the first group of letters: e. his list of names differd from hers despite the limitation that they used the same letter. neither could think of five.
his list was: ed, eric, enriq, and eugene. her list was: ethan*, erik, evvin junior, and enriq. evvin opposed ethan as too common and felt evvin junior was just a jab at him for not accepting her name-suggestions. the only names that agreed were erik and enriq, except the spelling of erik. so he said "look we both wrote enriq" she said "but its my idea--yes and i agree". so their eldest son was named enriq.
all this he recald as he walked along the way. he grabd the black railing and hauld his tired body up the two low stairs. each stair was only two-thirds the height of common normal stairs. the door that he faced was a tall and wide mesh of net of screen to keep the bugs from flying inside. it was lokd as he had instructed the brats. he smiled at his luck to "get obedient" kids who lokd the door. he inserted and turnd the key once and twice... but could not turn the second time. oof those brats... he had told them to "always turn the lock twice". how could they be so lazy and even disobey just for such a small difference.
a big gain can tempt a person to violate rules but who would steal from a shop just for something that had a small price. breaking principles for a small gain seemd worse kuz they could buy for a small price and for that small diffference they were breaking the ethics. for what small temptation and gain??
he enterd the home and wawked toward the kids who sat on the soft sofa quietly reading books. this old fashioned family would keep the classic enjoyment. after skool the kids could read a book that they chose and borrowed from the library.
large photos of paintings surrounded the small room, that had only one dark brown sofa. no other furniture. it was long enuf for the older kids and younger kids to sit. the youngest dawter "qali" was in the "playpen" like a small netted prison so she would not wander around and fall down steps.
qali had already started to walk. now she sat in the pen with her toys looking at them and putting them in her mouth. seemingly she enjoyd the touch of the wood blocks and plastic rings on her tongue. she could not be enjoying the tastelessness. yet she kept jamming different blocks into her mouth. trying to taste the different colors.
the two oldest kids, enriq and allix were reading adventure books. they fild two thirds of the sofa. the two younger kids fit on the third cushion. vikki was reading a book with very few pictures and zoe lookd at a book almost entirely pictures.
the home was so relaxd and quiet. no loud shouting from running brats and no loud noise from a television as common in other families. even no sound from the radio.
PART TWO in the sitting room
evvin said the required "hi kids" and the brats did not respond. had they not even heard him? but he must say it or they would feel he ignored them.
he approached the youngest reader named zoe. he lay his hand on her dark brown hair. she lookd up and smiled but just as quikly lookd down to see more pictures and read the words of the story. he could see it was about a pet dog, in the many pictures.
next he lay his hand on viki, and she protested, almost yeld "stop that". but he knew he must show them that he was not ignoring them. the older brats enriq and allix turnd breifly to glare at viki but she did not see their angry eyes as she returnd to her book about a fantasy world.
so they glared at him for causing the disturbance... again... they glared with a look that said "dont do this every night". so he wisperd "sorry" but not sorry at all. he would do it again tmoro so his kids would know he did not ignore them.
over the sofa was a large map of the world. in its center were the land masses: the nile continent and ural contin-ent surrounded by dark green water to symbolize the sea. this map was unique because the LENGTH of each country was the TRUE length, [in proportion to the ball] for example the country called russia was the true length along the top of the ball, from the sea called baltic until the pacific coast, that was west of the peninsula. this was important to evvin kuz 2 helicopters flying east from the same line of longitude, for example 32 longitude near the edj of baltic sea, one in north by that sea and another south near the nile river, each flying east at the same speed for same time, would reach pacific coast different times kus the north one went along the smaller length at the north top of the ball. no maps botherd to be accurate about length. when he finally found one, he was so excited that he bought and framed it in a bright red frame. that map, over the sofa was now behind him as he passd thru a small wiit door.
the map printer was careful that no "country" should be the name of any sea, but this was not important to evvin. just the true length. the sea was named with the common four names 1 arctic, north of the ural continent. atlantic, to east of amazon river, brahmaputra, south of the ural continent, and pacific", east of the ural continent. however, the name arctic was small inside parantheses, but in big letters was the name yenisei, same as the longest river that feeds that ocean. similarly, the name atlantic was small inside parantheses, the name in big letters was amazon ocean, kuz the same name as the long river that fed it.
the name brahmaputra rejected a country-name because the ocean must be shared. any ocean is not the ocean of any one country. this river was longer than each tigris and euphrates and was fed by some of the ganges river before pouring into a wide "gulf" that had no narrow neck to the ocean, similar to gulf of mississippi, that is south and around cuba. this gulf was wide relative to its size in contrast to bay of california to east of baja the mexico peninsula, that is long relativ to its size same as chesapeak or red bay that is east of egypt.
similarly, the name pacific was small inside parantheses but the name "chang" ocean was near the chang river that westerners called yangtze river, that was the longest river in the region and pours into the chang ocean. evvin wonderd what was the difference between a bay and a gulf. some foolish people had named gulf for both the wide water around cuba and the narrow water east of baja so this must be fixd.
behind him the reading room was 4 yards long and barely two yards wide. a lone small window was in each of the two outer walls. the map was beside one small window that had a curtain with wirls of rainbow colors. the second window was centerd in the space between the edj of the door and the corner. the was no television in this home. and no table for a radio in the reading room.
to his riit were narrow stairs upward to the upper level. there two bed rooms and two shower rooms with toilets, filled the small upper level over the reading room and kijjin. he thout that his wife wanda was up there in the room on the right side of the steps. he felt sad that he had the smaller room but when zoe was born they had needed to switch sides swapping the larger room for enriq, allix and viki.
he enterd the small kijjen and grabbed a giant pot. he filled it with water and lay it on the stove. he turnd the knob for the gas fuel. as the gas came up a spark lit the gas becoming a flame. much more convenient than the past when there were two buttons, a second for the spark which often did not ignite the gas anyway. the easy life of modern times.
as the water heated in the coverd pot he pulld the fresh chicken chests from his shoulder bag. he rinsd them and cut the chicken into small chunks. his mind was not on the work. he was thinking about the TREASURE map. he tossed the chunks of chikken into the boiling water and made effort to notice the time. as the water boild the chicken, he tossed spices inside. then he quickly peald and tossd whole onions in. next he cut many potatoes and carrots and splashed them into the pot. last he grabbed a bag of pasta and dumped that into the same pot. the flame would do all the work for feeding his family. while he thout about the treasure map and the gold treasure.
PART THREE
what would he do, if he had a treasure? evvin askd himself as he sat in the quiet kitchen to watch the pot. he would prefer searate bedrooms for the sons from dawters. but they had bought the small house before they knew they would have five kids. anyway they could not buy a large house. but truly if he had a treasure to sell he could sell the gold and buy a home so large that each of the five kids could have a private room.
his wife wanda worked in the management of a hospital. her salary was the source of the payment for the mortgage debt. his salary was pitiful from his technician job. he would go from hospital to hospital testing and maintaining the electronic medical devices.
he wished he was in construction building the new shopping centers, according to the plans of rich architects who did not see the situation on the ground.
only the rich could afford college which caused them to have huge salaries and grow richer but the sad part was they did not need the HUGE salary kuz even before the job their families were rich... so rich that they were rich enuf to pay for college... and almost endless luxuries.
the poor were the ones that needed the large salary but we poor, he concluded, could not wait four years for the training for the fancy jobs nor pay for college. what a terrible system. the poor were doomed to stay poor and get poorer as the few rich grew richer.
but the treasure gave him hope.
his frend from childhood had sent him the tresure map by registerd mail. evvin did not know how his ex-girlfrend gemma had found the map. he was delighted that she wanted to include him in the adventure of finding the treshir.
gemma had been his girlfrend wen he was in ninth grade. she was then in seventh grade. they continued the frendship until the winter when he was a senior, in twelfth grade. she wanted "someone better". she followed a guy named jayden who was "too cool" for anybody but still enjoyed that she chased him. after much asking he finally swapd his girlfreind named lezli. and started meeting gemma regularly. soon he was calling her "his gem" as evvin grit his teeth jealously.
evvin had written a poem to show his frustration. by the way poems "must" rhyme or they lack skill. try writing a poetic message while limiting yourself to words that rhyme... that is skill.
in a storm of jealousy and sadness and frustration evvin had written a poem about "felma". he chose the name kuz it sounded similar to wilma but had the letters like female. it could rhyme with the name thelma too.
as a jealous exboyfrend he had watched his closest frend clamber for jaydens affection... and win it as she "threw herself at him" just because people thout that jayden was cool. she would smother jayden with kisses as he smiled as the winner of a trophy... as evvin watched teeth clenched in frustration, powerless about his ex-girlfrend, the emotions motivated him to pour his emotions into words, so evvin had written:
"i miss you felma. why did you leave?
i feel so lonely this christmas eve.
i see you with that obese daryl.
grossly fat. a huge barrel.
i feel his skin thru your fingertips.
i feel his lips wen i see you kiss.
i feel my heart is between your teeth,
cut by incisors at each heart beat.
this poem had the painful description similar to the idea that was already in the song "obssessed by dynoro"but this was different style of rhyme and rythm. the idea was slightly different too. he could call it "inspired" by that song.
evvin was obviously from a poor family. no girls threw themselves at him, when they saw his simple clothing. he thout about becoming gay... since he cant get a girl but that specific action was physicly dirty. and for that reason in his eyes bad even gross. he felt that they had an illness same as those who enjoy jumping inside dirty soiled garbage bins... with waste stuck on the sides, no healthy person would enjoy that... that showed an illness in the mind that needed medicine but nobody would allow him to voice such opinions. only the gay had free speech instead of the thinkers.
not gay guy wanted to be his frend either.
there was one girl that enjoyed talking to him but she said she would never bother with any boyfrend. she just wanted to talk. since he was lonely he did not have any other option so he listened to her talk about life and emotions.
he showed her his poem and she could not see any difference between it and the song obsessed dynoro, but the rhyme and words were different.
years had passed until he met wanda. but that is a different story... evvin interrupted his memories to stir the vejdables and chikken.
evvin wonderd why had gemma sent him the map? he would get a chance to spend time with the one person that he loved and still loved... gemma. he had analyzed the map each night. trying to decypher the places. all his free time was on this mission. each time he made an increment of advance in understanding, he had written a message by electronic mail to gemma. she always replied the same day with encouragement and more information that was relavant to his ideas.
he felt that she understood him. and better than his wife wanda.
in contrast when he talkd to wanda, her responses had almost no connection to the topics he was saying. as if she heard different words in a schyzophrenic halucination and was responding to those words, instead of the words that he said.
she almost never understood him. he realized too late that he was mistaken to marry wanda but now he would simply tolerate her and not talk. he did not regret marrying her kuz he could not get the one girl that he loved, named gemma, who had been his girlfrend for a long time. nor could he find any other girl. they all saw that he lacked the money to buy them expensive presents and prefferd those that were able to buy them fancy presents... they could marry them and "buy stuff without even thinking about any budget" and best yet... if there was a divorce they would get a portion of the wealth... which girl would not be tempted by that?
evvin wanted to think more about solving the mystery of the treasure... but it was time to take the pot from the fire.
he checked and saw the food was ready and then sent a wutsapp message to the family watsapp group. he listend from the kitchen as the cellular phones of his kids beepd almost at the same time in the sitting room.
enriq wrote back "i ate too much today. i feel stufd". allix wrote back shorter message with picture: "not hungry" using the image of a rope knotted for the word "not". evvin opened his eyes wide in surprise as he saw that one.
similarly viki wrote "i wanna read". only zoe wrote back she was "coming in a minit" spelling words as they sound. should he tell her it was wrong? actualy "minit" seemd more precise and even univeral. anybody in any country would know the meaning instead of the sound of "minute" and traditional spelling. he did not bother to correct her that minute is speld with a u. also that word minute "described things" as an adjective.
last he noticed that wanda had not responded. perhaps she did not hear the beep.
he grabbed a brown boal and using a ladle put some chikken and vejdables inside for zoe. he lay it on the blue mat that zoe had made. she had cut shapes in wiit paper and lay it on blue paper then it was slipd into a plastic cover. a spoon and fork already lay on the mat. he noticed only zoe had prepared her place. she had even added a small sign. it had her name "zoe" and was hanging from green wool yarn from the chair, on paper. the yarn was runnning thru the holes [for the rings in a binder].
evvin climbed the narrow steps but felt pain in his riit knee. some days his left knee aikd.
surprisingly he thout "i wish i were with gemma' the same time that he enterd the room for himself and wife wanda.
the room was too quiet. not even a sound of breathing. "sweety" he whisperd not wanting to startle her from her sleep. last time he woke her by saying "wanda" instead of whisper and she had exploded that he had startled her and that was a bad manner to wake anybody... full of accusations over tiny issues.
so he adjusted himself to whisper, as he adjusted many things, to keep the family "together". no response. he did not want to switch on the light for her critical response would be the same. so evvin pressd the button on the phone to shine the dim liit of the screen on the bed where his wife slept... and saw that the covers were neat and the bed was empty... except a note.
now he switched on the liit. he read the note. "i have always wanted to leave you. i regret that my parents pressured me into marrying you. you dont even deserve for me to tell you except this note. i am not lost nor at any hospital i am simply leaving to search for the real me."
evvin collapsed on that bed, no longer his wifes bed, and sobbed... less for his wife leaving, but more for the loneliness... his whole life was empty and had always been empty.
after a few minutes of sobbing zoe was at the door and asked "pa, please serve me some more".
he swallowed his strong emotions and pretended to smile at zoe.
"certainly sweety. you must eat enuf to grow tall like your brothers"
zoe shot back in the tone of a teenager "i dont wanna be like dumb enriq. and dont call me sweety".
that surprised him so much that he finally genuinely smiled for the first time since thinking about the treasure.
to be continued.
note introduction: although the story is for relaxing and pleasure i hope to include and weave some thought provoking ideas into this following adventure story.
part one
A bus advanced along a wide rural street, that had a row of pine trees on each side. it slowd and muuvd toward the curb. when bus number five stopd, the doors opend, and the last passenger, Evvin stepd down to the cement pavement. he turnd left and wawkd quickly toward home. he had liit brown hair that was combed to his riit and hanging over his narrow forehead. his eyes were dull brown. his nose was smaller than average. his pale lips almost blended into the pale skin where he shaved his mustash every evening. the red had left his lips and seemd to have traveld upward to his bloodshot yellowish-white eyes with many red veins.
almost 24 hours since his shave, the brown hairs of his beard and stash were already sprouting again. Evvin Eavz rubbed his neck and felt the area was very ruf. finally he reached the way, that was paved with white concrete, connecting the sidewawk to the stairs of his small home. today as he lookd at the familiar steps, by the door, he realized that when he would be old those steps would be difficult to climb. but who thinks about that when buying a home?
he thout about his five kids. their names were: Enriq, Allix, viki, zoe, and qali. each name he had discussed with his wife wanda, who had kept her family name wafbirg, instead of joining the eavz family. they had each suggested names and the other had rejected them. each wanted the name that they chose.
the only solution would be to choose a third name so neither "won". they had rolled a die which showed five for the fifth letter. and rolled again to know which group of letters in the alphabet. when the die showed one dot pip they each started to write five names that begin with the fifth letter of the first group of letters: e. his list of names differd from hers despite the limitation that they used the same letter. neither could think of five.
his list was: ed, eric, enriq, and eugene. her list was: ethan*, erik, evvin junior, and enriq. evvin opposed ethan as too common and felt evvin junior was just a jab at him for not accepting her name-suggestions. the only names that agreed were erik and enriq, except the spelling of erik. so he said "look we both wrote enriq" she said "but its my idea--yes and i agree". so their eldest son was named enriq.
all this he recald as he walked along the way. he grabd the black railing and hauld his tired body up the two low stairs. each stair was only two-thirds the height of common normal stairs. the door that he faced was a tall and wide mesh of net of screen to keep the bugs from flying inside. it was lokd as he had instructed the brats. he smiled at his luck to "get obedient" kids who lokd the door. he inserted and turnd the key once and twice... but could not turn the second time. oof those brats... he had told them to "always turn the lock twice". how could they be so lazy and even disobey just for such a small difference.
a big gain can tempt a person to violate rules but who would steal from a shop just for something that had a small price. breaking principles for a small gain seemd worse kuz they could buy for a small price and for that small diffference they were breaking the ethics. for what small temptation and gain??
he enterd the home and wawked toward the kids who sat on the soft sofa quietly reading books. this old fashioned family would keep the classic enjoyment. after skool the kids could read a book that they chose and borrowed from the library.
large photos of paintings surrounded the small room, that had only one dark brown sofa. no other furniture. it was long enuf for the older kids and younger kids to sit. the youngest dawter "qali" was in the "playpen" like a small netted prison so she would not wander around and fall down steps.
qali had already started to walk. now she sat in the pen with her toys looking at them and putting them in her mouth. seemingly she enjoyd the touch of the wood blocks and plastic rings on her tongue. she could not be enjoying the tastelessness. yet she kept jamming different blocks into her mouth. trying to taste the different colors.
the two oldest kids, enriq and allix were reading adventure books. they fild two thirds of the sofa. the two younger kids fit on the third cushion. vikki was reading a book with very few pictures and zoe lookd at a book almost entirely pictures.
the home was so relaxd and quiet. no loud shouting from running brats and no loud noise from a television as common in other families. even no sound from the radio.
PART TWO in the sitting room
evvin said the required "hi kids" and the brats did not respond. had they not even heard him? but he must say it or they would feel he ignored them.
he approached the youngest reader named zoe. he lay his hand on her dark brown hair. she lookd up and smiled but just as quikly lookd down to see more pictures and read the words of the story. he could see it was about a pet dog, in the many pictures.
next he lay his hand on viki, and she protested, almost yeld "stop that". but he knew he must show them that he was not ignoring them. the older brats enriq and allix turnd breifly to glare at viki but she did not see their angry eyes as she returnd to her book about a fantasy world.
so they glared at him for causing the disturbance... again... they glared with a look that said "dont do this every night". so he wisperd "sorry" but not sorry at all. he would do it again tmoro so his kids would know he did not ignore them.
over the sofa was a large map of the world. in its center were the land masses: the nile continent and ural contin-ent surrounded by dark green water to symbolize the sea. this map was unique because the LENGTH of each country was the TRUE length, [in proportion to the ball] for example the country called russia was the true length along the top of the ball, from the sea called baltic until the pacific coast, that was west of the peninsula. this was important to evvin kuz 2 helicopters flying east from the same line of longitude, for example 32 longitude near the edj of baltic sea, one in north by that sea and another south near the nile river, each flying east at the same speed for same time, would reach pacific coast different times kus the north one went along the smaller length at the north top of the ball. no maps botherd to be accurate about length. when he finally found one, he was so excited that he bought and framed it in a bright red frame. that map, over the sofa was now behind him as he passd thru a small wiit door.
the map printer was careful that no "country" should be the name of any sea, but this was not important to evvin. just the true length. the sea was named with the common four names 1 arctic, north of the ural continent. atlantic, to east of amazon river, brahmaputra, south of the ural continent, and pacific", east of the ural continent. however, the name arctic was small inside parantheses, but in big letters was the name yenisei, same as the longest river that feeds that ocean. similarly, the name atlantic was small inside parantheses, the name in big letters was amazon ocean, kuz the same name as the long river that fed it.
the name brahmaputra rejected a country-name because the ocean must be shared. any ocean is not the ocean of any one country. this river was longer than each tigris and euphrates and was fed by some of the ganges river before pouring into a wide "gulf" that had no narrow neck to the ocean, similar to gulf of mississippi, that is south and around cuba. this gulf was wide relative to its size in contrast to bay of california to east of baja the mexico peninsula, that is long relativ to its size same as chesapeak or red bay that is east of egypt.
similarly, the name pacific was small inside parantheses but the name "chang" ocean was near the chang river that westerners called yangtze river, that was the longest river in the region and pours into the chang ocean. evvin wonderd what was the difference between a bay and a gulf. some foolish people had named gulf for both the wide water around cuba and the narrow water east of baja so this must be fixd.
behind him the reading room was 4 yards long and barely two yards wide. a lone small window was in each of the two outer walls. the map was beside one small window that had a curtain with wirls of rainbow colors. the second window was centerd in the space between the edj of the door and the corner. the was no television in this home. and no table for a radio in the reading room.
to his riit were narrow stairs upward to the upper level. there two bed rooms and two shower rooms with toilets, filled the small upper level over the reading room and kijjin. he thout that his wife wanda was up there in the room on the right side of the steps. he felt sad that he had the smaller room but when zoe was born they had needed to switch sides swapping the larger room for enriq, allix and viki.
he enterd the small kijjen and grabbed a giant pot. he filled it with water and lay it on the stove. he turnd the knob for the gas fuel. as the gas came up a spark lit the gas becoming a flame. much more convenient than the past when there were two buttons, a second for the spark which often did not ignite the gas anyway. the easy life of modern times.
as the water heated in the coverd pot he pulld the fresh chicken chests from his shoulder bag. he rinsd them and cut the chicken into small chunks. his mind was not on the work. he was thinking about the TREASURE map. he tossed the chunks of chikken into the boiling water and made effort to notice the time. as the water boild the chicken, he tossed spices inside. then he quickly peald and tossd whole onions in. next he cut many potatoes and carrots and splashed them into the pot. last he grabbed a bag of pasta and dumped that into the same pot. the flame would do all the work for feeding his family. while he thout about the treasure map and the gold treasure.
PART THREE
what would he do, if he had a treasure? evvin askd himself as he sat in the quiet kitchen to watch the pot. he would prefer searate bedrooms for the sons from dawters. but they had bought the small house before they knew they would have five kids. anyway they could not buy a large house. but truly if he had a treasure to sell he could sell the gold and buy a home so large that each of the five kids could have a private room.
his wife wanda worked in the management of a hospital. her salary was the source of the payment for the mortgage debt. his salary was pitiful from his technician job. he would go from hospital to hospital testing and maintaining the electronic medical devices.
he wished he was in construction building the new shopping centers, according to the plans of rich architects who did not see the situation on the ground.
only the rich could afford college which caused them to have huge salaries and grow richer but the sad part was they did not need the HUGE salary kuz even before the job their families were rich... so rich that they were rich enuf to pay for college... and almost endless luxuries.
the poor were the ones that needed the large salary but we poor, he concluded, could not wait four years for the training for the fancy jobs nor pay for college. what a terrible system. the poor were doomed to stay poor and get poorer as the few rich grew richer.
but the treasure gave him hope.
his frend from childhood had sent him the tresure map by registerd mail. evvin did not know how his ex-girlfrend gemma had found the map. he was delighted that she wanted to include him in the adventure of finding the treshir.
gemma had been his girlfrend wen he was in ninth grade. she was then in seventh grade. they continued the frendship until the winter when he was a senior, in twelfth grade. she wanted "someone better". she followed a guy named jayden who was "too cool" for anybody but still enjoyed that she chased him. after much asking he finally swapd his girlfreind named lezli. and started meeting gemma regularly. soon he was calling her "his gem" as evvin grit his teeth jealously.
evvin had written a poem to show his frustration. by the way poems "must" rhyme or they lack skill. try writing a poetic message while limiting yourself to words that rhyme... that is skill.
in a storm of jealousy and sadness and frustration evvin had written a poem about "felma". he chose the name kuz it sounded similar to wilma but had the letters like female. it could rhyme with the name thelma too.
as a jealous exboyfrend he had watched his closest frend clamber for jaydens affection... and win it as she "threw herself at him" just because people thout that jayden was cool. she would smother jayden with kisses as he smiled as the winner of a trophy... as evvin watched teeth clenched in frustration, powerless about his ex-girlfrend, the emotions motivated him to pour his emotions into words, so evvin had written:
"i miss you felma. why did you leave?
i feel so lonely this christmas eve.
i see you with that obese daryl.
grossly fat. a huge barrel.
i feel his skin thru your fingertips.
i feel his lips wen i see you kiss.
i feel my heart is between your teeth,
cut by incisors at each heart beat.
this poem had the painful description similar to the idea that was already in the song "obssessed by dynoro"but this was different style of rhyme and rythm. the idea was slightly different too. he could call it "inspired" by that song.
evvin was obviously from a poor family. no girls threw themselves at him, when they saw his simple clothing. he thout about becoming gay... since he cant get a girl but that specific action was physicly dirty. and for that reason in his eyes bad even gross. he felt that they had an illness same as those who enjoy jumping inside dirty soiled garbage bins... with waste stuck on the sides, no healthy person would enjoy that... that showed an illness in the mind that needed medicine but nobody would allow him to voice such opinions. only the gay had free speech instead of the thinkers.
not gay guy wanted to be his frend either.
there was one girl that enjoyed talking to him but she said she would never bother with any boyfrend. she just wanted to talk. since he was lonely he did not have any other option so he listened to her talk about life and emotions.
he showed her his poem and she could not see any difference between it and the song obsessed dynoro, but the rhyme and words were different.
years had passed until he met wanda. but that is a different story... evvin interrupted his memories to stir the vejdables and chikken.
evvin wonderd why had gemma sent him the map? he would get a chance to spend time with the one person that he loved and still loved... gemma. he had analyzed the map each night. trying to decypher the places. all his free time was on this mission. each time he made an increment of advance in understanding, he had written a message by electronic mail to gemma. she always replied the same day with encouragement and more information that was relavant to his ideas.
he felt that she understood him. and better than his wife wanda.
in contrast when he talkd to wanda, her responses had almost no connection to the topics he was saying. as if she heard different words in a schyzophrenic halucination and was responding to those words, instead of the words that he said.
she almost never understood him. he realized too late that he was mistaken to marry wanda but now he would simply tolerate her and not talk. he did not regret marrying her kuz he could not get the one girl that he loved, named gemma, who had been his girlfrend for a long time. nor could he find any other girl. they all saw that he lacked the money to buy them expensive presents and prefferd those that were able to buy them fancy presents... they could marry them and "buy stuff without even thinking about any budget" and best yet... if there was a divorce they would get a portion of the wealth... which girl would not be tempted by that?
evvin wanted to think more about solving the mystery of the treasure... but it was time to take the pot from the fire.
he checked and saw the food was ready and then sent a wutsapp message to the family watsapp group. he listend from the kitchen as the cellular phones of his kids beepd almost at the same time in the sitting room.
enriq wrote back "i ate too much today. i feel stufd". allix wrote back shorter message with picture: "not hungry" using the image of a rope knotted for the word "not". evvin opened his eyes wide in surprise as he saw that one.
similarly viki wrote "i wanna read". only zoe wrote back she was "coming in a minit" spelling words as they sound. should he tell her it was wrong? actualy "minit" seemd more precise and even univeral. anybody in any country would know the meaning instead of the sound of "minute" and traditional spelling. he did not bother to correct her that minute is speld with a u. also that word minute "described things" as an adjective.
last he noticed that wanda had not responded. perhaps she did not hear the beep.
he grabbed a brown boal and using a ladle put some chikken and vejdables inside for zoe. he lay it on the blue mat that zoe had made. she had cut shapes in wiit paper and lay it on blue paper then it was slipd into a plastic cover. a spoon and fork already lay on the mat. he noticed only zoe had prepared her place. she had even added a small sign. it had her name "zoe" and was hanging from green wool yarn from the chair, on paper. the yarn was runnning thru the holes [for the rings in a binder].
evvin climbed the narrow steps but felt pain in his riit knee. some days his left knee aikd.
surprisingly he thout "i wish i were with gemma' the same time that he enterd the room for himself and wife wanda.
the room was too quiet. not even a sound of breathing. "sweety" he whisperd not wanting to startle her from her sleep. last time he woke her by saying "wanda" instead of whisper and she had exploded that he had startled her and that was a bad manner to wake anybody... full of accusations over tiny issues.
so he adjusted himself to whisper, as he adjusted many things, to keep the family "together". no response. he did not want to switch on the light for her critical response would be the same. so evvin pressd the button on the phone to shine the dim liit of the screen on the bed where his wife slept... and saw that the covers were neat and the bed was empty... except a note.
now he switched on the liit. he read the note. "i have always wanted to leave you. i regret that my parents pressured me into marrying you. you dont even deserve for me to tell you except this note. i am not lost nor at any hospital i am simply leaving to search for the real me."
evvin collapsed on that bed, no longer his wifes bed, and sobbed... less for his wife leaving, but more for the loneliness... his whole life was empty and had always been empty.
after a few minutes of sobbing zoe was at the door and asked "pa, please serve me some more".
he swallowed his strong emotions and pretended to smile at zoe.
"certainly sweety. you must eat enuf to grow tall like your brothers"
zoe shot back in the tone of a teenager "i dont wanna be like dumb enriq. and dont call me sweety".
that surprised him so much that he finally genuinely smiled for the first time since thinking about the treasure.
to be continued.
Tuesday, January 14, 2020
treshir part one gold treasure
PART ONE the treasure map
Evvin stepd down from a bus. he wawkd along the paved sidewawk. he had liit brown hair that was combed to his riit. he had short bangs that were hanging over his narrow forehead. his eyes were dull brown. his nose was smaller than average. his pale lips almost blended into the pale skin where he shaved his mustash every evening. the red had left his lips and seemd to have traveld upward to his bloodshot yellowish-white eyes with many red veins.
almost 24 hours since his shave, the brown hairs of his beard and stash were already sprouting again. evvin Eavz rubbed his neck and felt the area was very ruf. finally he reached the way, that was paved with white concrete, connecting the sidewalk to the steps of his small home. today as he lookd at the familiar steps, by the door, he realized that when he would be old those steps would be difficult to climb. but who thinks about that when buying a home?
he thout about his five kids. their names were: Enriq, Allix, viki, zoe, and qali.
each name he had discussed with his wife wanda, who had kept her family name wafbirg, instead of joining the eavz family.
they had each suggested names and the other had rejected them wanting a name that they chose.
the only solution would be to choose a third name so neither "won". they had rolled a die which showed five for the fifth letter. and rolled again to know which group of letters in the alphabet. when the die showed one dot pip they each wrote five names that started with the fifth letter of the first group of letters. e. his list of names differd from hers despite the limitation that they used the same letter. neither could think of five.
his list was ed, eric, enriq, and eugene. her list was ethan*, erik, evvin junior, and enriq. evvin opposed ethan as too common and felt evvin junior was just a jab at him for not accepting her name-suggestions. the only names that agreed were erik and enriq. so he said "look we both wrote enriq" she said "but its my idea--yes and i agree". so their eldest son was named enriq.
all this he recalld as he walked along the way. he grabd the railing and hauld his tired body up the two low stairs. each ws only two-thirds the height of common normal stairs. the door that he faced was a tall and wide mesh of net of screen to keep the bugs from flying inside. it was lokd as he had instructed the brats. he smiled at his luck to "get obedient" kids that lokd the door as he inserted and turnd the key once and twice... but could not turn the second time. oof those brats... he had told them to "always turn the lock twice". how could they be so lazy and even disobey just for such a small difference.
for a big gain it was tempting to break rules but who would steal from a shop just for something that had a small price. breaking principles for a small gain seemd worse kuz they could buy for a small price and for that small diffference they were breaking the ethics. for what small temptation and gain??
the kids sat on the soft sofa quietly reading books. this old fashioned family would keep the classic enjoyment. after skool the kids could read a book tht they chose from the library.
he enterd the home.
on his riit side was the small room with one dark brown sofa. it was long enuf for the older kids and younger kids to sit. the youngest dawter "qali" was in the "playpen" like a small prison so she would not wander around and fall down steps.
qali had already started to walk. now she sat in the pen with her toys looking at them and putting them all in her mouth. seemingly she enjoyd the touch of the wood blocks and plastic rings on her tongue. she could not be enjoying the tastelessness. yet she kept jamming different blocks into her mouth. trying to taste the different colors.
the two oldest kids, enriq and allix were reading adventure books. they fild two thirds of the sofa. the two younger kids fit on the third cushion. vikki was reading a book with very few pictures and zoe lookd at a book almost entirely pictures.
the home was so relaxd and quiet. no loud shouting from running brats and no loud noise from the television as common in other families. even no sound from the radio.
almost 24 hours since his shave, the brown hairs of his beard and stash were already sprouting again. evvin Eavz rubbed his neck and felt the area was very ruf. finally he reached the way, that was paved with white concrete, connecting the sidewalk to the steps of his small home. today as he lookd at the familiar steps, by the door, he realized that when he would be old those steps would be difficult to climb. but who thinks about that when buying a home?
he thout about his five kids. their names were: Enriq, Allix, viki, zoe, and qali.
each name he had discussed with his wife wanda, who had kept her family name wafbirg, instead of joining the eavz family.
they had each suggested names and the other had rejected them wanting a name that they chose.
the only solution would be to choose a third name so neither "won". they had rolled a die which showed five for the fifth letter. and rolled again to know which group of letters in the alphabet. when the die showed one dot pip they each wrote five names that started with the fifth letter of the first group of letters. e. his list of names differd from hers despite the limitation that they used the same letter. neither could think of five.
his list was ed, eric, enriq, and eugene. her list was ethan*, erik, evvin junior, and enriq. evvin opposed ethan as too common and felt evvin junior was just a jab at him for not accepting her name-suggestions. the only names that agreed were erik and enriq. so he said "look we both wrote enriq" she said "but its my idea--yes and i agree". so their eldest son was named enriq.
all this he recalld as he walked along the way. he grabd the railing and hauld his tired body up the two low stairs. each ws only two-thirds the height of common normal stairs. the door that he faced was a tall and wide mesh of net of screen to keep the bugs from flying inside. it was lokd as he had instructed the brats. he smiled at his luck to "get obedient" kids that lokd the door as he inserted and turnd the key once and twice... but could not turn the second time. oof those brats... he had told them to "always turn the lock twice". how could they be so lazy and even disobey just for such a small difference.
for a big gain it was tempting to break rules but who would steal from a shop just for something that had a small price. breaking principles for a small gain seemd worse kuz they could buy for a small price and for that small diffference they were breaking the ethics. for what small temptation and gain??
the kids sat on the soft sofa quietly reading books. this old fashioned family would keep the classic enjoyment. after skool the kids could read a book tht they chose from the library.
he enterd the home.
on his riit side was the small room with one dark brown sofa. it was long enuf for the older kids and younger kids to sit. the youngest dawter "qali" was in the "playpen" like a small prison so she would not wander around and fall down steps.
qali had already started to walk. now she sat in the pen with her toys looking at them and putting them all in her mouth. seemingly she enjoyd the touch of the wood blocks and plastic rings on her tongue. she could not be enjoying the tastelessness. yet she kept jamming different blocks into her mouth. trying to taste the different colors.
the two oldest kids, enriq and allix were reading adventure books. they fild two thirds of the sofa. the two younger kids fit on the third cushion. vikki was reading a book with very few pictures and zoe lookd at a book almost entirely pictures.
the home was so relaxd and quiet. no loud shouting from running brats and no loud noise from the television as common in other families. even no sound from the radio.
PART TWO in the sitting room
evvin said the required "hi kids" and the brats did not respond. could it be they did not even hear him? but he must say it or they would feel he ignored them.
he approached the youngest reader named zoe. he lay his hand on her brown hair. she lookd up and smiled but just as quikly lookd down to see more pictures and reaad the words of the story. he could see it was about a pet dog in the many pictures.
next he lay his hand on viki, and she almost yeld "stop that". but he knew he must show them that he was not ignoring them despite the protest. the older brats enriq and allix turnd breifly to glare at viki but she did not see their angry eyes as she returnd to her book about a fantasy world.
so they glared at him for causing the disturbance... again... they glared with a look that said "dont do this every night". so he whisperd "sorry" but not sorry at all. he would do it again tmoro so his kids would know he did not ignore them. over the sofa was a large map of the world centerd with the land mass of the nile continent and ural continent. this map was unique because the LENGTH of each country was the TRUE length along the top of the ball. for example the country called russia was the true length across from the sea called baltic until the pacific coast that was west of the peninsula. this was important to evvin kuz 2 helicopters flying east from the same line of longitude, for example 32 longitude near the edj of baltic sea one in north by that sea and another south near the nile river, each flying east at the same speed for same time, would reach pacific coast different times kus the north one went along the smaller length at the north top of the ball. no maps botherd to be accurate about length. when he finally found one, he was so excited that he bought and framed it in a bright red frame. that map was now behind him as he passd thru a small wiit door.
evvin said the required "hi kids" and the brats did not respond. could it be they did not even hear him? but he must say it or they would feel he ignored them.
he approached the youngest reader named zoe. he lay his hand on her brown hair. she lookd up and smiled but just as quikly lookd down to see more pictures and reaad the words of the story. he could see it was about a pet dog in the many pictures.
next he lay his hand on viki, and she almost yeld "stop that". but he knew he must show them that he was not ignoring them despite the protest. the older brats enriq and allix turnd breifly to glare at viki but she did not see their angry eyes as she returnd to her book about a fantasy world.
so they glared at him for causing the disturbance... again... they glared with a look that said "dont do this every night". so he whisperd "sorry" but not sorry at all. he would do it again tmoro so his kids would know he did not ignore them. over the sofa was a large map of the world centerd with the land mass of the nile continent and ural continent. this map was unique because the LENGTH of each country was the TRUE length along the top of the ball. for example the country called russia was the true length across from the sea called baltic until the pacific coast that was west of the peninsula. this was important to evvin kuz 2 helicopters flying east from the same line of longitude, for example 32 longitude near the edj of baltic sea one in north by that sea and another south near the nile river, each flying east at the same speed for same time, would reach pacific coast different times kus the north one went along the smaller length at the north top of the ball. no maps botherd to be accurate about length. when he finally found one, he was so excited that he bought and framed it in a bright red frame. that map was now behind him as he passd thru a small wiit door.
the map printer was careful that no "country" should be the name of any sea, but this was not important to evvin just the true length
behind him the reading room was barely two meters wide and around four meters long. a lone small window was in each of the two outer walls. the map was beside one small window that had a colorful curtain with wirls of rainbow colors. the second window was centerd in the space between the edj of the door and the corner.
to his riit narrow stairs upward to the upper level. there two bed rooms and two shower rooms with toilets, filled the small upper level. he thout that his wife wanda was up there in the room on the right side of the steps. he felt sad that he had the smaller room but with five kids they had needed to switch sides swapping the larger room for the four kids and the smaller room for himself and wanda and baby qali.
he enterd the small kijjen and grabbed a pot. he filled it with water and lay it on the stove. he turnd the knob for the gas fuel. as the gas came up a spark lit the gas becoming a flame. so much more convenient than the past when there were two buttons or he woulda needed a match to ignite the gas. the easy life of modern times.
as the water heated in the coverd pot he pulld the fresh chicken chests from his shoulder bag. he rinsd them and cut the chicken into small chunks. his mind was not on the woork. he was thinking about the TREASURE map. he tossed the chunks of chikken into the boiling water and made effort to notice the time. as the water boild the chicked he tossed spices inside. then he quickly peald and cut many potatoes and carrots and splashed them into the large pot.
he grabbed a bag of pasta and dumped that into the same pot. the flame would do all the work. while he thout about the treasure map and the gold treasure.
behind him the reading room was barely two meters wide and around four meters long. a lone small window was in each of the two outer walls. the map was beside one small window that had a colorful curtain with wirls of rainbow colors. the second window was centerd in the space between the edj of the door and the corner.
to his riit narrow stairs upward to the upper level. there two bed rooms and two shower rooms with toilets, filled the small upper level. he thout that his wife wanda was up there in the room on the right side of the steps. he felt sad that he had the smaller room but with five kids they had needed to switch sides swapping the larger room for the four kids and the smaller room for himself and wanda and baby qali.
he enterd the small kijjen and grabbed a pot. he filled it with water and lay it on the stove. he turnd the knob for the gas fuel. as the gas came up a spark lit the gas becoming a flame. so much more convenient than the past when there were two buttons or he woulda needed a match to ignite the gas. the easy life of modern times.
as the water heated in the coverd pot he pulld the fresh chicken chests from his shoulder bag. he rinsd them and cut the chicken into small chunks. his mind was not on the woork. he was thinking about the TREASURE map. he tossed the chunks of chikken into the boiling water and made effort to notice the time. as the water boild the chicked he tossed spices inside. then he quickly peald and cut many potatoes and carrots and splashed them into the large pot.
he grabbed a bag of pasta and dumped that into the same pot. the flame would do all the work. while he thout about the treasure map and the gold treasure.
PART THREE
what would he do if he had a treasure? he askd himself as he sat in the quiet kitchen to watch the pot for feeding his family. he would prefer searate bedrooms for the sons from dawters. but they had bought the small house before they knew they would have five kids. anyway they could not buy a large house. but truly if he had a treasure to sell he could sell the gold and buy a home so large that each of the five kids could have a private room.
his wife wanda worked in the management of a hospital. her salary was the source of the payment for the mortgage debt. his salary was pitiful from his construction job. building the new shopping centers according to the plans of rich architects who did not see the situation on the ground. evvin workd alongside plumbers and electricians that all earned more than him. only the rich could afford college and become rich architects but they did not need the HUGE salary kuz even before the job their families were rich enuf to pay for college and almost endless luxuries. irt was the poor that needed the large salary but we poor, he concluded, could not wait for the training for the fancy jobs. what a terrible system. the poor were doomed to stay poor and get poorer as the few rich grew richer.
but the treasure gave him hope.
his frend from childhood had sent him the tresure map by registerd mail. evvin did not know how his ex-girlfrend gemma had found the map. he was delighted that she wanted to include him in the adventure of fiding the treasure. her invitation mentioned and referenced the video of "tad" who same as he also started as a construction worker before going on an advnture to find the amulets of midas the gold legend. however he had chosen construction long before that video was first published.
gemma had been his girlfrend in ninth grade. they continued the frendship for three years, until she wanted "someone better". she followed a guy named jayden who was "too cool" for anybody but enjoyed that she chased him. after much asking he finally swapd his girlfreind named lezli. and started meeting gemma regularly. soon he was calling her "his gem" as evvin grit his teeth jealously.
he had written a poem to show his frustration. by the way poems "must" rhyme or they lack skill. try writing a poetic message while limiting yourself to words that rhyme... that is skill.
in a storm of jealousy and sadness and frustration evvin had written a poem about "felma". he chose the name kuz it sounded similar to wilma bt had the letters like female. it could rhyme with the name thelma too.
as a jealous exboyfrend he had watched his closest frend clamber for jaydens affection... and win it as she "threw herself at him" just because people thout that jayden was cool. she would smother jayden with kisses as he smiled as the winner of a trophy... as evvin watched teeth clenched in frustration, powerless about his ex-girlfrend, the emotions motivated him to pour his emotions into words, so evvin had written:
"i miss you felma. why did you leave?
i feel so lonely this christmas eve.
i see you with that obese daryl.
grossly fat. a huge barrel.
what would he do if he had a treasure? he askd himself as he sat in the quiet kitchen to watch the pot for feeding his family. he would prefer searate bedrooms for the sons from dawters. but they had bought the small house before they knew they would have five kids. anyway they could not buy a large house. but truly if he had a treasure to sell he could sell the gold and buy a home so large that each of the five kids could have a private room.
his wife wanda worked in the management of a hospital. her salary was the source of the payment for the mortgage debt. his salary was pitiful from his construction job. building the new shopping centers according to the plans of rich architects who did not see the situation on the ground. evvin workd alongside plumbers and electricians that all earned more than him. only the rich could afford college and become rich architects but they did not need the HUGE salary kuz even before the job their families were rich enuf to pay for college and almost endless luxuries. irt was the poor that needed the large salary but we poor, he concluded, could not wait for the training for the fancy jobs. what a terrible system. the poor were doomed to stay poor and get poorer as the few rich grew richer.
but the treasure gave him hope.
his frend from childhood had sent him the tresure map by registerd mail. evvin did not know how his ex-girlfrend gemma had found the map. he was delighted that she wanted to include him in the adventure of fiding the treasure. her invitation mentioned and referenced the video of "tad" who same as he also started as a construction worker before going on an advnture to find the amulets of midas the gold legend. however he had chosen construction long before that video was first published.
gemma had been his girlfrend in ninth grade. they continued the frendship for three years, until she wanted "someone better". she followed a guy named jayden who was "too cool" for anybody but enjoyed that she chased him. after much asking he finally swapd his girlfreind named lezli. and started meeting gemma regularly. soon he was calling her "his gem" as evvin grit his teeth jealously.
he had written a poem to show his frustration. by the way poems "must" rhyme or they lack skill. try writing a poetic message while limiting yourself to words that rhyme... that is skill.
in a storm of jealousy and sadness and frustration evvin had written a poem about "felma". he chose the name kuz it sounded similar to wilma bt had the letters like female. it could rhyme with the name thelma too.
as a jealous exboyfrend he had watched his closest frend clamber for jaydens affection... and win it as she "threw herself at him" just because people thout that jayden was cool. she would smother jayden with kisses as he smiled as the winner of a trophy... as evvin watched teeth clenched in frustration, powerless about his ex-girlfrend, the emotions motivated him to pour his emotions into words, so evvin had written:
"i miss you felma. why did you leave?
i feel so lonely this christmas eve.
i see you with that obese daryl.
grossly fat. a huge barrel.
i feel his skin thru your fingertips.
i feel his lips wen i see you kiss.
i feel my heart is between your teeth,
cut by incisors at each heart beat.
yes a similar idea was already in the song "obssessed by dynoro"but this was different style of rhyme and rythm. the idea was slightly different too. he could call it "inspired" by that song.
evvin was obviously from a poor family. no girls threw themselves at him. he thout about becoming gay... since he cant get a girl but that specific action was physicly dirty. and for that reason in his eyes bad even gross. he felt that they had an illness to enjoy jumping in dirty soiled garbage bins... with waste stuck on the sides, no healthy person would enjoy that... that showed an illness in the mind that needed medicine but nobody would allow him to voice such opinions. only the gay had free speech not the thinkers.
not that any gay guy wanted to be his frend either.
there was one girl that enjoyed talking to him but she said she would never bother with any boyfrend. she just wanted to talk. since he was lonely he did not have any other option so he listened to her talk about life and emotions.
he showed her his poem and she could not see any difference between it and the song obsessed dynoro, but the rhyme and wrds were different.
years had passed until he met wanda. but that is a different story... evvin interrupted his memories to stir the vejdables and chikken.
why ahd gemma sent him the map? she was the archeologist. maybe she chose a construction worker hoping to do the "tad" adventure.
he had analyzed the map each night. trying to decypher the places. all his free time was on this mission. each time he made an increment of advance in understanding, he had written a message by electronic mail to her, to gemma. she always replied the same day with encouragement and more information that was relavant to his ideas.
he felt that she understood him. and better than his wife wanda. her responses had almost no connection to the topics he was saying as if she heard different words in a schyzophrenic halucination and was responding to those words instead of the words that he said.
she almost never understood him. he regretted marrying wanda but he could not get the one girl that he loved, named gemma, who had been his girlfrend for sevral years nor could he find any other girl. they all saw that he lacked the money to buy them expensive presents and prefferd those that were able to buy them fancy presents... they could marry them and "buy stuff without even thinking about any budget" and best yet... if there was a divorce they would get a portion of the wealth... which girl would not be tempted by that?
evvin wanted to think more about solving the mystery of the treasure... but it was time to take the pot from the fire.
he checked the food was ready and then sent a watsapp message to the family watsapp group. he listend from the kitchen as the cellular phones of his kids beepd almost at the same time in the sitting room.
enriq wrote back "i ate too much today. i feel stuffed". allix wrote back shorter message "not hungry" and he had used the image of a rope knotted for the word "not" evvin opened his eyes wide in surprise as he saw that one.
similarly viki wrote "i wanna read". only zoe wrote back she was coming "in a minit" spelling words as they sound which seemd more precise than the traditional spelling so he did not bother to correct her that minute is speld with a u.
after all that word minute "described things" as an adjective.
last he noticed that wanda had not responded. perhaps she did not hear the beep.
he grabbed a bowl and using a ladle put some chikken and vejdables inside for zoe.
he lay it on the table. and walked to the narrow steps upwards.
he climbed the steps but felt pain in his knees.
some days his left knee ached more but now his riit knee ached more.
he was far from the ability from young tad the explorer in the animated video. yet he would get a chance to spend time with the one person that he loved and still loved... gemma.
surprisingly he thout this thout in irony as he ended the room for himself and wife wanda.
the room was too quiet. not even a sound of breathing. "sweety" he whisperd not wanting to startle her from her sleep. last time he woke her by saying "wanda" instead of whisper and she had exploded that he had startled her and that was a bad manner to wake anybody... full of accusations over tiny issues.
so he adjusted himself to whisper, but no response. he did not want to switch on the light for her critical response would be the same.
so evvin pressd the button on the phone to shine the dim liit of the screen on the bed where his wife slept... and saw that the covers were neat and the bed was empty... except a note.
now he switched on the liit. he read the note. "i have always wanted to leave you. i regret that my parents pressured me into marrying you. you dont even deserve for me to tell you except this note. i am not lost nor at any hospital i am simply leaving to search for the real me."
evvin collapsed on that bed, no longer his wifes bed, and sobbed... less for his wife leaving but more for the loneliness... his whole life was empty and had always been empty.
after a few minutes of sobbing zoe was at the door and asked "pa, please serve me some more".
he swallowed his strong emotions and pretended to smile at zoe.
"certainly sweety. you must eat enuf to grow tall like your brothers"
zoe shot back in the tone of a teenager "i dont wanna be like dumb enriq. and told call me sweety".
that surprised him so much that he finally genuinely smiled for the first time since thinking about the treasure.
to be continued.
i feel his lips wen i see you kiss.
i feel my heart is between your teeth,
cut by incisors at each heart beat.
yes a similar idea was already in the song "obssessed by dynoro"but this was different style of rhyme and rythm. the idea was slightly different too. he could call it "inspired" by that song.
evvin was obviously from a poor family. no girls threw themselves at him. he thout about becoming gay... since he cant get a girl but that specific action was physicly dirty. and for that reason in his eyes bad even gross. he felt that they had an illness to enjoy jumping in dirty soiled garbage bins... with waste stuck on the sides, no healthy person would enjoy that... that showed an illness in the mind that needed medicine but nobody would allow him to voice such opinions. only the gay had free speech not the thinkers.
not that any gay guy wanted to be his frend either.
there was one girl that enjoyed talking to him but she said she would never bother with any boyfrend. she just wanted to talk. since he was lonely he did not have any other option so he listened to her talk about life and emotions.
he showed her his poem and she could not see any difference between it and the song obsessed dynoro, but the rhyme and wrds were different.
years had passed until he met wanda. but that is a different story... evvin interrupted his memories to stir the vejdables and chikken.
why ahd gemma sent him the map? she was the archeologist. maybe she chose a construction worker hoping to do the "tad" adventure.
he had analyzed the map each night. trying to decypher the places. all his free time was on this mission. each time he made an increment of advance in understanding, he had written a message by electronic mail to her, to gemma. she always replied the same day with encouragement and more information that was relavant to his ideas.
he felt that she understood him. and better than his wife wanda. her responses had almost no connection to the topics he was saying as if she heard different words in a schyzophrenic halucination and was responding to those words instead of the words that he said.
she almost never understood him. he regretted marrying wanda but he could not get the one girl that he loved, named gemma, who had been his girlfrend for sevral years nor could he find any other girl. they all saw that he lacked the money to buy them expensive presents and prefferd those that were able to buy them fancy presents... they could marry them and "buy stuff without even thinking about any budget" and best yet... if there was a divorce they would get a portion of the wealth... which girl would not be tempted by that?
evvin wanted to think more about solving the mystery of the treasure... but it was time to take the pot from the fire.
he checked the food was ready and then sent a watsapp message to the family watsapp group. he listend from the kitchen as the cellular phones of his kids beepd almost at the same time in the sitting room.
enriq wrote back "i ate too much today. i feel stuffed". allix wrote back shorter message "not hungry" and he had used the image of a rope knotted for the word "not" evvin opened his eyes wide in surprise as he saw that one.
similarly viki wrote "i wanna read". only zoe wrote back she was coming "in a minit" spelling words as they sound which seemd more precise than the traditional spelling so he did not bother to correct her that minute is speld with a u.
after all that word minute "described things" as an adjective.
last he noticed that wanda had not responded. perhaps she did not hear the beep.
he grabbed a bowl and using a ladle put some chikken and vejdables inside for zoe.
he lay it on the table. and walked to the narrow steps upwards.
he climbed the steps but felt pain in his knees.
some days his left knee ached more but now his riit knee ached more.
he was far from the ability from young tad the explorer in the animated video. yet he would get a chance to spend time with the one person that he loved and still loved... gemma.
surprisingly he thout this thout in irony as he ended the room for himself and wife wanda.
the room was too quiet. not even a sound of breathing. "sweety" he whisperd not wanting to startle her from her sleep. last time he woke her by saying "wanda" instead of whisper and she had exploded that he had startled her and that was a bad manner to wake anybody... full of accusations over tiny issues.
so he adjusted himself to whisper, but no response. he did not want to switch on the light for her critical response would be the same.
so evvin pressd the button on the phone to shine the dim liit of the screen on the bed where his wife slept... and saw that the covers were neat and the bed was empty... except a note.
now he switched on the liit. he read the note. "i have always wanted to leave you. i regret that my parents pressured me into marrying you. you dont even deserve for me to tell you except this note. i am not lost nor at any hospital i am simply leaving to search for the real me."
evvin collapsed on that bed, no longer his wifes bed, and sobbed... less for his wife leaving but more for the loneliness... his whole life was empty and had always been empty.
after a few minutes of sobbing zoe was at the door and asked "pa, please serve me some more".
he swallowed his strong emotions and pretended to smile at zoe.
"certainly sweety. you must eat enuf to grow tall like your brothers"
zoe shot back in the tone of a teenager "i dont wanna be like dumb enriq. and told call me sweety".
that surprised him so much that he finally genuinely smiled for the first time since thinking about the treasure.
to be continued.
Sunday, January 12, 2020
my summary of video "lost in space" 1998
lost in space 1998 video
intro: the tv series had only one animated episode that faild in 1973. reshown in 1980 but nobody invested. see episode summary below for the tv series with 3 seasons.
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my summary of video 1998.
a spy programd a robot to destroy, after launch, the sv. he almost died when his boss fried his devices. he awoke in the doomd sv and tried to stop the robot. it destroyed guidance system. unable to stop the robot, the spy woke the crew: ma pa 2 daughters the pilot and a son named will. son stopd the robot. without guidance they must return home. before they can, they fall toward the sun and cannot escape the effect of sun's mass.
they will burn, unless they use risky technology. it blasts them far away, where they battle and destroy many scary spiders.
they landed on a planet and search for fuel. they see a portal to another time. how will they use the portal to escape this planet? -- new series 2018.
they landed on a planet and search for fuel. they see a portal to another time. how will they use the portal to escape this planet? -- new series 2018.
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ancient series 1965 adventure, summary from "official" synopses
all ideas are from episodes or "official" synopses, of this series, not mine. enjoy the exciting adventures
my summary of "lost in space pilot" 1965
l.s. "no place to hide" was not televised, but several exciting parts were shown in later episodes.
my summary "the sv launched up from earth. it flew until meteors knocked it off course and damaged the navigation causing "lost". they crash and skid on a planet. there they face the dangers of that planet." NOTE: some dangers were included in later episodes. despite the dangers, the story was not adventurous enuf until they added sabotage.
s1e1, reluctant, the "official summary" of this episode differs from the story and the order needs fixing so i fix: "in the future year "1997", a spy sabotaged the space trip. he was the doctor who inspected the family for space travel. he was busy until the door sealed him inside the doomd vehicle. the saucer vehicle, named jupiter two, launches up with the pioneer family. smith "accidently destroys" that means unintentionally, his weight caused the direction to change enuf to hit meteors, that destroy the guidance system. ergo smith woke the pilot to dodge the meteors. the dr. also unplugs the robot to prevent the sabotage, and save himself. don wakes the family to repair the damages. young will, unaware of the programming, "fixd" the robot. it obeys the dr.'s program and damages the ship until they pull the power pack off.
pa exited to fix an external device. he slips a few times until his cord breaks. ma exits and shot a rope toward him but he floated and the rope is too far.... to be continued. +pa grabs the rope. parents try to open the door but a mysteriously hot comet expanded the door. both are trapd outside. they use chemicals to cool the door and don the pilot pulld in the parents.
note: the synopsis from this point is good except for missing the excitement, so see below. smith's guilt is greater than "accident", he tried to intentionally "attempted murder" the family as well as destroy the entire sv. he programd the robot which did damage. also not him but the meteors destroy the guidance... the words seem to say "unintentionaly he only damaged part", the evil is also "after dodging the meteors, smith threatens to shoot the pilot unless he flies back to earth. the pilot named don said "you need me alive to pilot"
summary of episode 2: derelict. alien life pulled j2 into their sv. pa and the pilot [named don] find a star map. smith zapd an alien who chased them back to j2. the forcefield kept the alien away so they successfully escaped.
fixd not only "search".
the saucer crashd into space rocks causing lost in space.
september 1965 s15=month-letters ja
september 1965 s15=month-letters ja
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brief summaries
1,s15, reluctant, in the future year "1997", a spy programd a robot to destroy a space vehicle, after launch. he gets trapd in the doomd sv, due to hiding from security. a family flew the sv up. the robot ruind the guidance system, before they puld its power circuit out, hence they are lost. to be continued...
2,s22, derelict, an alien sv puld their sv named jupiter 2, inside. 2 men find a star map. the spy zapd an alien ergo all flee. with their force field blocking the alien, they fly out.
3>5, island,s29, they flew to the planet on map. from orbit, pa flew down to check if livable. his jet malfunctioned so crashed. pilot landed j2 on surface for searching for pa. they save pa. the cold threatens so they rode south. +a cyclops threw rocks at them until pilot zapd the c'. they rode over frozen sea until heat increased. they hid under shade. +the heat forced them back north. they float over sea and return to j2.
3>5, island,s29, they flew to the planet on map. from orbit, pa flew down to check if livable. his jet malfunctioned so crashed. pilot landed j2 on surface for searching for pa. they save pa. the cold threatens so they rode south. +a cyclops threw rocks at them until pilot zapd the c'. they rode over frozen sea until heat increased. they hid under shade. +the heat forced them back north. they float over sea and return to j2.
6o20, welcome, a lost traveler came. they help repair his sv for explore spacee.
7, o27, my, penny meets and becomes frends with a force. later, the spy accidently injured her. the force caused a storm until she calmed it, after the planet changed.
H8,n3=11\3, inv., aliens came and captured smith. their dangerous plan is taking his brain to replace their guidance system. smith convinced them that the brain from will is better, and promised to deliver it.
I9,11\10 oasis, smith ate fruit that grew him giant. now he can kill the r. family and take the ship. how will they escape his plan before the fruit effect ends?
J10,11\17sky, they meet another family, but the language is different so unable to understand them.
K11,11\24 wish, smith found a device in a vehicle. he gave it to r family so they will trust him. the device grants wishes and soon the r family is very greedy, until the alien owner came to reclaim it.
L12,12\1 raft, they build a small vehicle to send don the pilot home but smith stole it and flew away with will. when landing they see they did not reach earth so he must return will to family.
M13,12\8 one, penny finds a sv containing a dog etc.
I hope I can summarize more later
H8,n3=11\3, inv., aliens came and captured smith. their dangerous plan is taking his brain to replace their guidance system. smith convinced them that the brain from will is better, and promised to deliver it.
I9,11\10 oasis, smith ate fruit that grew him giant. now he can kill the r. family and take the ship. how will they escape his plan before the fruit effect ends?
J10,11\17sky, they meet another family, but the language is different so unable to understand them.
K11,11\24 wish, smith found a device in a vehicle. he gave it to r family so they will trust him. the device grants wishes and soon the r family is very greedy, until the alien owner came to reclaim it.
L12,12\1 raft, they build a small vehicle to send don the pilot home but smith stole it and flew away with will. when landing they see they did not reach earth so he must return will to family.
M13,12\8 one, penny finds a sv containing a dog etc.
I hope I can summarize more later
Friday, January 10, 2020
glenn part one
glenn was feeling angry. people always told him "u cant be angry." like one is a bad person if feels angry or did not forgive... they expected.
"hell," glen whisperd, "they accused only me but others were angry." he continued the rant in his thoughts: when others are angry at me, could i say "you are bad for being angry". what about god? god was angry and god is considerd holy despite bad anger and lack of anger management. how would you even check if god existed anyway? pause.
glen was angry for a reason. he wanted to see the animals at the zu. specificly the birds. the only time to go to the zoo is during cold weather. but his stupid stubborn parents refused to take him now, during winter vacation and insited on taking him in the summer vacation. he rememberd the summer trip when he sufferd from the heat and baked in the solar oven of the sky. the smell of animals... and worse, spread and magnified in the heat of the summer. walking under the burning sun was no "fun" vacation that was pain and suffering but his parents did not care that he sufferd in the summer. they did not care that he woulda enjoyed the cheesy za. they did not care that in the winter they could all enjoy the zoo. they were stubborn about their stupidity too. "this is not for negotiation" they would say about everything... like "this one thing"?
and glen lacked enuf money to go to the zoo when he wanted. like parents pay... so like... "we pay for your wedding so we choose whoever you will marry".
just because his name was glenn gladsteen did not mean he was always glad. luckily he had a rich frend named zoe. she had more money than he could ever need.
after the shouting match with his stubborn and foolish parents, glenn changed tactics. "i see you are right about the zoo can i have money for..." and rudely they interrupted "we spend enuf money on you... now go eat your tasteless cucumbers" well of course they did not say the word tasteless... but kukes were either tasteless or bitter. if THEY had blocked stommiks then THEY should eat the kukes. but they hated the vejdables too... so they made him eat them... as if his eating would move THEIR clogd stommiks.
glenn was already 14 years age. he was growing taller each week. hair was growing in the natural places. the hair was like the orange color on oranges that indicated that the fruit was "ripe" and prepared already. he considerd this kuz... hell... he could freegin have his own kid ! but his parents refused to see that he was mature already... that he could think and negotiate... they had no ears to listen to reasoning or reasons.
first he would get his way and later he would get EVEN.
glenn walkd to the frij and found the gross green kyuuks. he scrubbed and washed 3 and brought two plates each with a yuk-kyuk to his parents.
"we told you to eat it" they said in chorus. glenn told the truth "i washed 3 and shared with you". pa responded "you gotta eat all 3--dont you want one?--no. and never tell your parents to do anything--i will follow your example and not eat them either.--how dare you!" they shouted in chorus.
pa continued "no allowance for the rest of the month."
ha... that was no loss. to take away his allowance they would need to START giving one. he thought of his parents punishments. they were worse than vampires i mean every parent cherishes their child and a child is like a treasure even more precious than his favorite trophy but his parents were too wicked to see that their own child was their treasure.
as he turned to carry the yuks to the table, pa added "and now you need to wash two extra plates".
glenn EXPLODED. he HISSED between teeth pressed together "you mean i need to sweap..." as he lifted the plates hi... over his hed as the green vejjies slid off... and threw the plates down on the tiles of the kijjin.
SMASH. the white plates shatterd and pieces slid to every side across the kijjin.
ma waild a shreik "iyyyY"
pa hollerd "i would HIT you for that. but i cant. you will lose something you like."
on one hand he felt horror that his pa WANTED to hit him. i would never hit something that i treasured... on the other hand he was not surprised. glenn controld his voice and replied "deduct it from my allowance."
dad LOST control and stepd toward the kijjin... but luckily for pa, his wife ma grabd his arm and said "i will report you to the five-oh if you hit him."
pa stormed toward the door of the house. glenn hoped he would never return. then ma started crying "my pretty plates you broke my pretty white plates".
glenn repeated "take the payment from my allowance".
as ma sobbed he added "jeez as if you cant buy new plates. you care more about the plates than you feel about me--how dare you ! and after i just protected you from your dad."
glenn knew she was right about that but thout: her other actions outweighed this... by far. and was it realy "a sign of lov" to stop a hit, that should not happen anyway. i mean the same as pa cant hit ma or an adult the same for hitting any kid or me. it is the same bad action.
in a sarcastic tone glenn added "i am sorry that i ruined the pretty red pattern of the plates."
you know white plates are white.
ma turned away and before she could do anything, she heard the door open. she ran after pa as he exited the front door.
responsibly, he grabd the broom and swept the peices of plates. he heard his parents shouting from the corridor of the apartment building. all the nebbors could hear them shouting about divorce. obviously the nebbors also could hear his parents shouting when they were in the home too.
he dumped the pieces in the trash bin and added the 3 clean kukes. a new meaning for "waste, not want". next he walked to the charger of the telefone. he thout "what good is a cordless phone if you need to go to the charger each time just to find it. you may as well have a cord to force you to leave it on the charger." he presd the button and listend for the beep. the fone was in the cowj again.
glenn walked to the cowj and pulled the fone from between two cushions. his mind did not see the two pink couch cushions, instead he saw his hand slide between zoes two milkees. she was a ripe lady. he put the phone in the charger and went to stand in the shower. he pretended he was doing the action that married people do and in moments he felt better. stepping out from the shower he turned on the water and washed some new fresh white jel from the floor down the drain. some wiit jel stuck to the tile on the wall so he turned the hose to clean the tiles.
back to the fone. his parents were still hollering about divorce and ma was sobbing and pa was hollering something... "who cares whatever he said" thout glenn. he presd the code to instant-dial zoe and held it to his left ear.
far away, at the home of zoey zoben her phone rang. yes her own personal phone line. no waiting for ma to stop yammering as she did the chores. rich people had the easy life.
as he waited for zoe to respond, glenn opened the freezer. what a stupid name. the purpose was to keep stuff already frozen. but it did freeze liquids too. but that was not the main purpose and the name should be the purpose. he wonderd what name would be better. as he searched for the red box of frozen za. the box stated the obvious "frozen pizza".
he shut the ice-gaurd, and pulled on the paper to open the box but the paper just stretched. so he took a knife from a drawer and returned to the box... just then ma enterd sobbing and alone. she saw him holding the knife and EXPLODED "oh i am sorry baby... dont cut yourself... mommy will make things good again"
glenn was so shokd... he froze and dropd the knife down to the floor. before he could ask himself: why she thout he would injure himself? she was running to hug him... "gross i should be hugging my own wife at my age" he thout. but his ma hugd him and said "oh baby dont cut yourself i dont want you to get hurt". he waited for her sobbing to calm and then asked "is dad gone?" she started sobbing again but finally released her grip. "yes. i hate that he is leaving but best for us that he leave".
glenn asked "when is zaq's birthday". he knew. ma, her name was... actually had been: peggy pelton, until she married zaq gladsteen. peggy said "zaq's birthday is tmoro"--glenn added "so we wont give him cake."
that caused the desired result. ma fled from the kijjen sobbing again and did not notice the za which she forbade him from eating. when ma went to cry in her soft bed, he picked up the knife and cut the box of za. only then he heard through the phone... still pressed on his left ear... zoe's voice. "who is calling? tell me already. why are you crying". he bit back a cuss of anger that zoe had heard. everything.
should he end the call? poor zoe felt compassion for whoever was crying. glenn started to speak "hi this is glenn..." he paused not sure what he could say.
"who was crying?" she askd.--"my ma was sad kuz she is divorcing pa."
zoe replied, "for THAT they cry?? my ma has been divorced twice already. better that way."
glenn hoped he would not divorce zoe... but he was so different from his pa and from stubborn foolish ma. he hoped zoe was smarter than most girls... or he was doomed. he loved zoe but if she was stubborn he would leave.
he waited to zap the za in the quik-heater.
zoe continued as if nothing dramatic happend "so whyd you call?"
glenn could not think. he could not remember. he blurted out "i was thinking of you" and he had been.--"that is so sweet", zoe gushed. glenn recalled and addded "i wanna invite you to go with me to the zoo."--"oooh i love the animals." unexpectedly, the phone beepd as she ended the connection. he was stund. they had not made any plans.
he slid the pizza from the box. then pulled a frozen tile out and put it on some paper. then he lay it in the quik heater. he tapd the start button once and again. the timer showed one minute and as the machine whird and began to zap the pizza, he wonderd if zoe spelled her name with a zed or a zee.
he heard a ring from the phone. like bells ringing. he presd the button and a deep male voice said his name: "glenn--yessir--i am driving zoe to your home to bring you to the birds--good, my address is 26 val street." he heard another beep as the fone switched off. no saying "good-bye."
he glanced at the quick heater and barely ten seconds had passed... still a long time until the minute would end.
meanwhile at the zoben mansion... on zobens lane... the man started the engine of the small blue car. it was a simple small car. the one that zoe had chosen as her birthday present when she had turned ten. now she was 13. he drove the car along the narrow lane between rows of pine trees still green in winter. the computer voice said "in fifty meters turn left and then left". he cusd that the computer did not say "feet". but zoe could not hear. the thik glass window was between the driver and the teen. she was watching a music video on the screen on the seat of the car. around the screen was blak plastic. she barely noticed the car turn left between two other cars into the left lane. after the second left turn, the small pale blue car moved with a zig and a zag between the other cars.
at the poor home, glenn lay the fone on the charger. the lights shined. the fone seemd happy to be getting power. he was glad too. zoe would spend the day with him at the zoo and he did not even need money for the bus!
to be continued.
"hell," glen whisperd, "they accused only me but others were angry." he continued the rant in his thoughts: when others are angry at me, could i say "you are bad for being angry". what about god? god was angry and god is considerd holy despite bad anger and lack of anger management. how would you even check if god existed anyway? pause.
glen was angry for a reason. he wanted to see the animals at the zu. specificly the birds. the only time to go to the zoo is during cold weather. but his stupid stubborn parents refused to take him now, during winter vacation and insited on taking him in the summer vacation. he rememberd the summer trip when he sufferd from the heat and baked in the solar oven of the sky. the smell of animals... and worse, spread and magnified in the heat of the summer. walking under the burning sun was no "fun" vacation that was pain and suffering but his parents did not care that he sufferd in the summer. they did not care that he woulda enjoyed the cheesy za. they did not care that in the winter they could all enjoy the zoo. they were stubborn about their stupidity too. "this is not for negotiation" they would say about everything... like "this one thing"?
and glen lacked enuf money to go to the zoo when he wanted. like parents pay... so like... "we pay for your wedding so we choose whoever you will marry".
just because his name was glenn gladsteen did not mean he was always glad. luckily he had a rich frend named zoe. she had more money than he could ever need.
after the shouting match with his stubborn and foolish parents, glenn changed tactics. "i see you are right about the zoo can i have money for..." and rudely they interrupted "we spend enuf money on you... now go eat your tasteless cucumbers" well of course they did not say the word tasteless... but kukes were either tasteless or bitter. if THEY had blocked stommiks then THEY should eat the kukes. but they hated the vejdables too... so they made him eat them... as if his eating would move THEIR clogd stommiks.
glenn was already 14 years age. he was growing taller each week. hair was growing in the natural places. the hair was like the orange color on oranges that indicated that the fruit was "ripe" and prepared already. he considerd this kuz... hell... he could freegin have his own kid ! but his parents refused to see that he was mature already... that he could think and negotiate... they had no ears to listen to reasoning or reasons.
first he would get his way and later he would get EVEN.
glenn walkd to the frij and found the gross green kyuuks. he scrubbed and washed 3 and brought two plates each with a yuk-kyuk to his parents.
"we told you to eat it" they said in chorus. glenn told the truth "i washed 3 and shared with you". pa responded "you gotta eat all 3--dont you want one?--no. and never tell your parents to do anything--i will follow your example and not eat them either.--how dare you!" they shouted in chorus.
pa continued "no allowance for the rest of the month."
ha... that was no loss. to take away his allowance they would need to START giving one. he thought of his parents punishments. they were worse than vampires i mean every parent cherishes their child and a child is like a treasure even more precious than his favorite trophy but his parents were too wicked to see that their own child was their treasure.
as he turned to carry the yuks to the table, pa added "and now you need to wash two extra plates".
glenn EXPLODED. he HISSED between teeth pressed together "you mean i need to sweap..." as he lifted the plates hi... over his hed as the green vejjies slid off... and threw the plates down on the tiles of the kijjin.
SMASH. the white plates shatterd and pieces slid to every side across the kijjin.
ma waild a shreik "iyyyY"
pa hollerd "i would HIT you for that. but i cant. you will lose something you like."
on one hand he felt horror that his pa WANTED to hit him. i would never hit something that i treasured... on the other hand he was not surprised. glenn controld his voice and replied "deduct it from my allowance."
dad LOST control and stepd toward the kijjin... but luckily for pa, his wife ma grabd his arm and said "i will report you to the five-oh if you hit him."
pa stormed toward the door of the house. glenn hoped he would never return. then ma started crying "my pretty plates you broke my pretty white plates".
glenn repeated "take the payment from my allowance".
as ma sobbed he added "jeez as if you cant buy new plates. you care more about the plates than you feel about me--how dare you ! and after i just protected you from your dad."
glenn knew she was right about that but thout: her other actions outweighed this... by far. and was it realy "a sign of lov" to stop a hit, that should not happen anyway. i mean the same as pa cant hit ma or an adult the same for hitting any kid or me. it is the same bad action.
in a sarcastic tone glenn added "i am sorry that i ruined the pretty red pattern of the plates."
you know white plates are white.
ma turned away and before she could do anything, she heard the door open. she ran after pa as he exited the front door.
responsibly, he grabd the broom and swept the peices of plates. he heard his parents shouting from the corridor of the apartment building. all the nebbors could hear them shouting about divorce. obviously the nebbors also could hear his parents shouting when they were in the home too.
he dumped the pieces in the trash bin and added the 3 clean kukes. a new meaning for "waste, not want". next he walked to the charger of the telefone. he thout "what good is a cordless phone if you need to go to the charger each time just to find it. you may as well have a cord to force you to leave it on the charger." he presd the button and listend for the beep. the fone was in the cowj again.
glenn walked to the cowj and pulled the fone from between two cushions. his mind did not see the two pink couch cushions, instead he saw his hand slide between zoes two milkees. she was a ripe lady. he put the phone in the charger and went to stand in the shower. he pretended he was doing the action that married people do and in moments he felt better. stepping out from the shower he turned on the water and washed some new fresh white jel from the floor down the drain. some wiit jel stuck to the tile on the wall so he turned the hose to clean the tiles.
back to the fone. his parents were still hollering about divorce and ma was sobbing and pa was hollering something... "who cares whatever he said" thout glenn. he presd the code to instant-dial zoe and held it to his left ear.
far away, at the home of zoey zoben her phone rang. yes her own personal phone line. no waiting for ma to stop yammering as she did the chores. rich people had the easy life.
as he waited for zoe to respond, glenn opened the freezer. what a stupid name. the purpose was to keep stuff already frozen. but it did freeze liquids too. but that was not the main purpose and the name should be the purpose. he wonderd what name would be better. as he searched for the red box of frozen za. the box stated the obvious "frozen pizza".
he shut the ice-gaurd, and pulled on the paper to open the box but the paper just stretched. so he took a knife from a drawer and returned to the box... just then ma enterd sobbing and alone. she saw him holding the knife and EXPLODED "oh i am sorry baby... dont cut yourself... mommy will make things good again"
glenn was so shokd... he froze and dropd the knife down to the floor. before he could ask himself: why she thout he would injure himself? she was running to hug him... "gross i should be hugging my own wife at my age" he thout. but his ma hugd him and said "oh baby dont cut yourself i dont want you to get hurt". he waited for her sobbing to calm and then asked "is dad gone?" she started sobbing again but finally released her grip. "yes. i hate that he is leaving but best for us that he leave".
glenn asked "when is zaq's birthday". he knew. ma, her name was... actually had been: peggy pelton, until she married zaq gladsteen. peggy said "zaq's birthday is tmoro"--glenn added "so we wont give him cake."
that caused the desired result. ma fled from the kijjen sobbing again and did not notice the za which she forbade him from eating. when ma went to cry in her soft bed, he picked up the knife and cut the box of za. only then he heard through the phone... still pressed on his left ear... zoe's voice. "who is calling? tell me already. why are you crying". he bit back a cuss of anger that zoe had heard. everything.
should he end the call? poor zoe felt compassion for whoever was crying. glenn started to speak "hi this is glenn..." he paused not sure what he could say.
"who was crying?" she askd.--"my ma was sad kuz she is divorcing pa."
zoe replied, "for THAT they cry?? my ma has been divorced twice already. better that way."
glenn hoped he would not divorce zoe... but he was so different from his pa and from stubborn foolish ma. he hoped zoe was smarter than most girls... or he was doomed. he loved zoe but if she was stubborn he would leave.
he waited to zap the za in the quik-heater.
zoe continued as if nothing dramatic happend "so whyd you call?"
glenn could not think. he could not remember. he blurted out "i was thinking of you" and he had been.--"that is so sweet", zoe gushed. glenn recalled and addded "i wanna invite you to go with me to the zoo."--"oooh i love the animals." unexpectedly, the phone beepd as she ended the connection. he was stund. they had not made any plans.
he slid the pizza from the box. then pulled a frozen tile out and put it on some paper. then he lay it in the quik heater. he tapd the start button once and again. the timer showed one minute and as the machine whird and began to zap the pizza, he wonderd if zoe spelled her name with a zed or a zee.
he heard a ring from the phone. like bells ringing. he presd the button and a deep male voice said his name: "glenn--yessir--i am driving zoe to your home to bring you to the birds--good, my address is 26 val street." he heard another beep as the fone switched off. no saying "good-bye."
he glanced at the quick heater and barely ten seconds had passed... still a long time until the minute would end.
meanwhile at the zoben mansion... on zobens lane... the man started the engine of the small blue car. it was a simple small car. the one that zoe had chosen as her birthday present when she had turned ten. now she was 13. he drove the car along the narrow lane between rows of pine trees still green in winter. the computer voice said "in fifty meters turn left and then left". he cusd that the computer did not say "feet". but zoe could not hear. the thik glass window was between the driver and the teen. she was watching a music video on the screen on the seat of the car. around the screen was blak plastic. she barely noticed the car turn left between two other cars into the left lane. after the second left turn, the small pale blue car moved with a zig and a zag between the other cars.
at the poor home, glenn lay the fone on the charger. the lights shined. the fone seemd happy to be getting power. he was glad too. zoe would spend the day with him at the zoo and he did not even need money for the bus!
to be continued.
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