“15 minutes
could save you 15% or more on car insurance.”
The Dukes of
Hazzard*
It's been a
while since I mentioned them, but I have incredibly vivid dreams on a
nightly basis and remember them pretty well to boot. Last night I had
what I call a “camera” dream. It's a dream where I don't really
exist and only float around as a non-existent person...like a camera
in a movie. Though sometimes I turn back and forth into this during
dreams where I do exist.
Anyway last
night I dreamed about the villains and heroes of videos games coming
against each other all in one crossover. It was in fairly realistic
CGI with the rendering of softness based on character. Yeah, I
dreamed in CGI, weird huh? Though not for me. I've had plenty of
dreams where everything was in CGI and looked like I walked into
Pixar or whatever.
But really I've
had lots of altered reality dreams. I've had cartoon dreams, things
where things were not like the smooth CGI of today, but like the
terrible polygons of old video games. There have been cartoon ones.
I've had black and white dreams(y'know like old movies). I've been in
comics, like in one. It was a camera dream except I was the character
on the page. I could control my movement but the panels would
change...that one was really odd. Any of the 2D dreams I have
are weird. Though one of my strangest didn't have any dimensions at
all. I had it a long time ago. The none dimensional just had colors
in this non-defined space and I couldn't determine if the space had
or did not have depth. It was just there. And without being pure
blackness I couldn't take it in as nothingness...yeah, I no idea what
to call it
Now onto to
what annoyed me. I was having the awesome dream about the video game
heroes and villains fighting and right in one of the most dynamic
moments my alarm wakes me up. I hate that thing, it interrupts all
the good ones. But I do have to take morning medication...
Anyway onto the
flash fiction!
The
Semicolon is the Loneliest Punctuation Mark
; ---->
Exclamation Point, do you know why nobody likes me?
! -----> I
like you...you're my best friend.
; -----> I
meant everybody else. Not just the other punctuation marks but the
humans too.
! ----->
Well, maybe they're just judging you on your looks. Maybe you look
intimidating because you're both a period and a comma at the same
time.
; ----->
Really? You think it's intimidating? Question Mark said I look like a
freak and should stay away from period and comma just not to scare
them.
! ----->
Don't listen to Question Mark...you know he's a jerk. You'd get along
with plenty of people.
+ ----> Hey
Exclamation Point, how's it going?
! ----> Hey
Plus Sign. What brings a mathematical symbol to our side of town.
+ ---> Just
hangin'...um...what's that?
; ----> Hi!
My name is semicolon!
+ ---> Never
heard of ya.
; ----> I'm a
punctuation mark just like Exclamation Point. Wanna hang out.
+ ---> Nah,
I'll pass...it's just. You're one thing on top of another. And in
math land...well one thing on top of the other is exponential and
things always get complicated when that happens...so I'll pass. I
don't wanna be rude...but I gotta go.
; ----> I
told you nobody likes me Exclamation Point.
: ----> Hey
little bro.
; ----> Hey,
colon.
: ----> How's
it going?
; ----> Fine.
Just hanging out with Exclamation Point.
: ----> Hah,
that loser? I told you, you can totally hang out with my crew.
; -----> Hey,
Exclamation Point is my best friend! And I don't like any of your
friends. They're all hotheaded, idiots. All Start Quote can do is
repeat someone else's opinion. He can't come up with any original
ideas. Besides who to freeload off of. And you keep making me pay
back everything you owe to End Quote!
: -----> Why
you...!
! -----> Stop
your arguing! Ampersand is coming over here!
; -----> Wait
Ampersand?
: The hottest,
curviest punctuation symbol of them all?
& ---->
So guys, what are you talking about?
: ----> Manly
things.
; ---->
Astrophysics.
! ---->
Puppies.
& ---->
Right...
: ----> I
must say you are looking beautiful today Ampersand.
& ---->
That's what all the men say. Besides Ellipses. He never says
anything. To anyone. Ever.
; -----> We
look the same everyday. Isn't saying she looks beautiful today kinda
stupid? It's kinda like saying the sky is blue today.
! ----->
Haha, Semicolon is right. We always do look the same.
& ---->
So you're the ever-elusive, legendary Semicolon?
: ---->
Legendary? My brother is no legend.
& ---->
Well you see him so little people hardly know he exists. I think I've
ever hardly been in the same sentence with him or anyone else for
that matter. And you all know how easy it is to forget a single
sentence. I think the humans have a phobia of him. Maybe he's too
cool for 'em? Hehe.
: ----> He's
a freak! Look at the comma tail!
& ----> I
think the comma tail is cute.
; ----->
What?
! ----> Oh,
Ampersand, he was too nervous to say it but Semicolon was planning to
ask you out on a date.
& ---->
I'd love to. He is very mysterious and unused. So few humans use him.
Makes him feel forbidden y'know?
: ----> I
hate you Exclamation Point.
! ----> I'm
just helping out a friend; I got you back for calling me a loser too.
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