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Chapter 1
Oh Nightmare of Nightmares
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Chapter 2
The Truth About Spiderman
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Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Table of Contents
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prelude
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Chapter 1
Oh Nightmare of Nightmares
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Chapter 2
The Truth About Spiderman
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Chapter 1
Oh Nightmare of Nightmares
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Chapter 2
The Truth About Spiderman
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Tuesday, August 19, 2008
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The King of Magic
prelude -
Somewhere in the vicinity of 14 billion years ago, or so the scientists say, it all began. All of everything that is shot outward in every direction, in what was at that point the largest explosion that had ever been. It did not make a sound, as there was no one there to hear it, but I do hear that it was colorful.
The energy that had created the explosion floated across what was rapidly becoming the universe as it formed, and spread. It created life as we know it, and as it did it sifted through its creations in search. The energy continued its silent invisible, search until it ended some approximate thirteen billion nine hundred ninety nine million nine hundred and fifty thousand years later (or more simply put, about fifty thousand years ago) when that energy found its vessel roundabouts northern Africa. One of the first of the homo sapiens sapiens, a modern man. He was the first of the first of the Kings of Magic.
But our story begins another fifty thousand or so years later, with an even larger explosion than the one that started everything. It was also very colorful, and it did make a sound, but only one person heard it.
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prelude -
Somewhere in the vicinity of 14 billion years ago, or so the scientists say, it all began. All of everything that is shot outward in every direction, in what was at that point the largest explosion that had ever been. It did not make a sound, as there was no one there to hear it, but I do hear that it was colorful.
The energy that had created the explosion floated across what was rapidly becoming the universe as it formed, and spread. It created life as we know it, and as it did it sifted through its creations in search. The energy continued its silent invisible, search until it ended some approximate thirteen billion nine hundred ninety nine million nine hundred and fifty thousand years later (or more simply put, about fifty thousand years ago) when that energy found its vessel roundabouts northern Africa. One of the first of the homo sapiens sapiens, a modern man. He was the first of the first of the Kings of Magic.
But our story begins another fifty thousand or so years later, with an even larger explosion than the one that started everything. It was also very colorful, and it did make a sound, but only one person heard it.
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Monday, August 18, 2008
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1. Oh Nightmare of Nightmares
They say that those closest to the center of an explosion feel no pain, as they are torn into the tiniest of bits and die, and Joshua was almost certainly the very center of this explosion. Still, he found the sensation to be quite painful. He could feel his flesh being torn away from his bones, and his bones splintering into the tiniest of shards and disintegrating, and his eyes melting away into nothing, and his teeth shattering, (I don't even want to talk about how his family jewels felt,) but that wasn't all he could feel. He also felt the simultaneous and identical deaths of so many others. He thought for just an instant on how it was kind of like how Luke Skywalker described feeling when Alderon was destroyed, "like a million voices crying out in unison, then suddenly silenced," only there was no silence, he'd have been grateful if there were, and it wasn't just a million either. It was in the billions, or maybe even the trillions, and it wasn't just people, either. He felt the plants, and the animals, and the insects, and whole planets themselves, across all of the Milky Way, whole planets splintering into nothing, and aliens in far of worlds ceasing to be as well, until there was nothing, absolutely nothing left in the Milky Way or beyond. The universe itself was gone, obliterated.
Obliterated for an instant, and at the end of it that explosion, the greatest explosion that had ever been reeled itself backwards, and bits and pieces of planets materialized into existence, and stuck back together again, and so did the bits and pieces of all the aliens, and the plants, and the animals, and the people, and eventually Joshua himself, as the explosion folded itself away into nothing. He looked around his room everything was intact, including the bed he was sitting upon. It had all been a nightmare he presumed. The worst, he'd ever had. He took a deep breath pulled the covers over his shoulders, and closed his eyes, only for them to shoot open again, as a glowing white beam hopped out of his body, landing in the shape of a person bowing before him.
"The king is dead," said the glowing white person. "Long live the king."
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They say that those closest to the center of an explosion feel no pain, as they are torn into the tiniest of bits and die, and Joshua was almost certainly the very center of this explosion. Still, he found the sensation to be quite painful. He could feel his flesh being torn away from his bones, and his bones splintering into the tiniest of shards and disintegrating, and his eyes melting away into nothing, and his teeth shattering, (I don't even want to talk about how his family jewels felt,) but that wasn't all he could feel. He also felt the simultaneous and identical deaths of so many others. He thought for just an instant on how it was kind of like how Luke Skywalker described feeling when Alderon was destroyed, "like a million voices crying out in unison, then suddenly silenced," only there was no silence, he'd have been grateful if there were, and it wasn't just a million either. It was in the billions, or maybe even the trillions, and it wasn't just people, either. He felt the plants, and the animals, and the insects, and whole planets themselves, across all of the Milky Way, whole planets splintering into nothing, and aliens in far of worlds ceasing to be as well, until there was nothing, absolutely nothing left in the Milky Way or beyond. The universe itself was gone, obliterated.
Obliterated for an instant, and at the end of it that explosion, the greatest explosion that had ever been reeled itself backwards, and bits and pieces of planets materialized into existence, and stuck back together again, and so did the bits and pieces of all the aliens, and the plants, and the animals, and the people, and eventually Joshua himself, as the explosion folded itself away into nothing. He looked around his room everything was intact, including the bed he was sitting upon. It had all been a nightmare he presumed. The worst, he'd ever had. He took a deep breath pulled the covers over his shoulders, and closed his eyes, only for them to shoot open again, as a glowing white beam hopped out of his body, landing in the shape of a person bowing before him.
"The king is dead," said the glowing white person. "Long live the king."
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Saturday, August 16, 2008
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"Mom! Mom! Mom!" Josh chanted gesturing wildly as he whipped his emergency nerf bat out from under his pillow, and began whacking the strange ghost man (?) in the face with it over and over again. It glared menacingly back with red eyes. The emergency nerf bat was kept beneath Josh's pillow at all times. Its purpose was to be at the ready in case of monster attack. Of course Josh had now been ten years old for some time, and therefore of such an age as to be of the mistaken impression that there were no such a things as monsters. Still, the nerf bat had remained, long after his mind had freed itself of such helpful superstitions, functioning merely as a security blanket, which is for the record all it could have ever been good for anyway, as there are very few situations wherein a nerf bat can be of any use against any type of monster.
"Kid, shaddap, calm down," it uttered in harsh whisper, and it reached out to grab Joshua by his pajama shirt, this oddly had no calming effect on the boy, and instead prompted him to fall off the bed. To the boy's credit he managed to land a devastating blow to the ghost's fedora, knocking the hat from atop its head. The ghost caught the fedora in the air as Joshua crashed onto his back.
"Mom, help! There's a guy in my room! Help!" Josh rolled onto his hands and knees, and crawled across the floor.
"You gotta be kiddin' me," it uttered looking from one side of the room to the other, adjusting its fedora, as it reapplied it to the top of its head.
"Help!!! Help!!!"
The door to Josh's room swung open, and as it did so, the glowing white figure became a beam again, and shot back into the boy's body.
"What is it, are you ok!?" Our hero's mother spat (the words) as she came bustling into the room, shooting her gaze from one end of it to the other, and then back to Joshua sprawled across the floor. A look of panic quickly replaced itself with annoyance.
"Aaaa! Aaaa! He went inside me again! The glowing man went back inside me!" he shouted flailing his arms and legs in the air, and then abruptly sitting up, and gazing into the collar of his pajamas, as if to see if the man was hiding in there.
"Ok wait, slow down. Who was inside you?" She extended her hand outward in a stop motion, as if it had the power (as often it did) to create coherence where there was none.
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"Mom! Mom! Mom!" Josh chanted gesturing wildly as he whipped his emergency nerf bat out from under his pillow, and began whacking the strange ghost man (?) in the face with it over and over again. It glared menacingly back with red eyes. The emergency nerf bat was kept beneath Josh's pillow at all times. Its purpose was to be at the ready in case of monster attack. Of course Josh had now been ten years old for some time, and therefore of such an age as to be of the mistaken impression that there were no such a things as monsters. Still, the nerf bat had remained, long after his mind had freed itself of such helpful superstitions, functioning merely as a security blanket, which is for the record all it could have ever been good for anyway, as there are very few situations wherein a nerf bat can be of any use against any type of monster.
"Kid, shaddap, calm down," it uttered in harsh whisper, and it reached out to grab Joshua by his pajama shirt, this oddly had no calming effect on the boy, and instead prompted him to fall off the bed. To the boy's credit he managed to land a devastating blow to the ghost's fedora, knocking the hat from atop its head. The ghost caught the fedora in the air as Joshua crashed onto his back.
"Mom, help! There's a guy in my room! Help!" Josh rolled onto his hands and knees, and crawled across the floor.
"You gotta be kiddin' me," it uttered looking from one side of the room to the other, adjusting its fedora, as it reapplied it to the top of its head.
"Help!!! Help!!!"
The door to Josh's room swung open, and as it did so, the glowing white figure became a beam again, and shot back into the boy's body.
"What is it, are you ok!?" Our hero's mother spat (the words) as she came bustling into the room, shooting her gaze from one end of it to the other, and then back to Joshua sprawled across the floor. A look of panic quickly replaced itself with annoyance.
"Aaaa! Aaaa! He went inside me again! The glowing man went back inside me!" he shouted flailing his arms and legs in the air, and then abruptly sitting up, and gazing into the collar of his pajamas, as if to see if the man was hiding in there.
"Ok wait, slow down. Who was inside you?" She extended her hand outward in a stop motion, as if it had the power (as often it did) to create coherence where there was none.
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Friday, August 15, 2008
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"Um, the guy!" Josh shouted, lifting to his feet, and reaching up to grab his mother by her shoulders and shake her back and forth. "He was like- I mean...I guess it was more like a ghost than a guy. Like, it was in me- like it came out of me, and then went back in. Do you think it was my soul?"
Katheryn (Josh's mother) eyed her son with a look that suggested he might soon be strangled in the untimely event of his not returning to bed..
"Oh and the um...universe may have exploded earlier. But...I guess that part might have been a dream."
"Just that part."
"Ummm..."
Before he could finish his answer, his mother had lifted him up over her head and slammed him back onto his bed. "Sleep!" she commanded, and stomped out of the room, slamming the door behind her.
"You'll feel sorry when I'm dead!!!" he shouted after her, and spent the rest of the night sitting up in bed, waiting for the ghost man to come back out. He didn't get any sleep that night. Nothing too odd about that. The odd thing was that he didn't need any.
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"Um, the guy!" Josh shouted, lifting to his feet, and reaching up to grab his mother by her shoulders and shake her back and forth. "He was like- I mean...I guess it was more like a ghost than a guy. Like, it was in me- like it came out of me, and then went back in. Do you think it was my soul?"
Katheryn (Josh's mother) eyed her son with a look that suggested he might soon be strangled in the untimely event of his not returning to bed..
"Oh and the um...universe may have exploded earlier. But...I guess that part might have been a dream."
"Just that part."
"Ummm..."
Before he could finish his answer, his mother had lifted him up over her head and slammed him back onto his bed. "Sleep!" she commanded, and stomped out of the room, slamming the door behind her.
"You'll feel sorry when I'm dead!!!" he shouted after her, and spent the rest of the night sitting up in bed, waiting for the ghost man to come back out. He didn't get any sleep that night. Nothing too odd about that. The odd thing was that he didn't need any.
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Thursday, August 14, 2008
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Josh walks into the kitchen in his pajamas. His mother is at the table in the center of the room. She eyes Josh wearily. They stare at each other for awhile. Josh strokes his chin, paces back and forth, stops next to his mother, and speaks.
Josh: Mom, I didn't get any sleep last night and I'm wide awake.
Kat: Well that'll happen sometimes, dearie.
Josh: No, you don't get it. I feel like I just slept all night. I'm way awake!
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Kat: Well that's what happens when you drink mommy's energy drinks!
Josh: It is?
Kat: Yep!
Josh: But I didn't drink any of your energy drinks! You have energy drinks?
Kat: Yes I do, and yes you have. You just admitted it a second ago.
Josh: I did?
Kat: Yes, Josh.
Josh: Oh...I don't remember admitting to it.
Kat: Well you did, take my word for it.
Katheryn rolls her eyes. Josh gulps.
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Josh walks into the kitchen in his pajamas. His mother is at the table in the center of the room. She eyes Josh wearily. They stare at each other for awhile. Josh strokes his chin, paces back and forth, stops next to his mother, and speaks.
Josh: Mom, I didn't get any sleep last night and I'm wide awake.
Kat: Well that'll happen sometimes, dearie.
Josh: No, you don't get it. I feel like I just slept all night. I'm way awake!
Kat: Well that's what happens when you drink mommy's energy drinks!
Josh: It is?
Kat: Yep!
Josh: But I didn't drink any of your energy drinks! You have energy drinks?
Kat: Yes I do, and yes you have. You just admitted it a second ago.
Josh: I did?
Kat: Yes, Josh.
Josh: Oh...I don't remember admitting to it.
Kat: Well you did, take my word for it.
Katheryn rolls her eyes. Josh gulps.
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Wednesday, August 13, 2008
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Josh: Oh...but mom! When I couldn't sleep last night, I started doing push ups for some reason, and it was easier than usual, and look!
Josh pulls back his sleeve, to make a rather impressive muscle, to which Katheryn rolls her eyes again.
Josh: I'm muscular now!
Kat: Very impressive. (Please note sarcasm.)
Josh: Mom! It's not impressive! It's not...normal! I'm also at least six inches taller than I was last night. Look how tall I am!
Kat: It's called a growth spurt hon', you'd better get used to 'em.
Josh: But mom! My pajamas also grew bigger to fit me!
Kat: Or, you grew into them, and we bought them too large in the first place for that very reason.
Josh: Oh right...I guess that makes sense. But Mom! That's not all. I don't need my
glasses anymore. I can see find without them.
Kat: Uh huh.
Josh: So...I've been thinking about it, and...I think I may be...well...I might as well say it...Mom, I'm definitely Spiderman.
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Josh: Oh...but mom! When I couldn't sleep last night, I started doing push ups for some reason, and it was easier than usual, and look!
Josh pulls back his sleeve, to make a rather impressive muscle, to which Katheryn rolls her eyes again.
Josh: I'm muscular now!
Kat: Very impressive. (Please note sarcasm.)
Josh: Mom! It's not impressive! It's not...normal! I'm also at least six inches taller than I was last night. Look how tall I am!
Kat: It's called a growth spurt hon', you'd better get used to 'em.
Josh: But mom! My pajamas also grew bigger to fit me!
Kat: Or, you grew into them, and we bought them too large in the first place for that very reason.
Josh: Oh right...I guess that makes sense. But Mom! That's not all. I don't need my
glasses anymore. I can see find without them.
Kat: Uh huh.
Josh: So...I've been thinking about it, and...I think I may be...well...I might as well say it...Mom, I'm definitely Spiderman.
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008
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Kat: Right, of course.
Mom nods agreeably, and Josh hops up and down.
Josh: No Mom, listen! I've been thinking about it, and me being Spiderman is the only
possibility that makes sense!
Kat: You're not Spiderman, honey. You're hyper and paranoid on energy drinks. You've had a growth spurt, kudus, perfectly normal for a child your age, and kudos to me for anticipating the event and expertly buying you a suit of oversized pajamas for you to grow into. You've been exercising a lot lately, and you've put on some muscles, congratulations on that one too. You should be very proud. You look great. And as for the reason you can see without you're glasses...well that's because you're squinting, honey.
Josh: I am?
Kat: You are.
Josh: I'm...squinting...
Kat: You're squinting.
Josh: I don't feel like I'm squinting.
Kat: Well maybe you should start feeling like it, because you are.
Josh: Oh...well I guess that explains it.
Joshua nods and nods, and keeps on nodding for awhile longer. And as he nodded, he thought on it, and although he thought it was rather strange that he could not remember drinking any energy drinks last night, nor having worn oversized pajamas to bed, nor exercising at all in the last...ever, nor did he feel as if her were currently squinting, despite all of that, when his mom told him something, she tended to be right. A large part of Joshua's identity was wrapped up in accepting the things that his mother told him. After all, she was older, and she knew better. At least that was how she put it, and after all, she generally knew best. On the other hand, Joshua also realized that if his mother was right on this one, it meant that he was completely bonkers.
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Kat: Right, of course.
Mom nods agreeably, and Josh hops up and down.
Josh: No Mom, listen! I've been thinking about it, and me being Spiderman is the only
possibility that makes sense!
Kat: You're not Spiderman, honey. You're hyper and paranoid on energy drinks. You've had a growth spurt, kudus, perfectly normal for a child your age, and kudos to me for anticipating the event and expertly buying you a suit of oversized pajamas for you to grow into. You've been exercising a lot lately, and you've put on some muscles, congratulations on that one too. You should be very proud. You look great. And as for the reason you can see without you're glasses...well that's because you're squinting, honey.
Josh: I am?
Kat: You are.
Josh: I'm...squinting...
Kat: You're squinting.
Josh: I don't feel like I'm squinting.
Kat: Well maybe you should start feeling like it, because you are.
Josh: Oh...well I guess that explains it.
Joshua nods and nods, and keeps on nodding for awhile longer. And as he nodded, he thought on it, and although he thought it was rather strange that he could not remember drinking any energy drinks last night, nor having worn oversized pajamas to bed, nor exercising at all in the last...ever, nor did he feel as if her were currently squinting, despite all of that, when his mom told him something, she tended to be right. A large part of Joshua's identity was wrapped up in accepting the things that his mother told him. After all, she was older, and she knew better. At least that was how she put it, and after all, she generally knew best. On the other hand, Joshua also realized that if his mother was right on this one, it meant that he was completely bonkers.
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Sunday, August 10, 2008
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"Well, how do you explain this, then?" he asked, and walked over to the bare part of the wall next to the pantry. He took a step up the wall, and then another, and then another, and as he reached the ceiling he stepped on to it, so that he was standing on the ceiling. He stands there for awhile, and then walks up to the area over the table so that he is almost directly overhead of his mother. She takes another bite of cereal.
Kat: How do I explain what?
Josh: Mom! I'm standing on the ceiling!
Kat: Very nice, Spiderman. But I gotta get to work. Have fun on the "ceiling".
Katheryn rolls her eyes one last time, and exits the room stage left. Josh sighs, and sits on the ceiling Indian style, and then pushes off, floats toward the ground as if he were in outer space, and lands on his feet. He looks at his stomach.
Josh: I know you're in there. You may as well come out, Casper.
The white beam shoots out of him again, landing in the seat his mother left unoccupied. The figure is tall white, and ghostly with broad shoulders. It's wearing an Italian suit and a fedora. Its eyes glow a faint red.
Casper: 'Bout time.
Josh: Who are you?
Casper: You can call me Casper.
"But who are you!!!?" Josh boomed, his voice louder than he knew it could go, echoing through the home, as the home itself shook. Not just the home either, but the entire earth tilted left and then right, and then back and forth again. Josh mouth drops open, as he realizes what just happened.
Casper: I'm yer not so humble servant. And keep your voice down, will you? All due respect.
Josh: What...what the heck was that?
Casper: Earthquake. Created by the most powerful brat in the world shouting too loud.
Josh: I did that?
Casper: Yup.
Casper rises to his feet, walks to the pantry, gets himself a bowl and some cereal, heads to the fridge, and retrieves the milk as well. He pours himself a bowl and returns to the table. Josh watches in silence.
Josh: How?
Casper: Well, why don't I just go ahead and explain that then.
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"Well, how do you explain this, then?" he asked, and walked over to the bare part of the wall next to the pantry. He took a step up the wall, and then another, and then another, and as he reached the ceiling he stepped on to it, so that he was standing on the ceiling. He stands there for awhile, and then walks up to the area over the table so that he is almost directly overhead of his mother. She takes another bite of cereal.
Kat: How do I explain what?
Josh: Mom! I'm standing on the ceiling!
Kat: Very nice, Spiderman. But I gotta get to work. Have fun on the "ceiling".
Katheryn rolls her eyes one last time, and exits the room stage left. Josh sighs, and sits on the ceiling Indian style, and then pushes off, floats toward the ground as if he were in outer space, and lands on his feet. He looks at his stomach.
Josh: I know you're in there. You may as well come out, Casper.
The white beam shoots out of him again, landing in the seat his mother left unoccupied. The figure is tall white, and ghostly with broad shoulders. It's wearing an Italian suit and a fedora. Its eyes glow a faint red.
Casper: 'Bout time.
Josh: Who are you?
Casper: You can call me Casper.
"But who are you!!!?" Josh boomed, his voice louder than he knew it could go, echoing through the home, as the home itself shook. Not just the home either, but the entire earth tilted left and then right, and then back and forth again. Josh mouth drops open, as he realizes what just happened.
Casper: I'm yer not so humble servant. And keep your voice down, will you? All due respect.
Josh: What...what the heck was that?
Casper: Earthquake. Created by the most powerful brat in the world shouting too loud.
Josh: I did that?
Casper: Yup.
Casper rises to his feet, walks to the pantry, gets himself a bowl and some cereal, heads to the fridge, and retrieves the milk as well. He pours himself a bowl and returns to the table. Josh watches in silence.
Josh: How?
Casper: Well, why don't I just go ahead and explain that then.
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