I Am A Woolgatherer

I went to a beach and there were many boats with people drinking on board. I was jealous. I knew it would be easy to recreate a collapsible boat so I left to make plans. Somewhere along the way I did something or saw something bad. A memory card was sent to me and had scratches on it. I had my original one. They both had the same date written on them, but I knew only one was legitimate, because it was dirty and old looking. These were supposedly photographs of what happened that day.

Dirk came in a four wheel drive, to my parents place, where I was staying. He came to pick me up. He had a little sister, a male friend who was a bit odd and a girlfriend. We were going to the movies to see a terrible film that I knew neither of us would ever want to see, but his girlfriend wanted to see it so it was okay. It was some sort of pixar rubbish. We were late. I did not want to stay in the movie as it was terrible, but as I walked away I fell down the stairs of the cinema and it was quite embarrassing.

Dirk sat with me on the steps to the cinema and offered to take me home. Finally, I honestly didn’t want him to. I wanted him to go to the life he had with this random guy and his perfect little sister and his girly idiot girlfriend who he would one day marry and drive to his highway hotel honeymoon in his four wheel drive where they will commemorate the rest of their life together. What fun.

Years later I was working in some sort of scientific facility, and Dirk would suddenly appear, also working for said scientific facility. We had not spoken since that day at the cinema but I heard his wife had recently died in some sort of odd plague that occurred outside of the facility. It had a lot of windows. Looking outside of the window saw an unidentified flying object crash into the other side of town. I advised everyone at the facility to close the windows as the crash had damaged the land which was putting off some sort of gas. I could see it was dissipating so we wouldn’t be stuck inside for long.

This would have been the case, except, the object rose again and began to suck something, perhaps the plague, out of the earths crust. The entire world shook, and it felt as though we were going to fly through the universe. I crushed my eyes closed and awoke at a different time.

Hiding in a hallway, we were able to see some oddly green and long legged fellows running around the now dilapidated facility. One of them stopped and turned towards me. He appeared to be wearing women’s clothing, and this disgruntled him. He asked me if perhaps we could swap clothes and I could take his place in the bone battle. This did not sound appealing to me at all.