Sunday, July 30, 2017

He hadn't planned on going into the Nostalgic Food Store, but he now felt a compulsion to buy candy cigarettes.

"Infinite Quisp" (an excerpt)...

Napken felt the vibration in his pocket as he walked past the Nostalgic Food Store. Retrieving the phone from his pocket, he briefly stared at his reflection imposed upon a pyramid of pale blue Quisp cereal boxes. Perhaps his father ate these when he was a child, he thought. Perhaps eating a bowl of Quisp cereal would better his understanding of his father: after all, you cannot truly understand a man until you understand his memories...

Answering the call, a pleasant female monotone voice told Napken that life was worth living, that things can always get better. Don't let anxiety swallow you, she said. That was odd, he thought: the Affirmation App was usually good at sensing emotion, but he didn't feel suicidal in the slightest. Except now the thought of suicide was in his head. Looking at the boxes of Quisp, the thought flittered away...

He hadn't planned on going into the Nostalgic Food Store, but he now felt a compulsion to buy candy cigarettes. When he was a child all the adults smoked. His father smoked, his mother smoked. His uncles smoked, his aunts smoked. His school-teachers: they smoked. Yes, he would buy candy cigarettes, and they needed to be in a red box, he was sure of that...


I am Laslo.



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