Loop of a Lovesick Leper
April. Junior year.
I'd known Avalon Gates for a year.
certainly hadn't felt like it,
though.
It felt like I'd met her yesterday
& twelve centuries ago
all at once
felt like up till Ava Gates
flashed that first
freckled grin
in my direction
I'd been living in black & white
& then W H A M ! ! !
Oz & rainbows & flying monkeys!
"Toto, we're not in Kansas anymore -
we're on the frikken moon -
we're on Mars!
and the laws of gravity,
the laws at the foundations
of the very heart of the universe itself
have all been completely obliterated -
isn't it amazing?
isn't it terrifying?
I knew I'd have to make a choice
& soon.
Option A - tell Ava The Truth:
I was deeply in love with her.
I'd been in love with her
that whole year,
when we were together -
forget walking,
I felt like I was
F L Y I N G
& when she was gone
it felt like the world
had somehow been
paused.
all the colors
turned dull &
washed out
& yet
a very loud voice
in my head kept playing
like the endless loop
on one of those
old VHS cassette tapes -
"Look at you.
You have no chance.
She sees you
as a 'friend.'
An adorable pet
she likes to pat
on the head.
Face reality, kid:
you're in a
wheelchair,
she belongs
on the frikken
silver screen!
(where cripples
fear to tread)
Less outta your league,
more like outta your freaking
genus."
- leper leper
leper -
...or, there was always
Option B:
Explode.
guess which one
I picked.
Night of the Living Popcorn: Tales After The Bomb #4
It was just Ava & I
that night.
(Pea was busy, working on some arcane piece of homework. On a Friday night. While Tales After The Bomb was broadcasting. I was a geek, sure, but I was never gonna be a capital 'G' Geek like her...)
So we decided
to watch the TAB
episode that night
without her.
It was still
about a month
before the big
Season 3 Finale:
the Mutants &
the Featherbolters
hadn't even gotten around
to pulling down <San Perrito's>
Downside Wall yet.
That week's episode
was called "<Espíritu Claro>"
& it focuses on Cap'n Cologne
& Patch the Cyborg
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Avalon Bombshell
Teen FictionThe Freak shall inherit the Earth - it's a saying from Matthias Fitz's favorite TV show, Tales After The Bomb - a cartoon about the post-apocalypse - mutants, cyborgs, zombies, anarchist DJs, & a wasteland - everything an ultra-geek could want. Matt...
