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oneironym

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 10:12 pm


The first page of the journal is blank, save for a few faint grubby fingerprints. After that, the entries begin, written in slightly large, awkward handwriting; the letters might remind one of the coils of an old Slinky, with some crowded closer together and others spaced farther apart, and all looking a little bit lumpy.
Uzoma
Well, I've got this journal now, so I might as well keep it up. What do folks put in their journals, anyway? Stuff that goes on? Might get kind of boring. I'll try to keep things interesting.

Mama was still sleeping when I got up this morning. I didn't want to wake her, so I went out on a walk for a good long time. Someone down a few blocks to the south must have done some cleaning, because there was a lot of stuff out to be taken with the trash. I went through it all and found some things that looked useful.

Here, journal, I can give you an inventory-
- 2 batteries (mostly full, I think)
- 1 flower pot, chipped but not broken
- string (not sure how long. It's pretty big)
- 1 ballpoint pen
- unbroken green glass bottle

I really like the bottle. I should go get flowers to put in it. If they're still alive in the vacant up the street. Mama likes little white flowers. I hear there are some near the train stop, but I don't like to go that far from home. I get tired walking home. I'm bored today, though. Maybe I can make a special trip, and then stay home and rest tomorrow.

It would be so cool to take one of those trains apart. I want to know how it runs, and why it makes all that steam. It'd be hard because the trains are so big, though.


At the bottom of the page, in letters that have been tortured into pseudo-elegant little curly-cues by the same unskilled hand that wrote the above, is added:
Quote:
If I had a wish I'd wish for two trains. One to have and one to take apart
PostPosted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 9:32 pm


Uzoma
Oh yeah, I guess I never wrote about what I did at the trainyard. Things have been busy.

I got over there just as the train was arriving, but I ran into this girl.... I dunno, she was kind of strange somehow, but I can't quite put my finger on it. I guess it was partly because she glared at me, but there was something else, too. I mean, I'm not usually to comfortable around anyone, 'specially when I run them over like I did that girl... but I said I was sorry and she just glared at me.

Oh well, gotta run. Some thugs down the street broke into a shop and smashed up some of the lights, so I need to see if I can fix them or make new ones

oneironym

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oneironym

Stubborn Strategist

PostPosted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 10:19 pm


(( reserved~ ))
PostPosted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 10:35 pm


Uzoma proudly surveyed his twin boxes of Curious Things. Well, alright, most of them were actually quite common, but all together, the boy surmised he could probably make just about anything he wanted. Maybe with a few extra parts.

Adding his latest finds to the collection, the boy slid the cardboard boxes back under his bed, and flopped down on top of the mattress. Then he bounced a little. Mum had always told him that bouncing on the bed messed up the mattress; Uzoma had immediately taken this to mean that, once he had bounced enough, the mattress would be useless as a mattress and he would then be able to take out all the springs.

Laughing a little to himself, he rolled a little on his bed. So many springs inside it... what could he make? Springs bounced like rabbits but curled like snakes. Hmm....

... ...

Could he make a rabbit? Or any animal? It would not die if it was made of pieces of his collection. If the batteries ran down, Uzoma could just find a new one, and the animal would be alive again. It would not have to be a sad thing, since his creature's death meant no sort of end, only another opportunity to get out and look for things.

An interesting thought. Uzoma rolled onto his back, folding his hands behind his head. It would take a lot of parts, but he was certain it would be fun.

To make an animal.....

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