"Residue"
Introduction
This story focuses on vestigial artifacts from a throwback
who emerges from obscurity. This is
a densely written manifold text which
conceals messages from a goal set long ago.
Turgid phraseology and languid smarminess deplete
the manuscript of complacency generating dogma.
English words that are excessively convoluted are
respelled discriminately, lending creative
erudition to an otherwise commonplace fiction.
An effort is made to preclude ubiquitous elocution,
however, the effort fails, dramatically at times, but always
with aplomb.
Chapter 1: An Embarkment
Vistas of unlimited horizontality assaulted the eyes
of the newly awakened child. Blinking away the
somnial remnants, she cannot envisage what the day
will not profer. But the stinging salts took their
toll for a moment, before receding into insignificance,
and allowing her attention to
return to the blurred visage. A
few blinks later, and Lois Wecker can see a hemisphere
of blue and yellow, stretching away into vague
infinitude.
Replete with gruntled expressions, Lois stretches
her appendages for a bevy of moments. Laxing
and relaxing, peatedly and repeatedly, she stretches
'gain and again. "Should I rise now, or just beam?",
she thought to herself. Rolling over the soft flaxen
fabric, she did not rise.
Myriad moments later she arose from her "crib", as
she liked to call it. What lay ahead for the day?
Lois remembered the canvas that was started on the
back porch, pale, with an unpromising wash of
burgundy acrylic stripes. The horizontality of the
lines sponded to the lay of the land about her, with
a bleak mixture of vast size and unending cipation.
Chapter 2: Gathering Icons
As she answered the door, Lois saw her father towering
over her at the brightly lit
Chapter 3: Remember the Things
Chapter 4: Left from the Past
Chapter 5: Coating the Inside
Chapter 6: The Gray and the Colorful
Chapter 7: When In Rome..
Chapter 8: Clearing the Way
Chapter 9: Taking Out the Trash
Chapter 10: Night Rises
Chapter 11:
Glossary
discriminately - the opposite of indiscriminately
somnial - relating to sleep
gruntled - satisfied, having given vocalized sounds
of comfort; the opposite of disgruntled
laxing - a primal state of forgetfulness and lack
of cares; loosly concious but undisturbed;
having slackened attentiveness. The state one
tries to return to by relaxing.
peatedly - adverbial form of peated; peated is the suffix-free
version of repeated. The
root word, peat, means to go towards, seek (Latin, petere).
Therefore, peatedly is a modifier of a verb, to which it lends
the quality of a desire to go toward a goal.
'gain
sponded
cipation - taking; taking place; taking part;
occurring; existing; perception of an occurrence
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