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The F(r)iend in the Mirror
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The mirror was reflecting the parchement and I could actually read it....it had been a mirror image all along!
The F)r(iend in the Mirror
He sat unobserved
Just out of sight
In the corner of the mirror
that sees almost no light ...
He waits the long wait
every day every month and year
the best is when it is dark and late
the time of horror mistrust and fear
If you are faint of heart
this secret will tear you apart
but if you are brave and bold
Look in the mirror and do as told
After reading it ,I thought that it was some kind of prank and decided not to look into the mirror . Then I went back to the shop where I bought the strange book . I wanted to return the book in exchange for some other book. But the shopkeeper did not accept it . I guess he didn't acccept it because he felt that no one else would buy the book. So, I went to my home , an old garage which was abandoned because a fire broke out there a long time ago. I sat down and then decided to look into the mirror as I didn't have any other work to do. I opened the book and looked into the mirror.
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I stared into the mirror from all possible angles. I tried it in daylight, under candle light and even under moonlight. Nothing! Not one damn thing!
I was rattled! I guess it was my expectations ! I had a feeling of extreme betrayal ....of a promise unfulfilled....
I tossed the book onto the sofa and crashed down on the mattress beside it. It was 2 a.m. and I had to be up by 7! Madness! What a colossal waste of time!
Sleep evaded me , a slimy beast that I couldn't grab at. I tossed and turned anger mounting, frustration doubling now that I was being denied my sleep too!
I snatched up my walkman and plugged in my earphones. I shoved them into my ears and hit Play! Linkin Park's Breaking the Habit almost threatened to break my eardrums...but the sheer intensity of the music slowly calmed me down....
BEEP BEEP BEEP! What the heck!!!! Ouch it was 7 am already! When did I doze off ?! My left ear ached for having slept on my side with my earphones. Coupled with my unshaven face I looked like a drug addict, terminal patient and concentration camp survivor all at one go!
I rushed through my morning essentials and was finally in front of the dresser combing my hair looking at my reflection mechanically. I suddenly burst out, " WHAT?" at my own reflection and almost fell back at the sight of my own scowl. "So what am I supposed to do?" I asked of myself and this time I detected a faint smile in the mirror! Was I smiling? Was it a true reflection of me myself? Was the smile a figment of my imagination and fatigue? OR HAD THE BOOK UNLOCKED SOMETHING SINISTER???!
Apprehensive, I tried to be brave and told myself it was just my imagination or some trick of the light. Trying not to look into the mirror at my reflection and lose my new found courage, I decided to hang out at the local bookstore. But even the damp, musty smell of books could not distract me. I looked through a few books but then ditched the plan and decided to call it a day. Just as i was exiting the bookstore, I caught a glimpse of my reflection in the window of a parked car.....
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On the brink of losing my sanity all I could do as I put my car into reverse was repeat to myself in a bare whisper, "No! No! No! Quit imagining! It's a bloody reflection you idiot!"
The mind is a strange thing and circuits and circuit breakers function based on its whim not necessarily on scientific and logical reasoning...before I could turn the wheel completely and get going forward, I caught myself answering my whisper but in a voice that seemed alien to my throat leave alone my ears!!
"OH YEAH?!,Just like that eh?! Call me out and leave me DaaaNGliNG!!?"
I almost broke my ankle with the force of stomping on the brake. The car squeeled and careened a bit as it skid to the curb. Luckily there was no one else around at that moment. What the hell was happening to me?
I tried to think of some logical way to explain all this. Maybe, this was a prank, one of those unbearable stupid ones that are shown on MTV. Yes, that was it, someone's trying to make a fool of me.
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I tried starting the car again , it wouldn't start.... I pushed the car with all my might and slowly pushed it towards the side of the road . There was a silence all around - not a silent type of silence .... This was something unusual . I grabbed the book in my arms and stood on the middle of the road . I placed the book there and took out my pocket lighter. Before setting the book on flames, I decided to take a stone and smash / crack the mirror . Just when I was about to slam the stone onto the mirror .. I heard a honk of a car and as a reflex I jumped back . The car had gone on the book and surprisingly the mirror didn't crack . I peered inside the mirror again and to my surprise I saw the word "syzygy" in the mirror ...........
....you wudn't beleive it, my eyes beheld the energizer bunny. It kept asking me to come in and join him. Finally, I sighed and closed my eyes and jumped. My body began to shrink and when I opened my eyes, I was staring at Alice's face. I thought, this must be Wonderland. A few minutes later, I heard a noise.....
The noise was high-pitched and a ringing type of noise in my ears . I couldn't bear the noise. It have me a splitting headache . I noticed that I had the book in my hands . I quickly opened it and the word "syzygy" still remained and when I looked deeper into the mirror , there was an image of some sort of planet similar to earth . There was a sun and a moon and they were perfectly aligned to the planet similar to earth. Now , it all started making sense . The term syzygy and the image .I tried closing the book but it wouldn't close . The noise drew closer to me and I was petrified . The next thing I know is being pulled into some thing by a strong force like a vacuum . It was quite a long and uncomfortable journey . The flexibility of my body was really put to test. I was being pulled , squeezed
And finally landed on something soft and smooth like a pillow . For a moment I was disoriented . I began to collect my senses and there on the soft thing on which I was sleeping was a seal of some sort which read in a mix of Italian and English Krónòs pieace authoritie... And what I was lying down on was not a pillow but a
Soft toy of some sort ... it looked like an animal but the toy was torn and had some soft material oozing out. Then slowly I observe the surroundings . The whole place was like a burn out forest. Charred and skeletons of some creature all around the place . It looked like a war had broken out . I tried getting back home to earth but the book wouldn't let me open it . It looked like it had latched itself close. I decided to explore
this deathlike area. Vultures were dropping out of trees and killing rats which were on the ground. I shut my eyes. Suddenly, I felt a tapping on my...
.....ankle. I looked down to find a creature similar to a rat but was standing erect and was tapping and pulling my trousers . I tried to shoo it away but it was relentlessly tugging on my trousers . I bent down and I figured out that it was trying to tell me something. Unfortunately the language was unfamiliar and too fast to try and understand ......
but I finally figured out through his actions that he waanted to take me home. One problem, he lived under the rock. Luckily, I had some fairy dust. I put it on my shoulder and like magic I began to...
.....shrink down and go inside . Inside was a huge place. I went to the dining room and started gobbling the good placed there .... I could still feel the tugging . I realised that I was in a day dream because of my hunger . I tried following the dream and searching for fairy dust . But all I had in my pockets was normal dust and not fairy dust . The creature then pushed a small latch underneath one of the boulders there and a secret passage opened up ..,, when I peered inside I could see a who town there , bright in colour filled with happiness , the people there were a bit similar to humans and surprisingly the houses there were walking . I could see the people from inside controlling the houses and the robotic legs were slowly moving step by step . The. The house just began to settle down there without even a tremble of the ground . I was impressed by their control and expertise in technology . I was simply innovative . I told myself "I got to get me one of those" .........
I, THEN REACHED INTO MY BREAST POCKET WHERE I KEPT FAIRY DUST IN WHICH I CUD USE ONLY IN AN EMERGENCY AND TOSSED THIS DUST AT A PINK HOUSE. THE NEXT THING I KNOW IT, THE RAT WAS PUSHING ME INSIDE THIS PINK HOUSE AND MADE ME SIT AT THE CONTROLS. I PRESSED A BUTTON AND THE HOUSE BEGAN TO...
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DEEEEP BREATHS!! COMposeeee
The last vestiges of my rational mind clamored for attention....come on now...let's shift time back by a moment ...
I, then reached into my breast pocket where i kept fairy dust in which i cud use only in an emergency and tossed this dust at a pink house. The next thing i know it, the rat was pushing me inside this pink house and made me sit at the controls. I pressed a button and the house began to dissolve like in bits and blobs like an old celluloid film. a burning bit drifted off from the mess and swirled towards me. I watched petrified as I simultaneously felt somet5hing or someone bite deep into my folrearm. I kicked and trashed as I felt a dark veil descend over me as I was slowly , completely and miserably engulfed.
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I woke up..
I WOKE UP
Yeah yeah you too
I WAS IN A HOSPITAL
There was a nurse seated ne3xt to me. I asked her,"Where am I?" She was all alert as she got up and walked towards me her pocket torch ready in hand as she started testing all my reflexes while replying'"You were in some sort of a car accident. No one was hurt though, nor was your car damaged except that all the windows and mirrors had cracked. The authorities were perplexed as to how safety glass could get that badly crackled up without shattering and are looking into it. Now wriggle your toes for me"
WRIGGLE YOUR TOES?!!
I wriggled my toes as she made a few entries into my hospital chart at the footend.
I was tickled pink that I cud wiggle my toes. However, when i stopped wiggling them; i suddenly couldn't breathe. I looked at the nurse and she began to call for help.The last words I heard Diana say was pls get a doctor to another nurse. Then everything went black and I heard...
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sraaaatch scraaatch bump , scraaaatch scratch bump - through the haze of my dream the sound of the record player tone arm stuck on the record invaded my mind with the same irritating intensity as any normal morning alarm. I wanted to get up , smash the thing to smithereens and get back to my cozy heaven. I was suddenly sharp, alert and awake ! I HAD NO RECORD PLAYER!!!And this was the HOSPITAL !!!!
scraaatch, scraaatch, scratch... the sound grew louder in tune with awareness and awakening almost as if it was beckoning me...
Something really weird was going on in my mind . I screamed asking the doctor to help me .... The doctor immediately rushed in and injected some anaesthesia . The next thing I know ... I was awake in a different room and I was feeling much better . The doctor told me that there was some type of brain eating parasite in my brain which was making me see things . He told that it was a rare parasite and that he could successfully remove it .
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Not you again!
WAKE UP! MENTALLY THAT IS! LOOK AT YOUR 'DOCTOR'S EYES'
I took a closer look at the doctor who was describing the intricate manner in which he planned to mess around in my head to empty it of parasites! What a joke! ....but wait!!"" The doctor's pupil wasn't looking right..
There! The doctor's Iris was like a pulsatile organism or a mouth for want of a better description. Once in every 9 seconds it'd become a slit before changing back to a regular circular pupil. His wrists seemed a bit large an the knuckles were overly large. There was dirt or something else stuck in his thumbnail...yikes! What has happening?
Immediately I got up and ran out of the hospital . When I went outside it was a whole new and different world and when I turned back the hospital was no longer there .
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There were puddles everywhere.
PUDDLES!!! HA! HA! TAKE A CLOSER LOOK MORON!I heaved a mental sigh as I had grown accustomed to complying to that unrelenting voice in my head...
COMPLYING?!! YOUR HEAD!! GIVE ME A BREAK!
Ignoring the voice for once I bent closer to take a look at the nearest puddle.
Unlike the rest of the sepia world around me, the puddles were in COLOR!
Peer CLOSER MORON! Prompted the voice in my head....
I did and almost fell back as a deep sense of vertigo made me nauseous. I could make out the parking lot and the edge of the hospital in the puddle...like a porthole to an alternate dimension
I decided to jump into the colorful puddle-just like Mary Poppins jumping into the picture. I felt myself being transported to the parking. A car stopped in front of. I had to wipe my eyes twice, was I DREAMING FOR AT THE DRIVERS WHEEL WAS...
The brain - parasite doctor . He immediately recognised me and was coming towards me with a knife . I started to run away in the opposite directions . The road was not a metalled road and there were no vehicles . I continued running and after sometime I turned back . The doctor was not in sight so I went to the side of the road and hid in a few bushes
A car stopped in front of my hiding place. Out of the car emerged my tearful mom. I was elated. Now I thought my life would be normal again. To my surprise, I heard her yell for the doctor,
"Beatrice is hiding in that bush..."
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Before I could even think of any sane reason for my Mom's behavior and strange statement I felt hands snatching me out from the bush. I had been caught unawares by the doctor's orderlies dressed in what strangely looked liker mental asylum whites.
Shock, fear and anguish had robbed me of my voice as I turned towards my mother. A chill ran down my spine as I noticed there was just the doctor and a lady who under normal circumstances could have been descibed as a very very attractive blonde. Before I could stiffle my yell I noticed one last thing before the yell became a scream of terror ...for a brief moment her eyes dialect, became slits and she metamorphosed briefly into my Mother and My Maths teacher before turning back into her blonde self.
Terror had me adrenalized. Something was wrong, Very Wrong!
Either I was going Insane with a capital I or there was something going on that reeked of evil. It suddenly dawned upon me that the voice in my head was silent! Was it that I was probably in some sort of dimension the Voice had wanted me to be in? Something that the Mirror had hinted about?
We were on a desolate highway heading out to a destination unknown. I was in a straight jacket in the back of the vehicle that was a cross between an hearse and a police car - it had the space and the partition but had the smell of death about it. I settled into being silently observant as I coiunted off miles with the vanishing stripes of the highway behind me as I gazed through the rear window.
Where was I going? We were in the country. Suddenly, the car took a quick turn. We entered a desolate farm and the smell of death was unbearable. The car stopped and then I saw a different doctor, He was standing near the horse barn and looked like a mini Einstein...
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Then I noticed his eyes. They looked like my mothers. Cud he be on drugs? The next thing I noticed were his sharp,pointy fingernails. For some reason, I walked closer to him. Then"mini Einstein" shouted my name and held his fingernails as if I hurt him...
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MORON!
Yikes! I thought I was rid of you!
WHEN DID YOU EVER HAVE LONG HAIR????!!
It dawned upon me, as a shiver ran down my spine, that in the world of these wierdos I was Beatrice and for some strange reason a girl and not a guy!
Just then a few drones flew overhead . the others ran out of there and I told myself I got to get back to my original form . So, I followed a path which was leading towards the city . On the way I could hear sobs from the trees . It sounded like a girl crying. I followed the noise to a stream and there I saw a girl with hair cut to resemble the hairstyle of a boy . From a distance I asked her what happened and she looked up . What followed was .. My body began shivering . The girl looked like me . I figured out that she was Beatrice . She immediately started shouting at me and began to pull my skin away . It started paining . The skin was stuck onto me . It was like both of us had our bodies interchanged when we were going through the time-space continuum.We started talking . She told me that her full name is Beatrice Jennifer and asked me to start calling her Jennifer ................................
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NERD ALERT!!!!
The voice was right; anxiety brought out the nerd in me.
" My FRIENDS call me Jennifer!!!" She answered, her voice indicating angern anguish and irritation
She, (who looked like a he).... Was looking at something with keen attention. It was a mountain far away , it had a scary look to it . There was a small light which was blinking in regular intervals coming from the mountain . At first it looks like sparks . But later I realised it was something like a light house . The lighthouse was very oddly placed . It was towards the land an not on top of the mountain . I asked Jennifer "What is it" suddenly she looked away and told "Notginf meesa nota look at anyhingd " her voice was changing , it was no longer like a human's but a voice going out of the pitch. She then turned away and she started clearing her throat , from the back it looked like she had put her hand inside her mouth and was making peculiar sounds . Then when she turned towards me she asked "What are you waiting for ? Let's get moving . We gradually started walking. I noticed that we were walking in the opposite direction . She scolded me for questioning her and she told " I KNOW WHAT I am Doimgnd ! " . The voice changed again . Now I asked her : Who are you ? She replied I am Jennifer . Again i asked her : Where do you come from ?
"The triangle of The Mudaber" / "the Mudaber triangle "
I asked her where we were . She replied we are on "Thear" the 3rd planet in the ilkym galaxy .
The ilkym yaw galaxy , she repeated ....
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In the meanwhile my mind was racing.
There was a mention in Science Unexplained last year that mentioned that there was a hypothesis that most ships and planes that had vanished over the Bermuda Triangle had one thing in common.
They all had 609z bearings from the DGK factory of Berlin.A confidential report located amongst the factory R&D documentation revealed the addition of a non Earth metal recovered from Meteorite X2 in the high performance bearing shells.
The hypothesis was that the electromagnetic energy created by the motor windings acting on the Antemortium (Am669 the element from the meteoit I mentally told my 'voice in the head')resulted in a tractor beam formation over that particular longitude and latitude yanking objects either forward or backward in time or based on the Matilda Equation to position X in the Cerius galaxy that probably had Earth's twin.
"How did I get to Thear, the real Jennifer asked?""Remember, dodo, u jumped into the mirror, the B-Jennifer snappily retorted.
"How can I get back to earth? I miss it," Jennifer tearfully uttered?
"That is easy...just talk to...
.......You know what ... At the top of the mountain near the lighthouse .
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We were still all riled up and confused , but the steady purr of the engine and the desolate highway was slowly calming us to a calm state of acceptance.We'd even got our IDs straightened out and were communicating in broken bits of conversation
" Kay!" She suddenly yelled, " waaaaatchout!!"
I heard the sickening sound of metal cracking up. We had just hit "mini-Eistein's" car."Kay, are u all right? Where's Jennifer and B-Jennifer?
Who are you calling Kay I asked Jennifer . She replied : you were te one who told your name is Kay right . I clearly remember the sentence too : " My name is Steve Kay" . No no no I shouted I told " My name is Steve okay , NOT KAY" . So , I don't want you referring me to the name Kay. It brings back ..... Never mind ......
"When did u become Steve? When I was in grade school, I use to be a tomboy. My name shud have been Johnny instead of Jenny. Kay...I mean Steve were u a tomboy?"I waited and waited for a response, but nothing. Instead the body began to change into "mini-Einstien"...
It was one of those typical Sundays, me casually loitereing around old book stalls. As if drawn to it by some compelling force I was drawn to a dull glint in the middle of a pile of paperbacks. Closer inspection revealed a very peculiar specimen.
It was the size of your average Reader's Digest but was shaped like one of those double sided gilted photo frames that newly married couples receive as gifts by the dozen. On opening it the left revealed what must have been a perfect mirror, now all cracked with its silver faded and tarnished. The right had what looked like an old parchment made worse by what looked like a case of bad water damage. I was hooked!
The shopkeeper looked relieved that someone could actually want the thing but true to his trade he kept haggling over the price till I finally coughed up a hundred for it. I picked up a mirror from one of the street vendors as it looked liked the perfect size for me to work as a replacement for the faded one.
I'd lost all interest in lunch as I sat down with a tin of brasso and some cotton waste and a polish cloth as I started getting some of the grime off and some of the shine back. The frame now had a regal and antique look about it making me confident the hundred was well spent. The mirror would require me to do a bit of extremely careful prying, so I decided I'd do it later. The parchment had me intrigued as I couldn't make out the language at first...
rorriM eht ni dnei(r)F ehT
devresbonu tas eH
thgis fo tuo tsuJ
rorrim eht fo renroc eht nI
... thgil on tsomla sees taht
tiaw gnol eht stiaw eH
raey dna htnom yreve yadyreve
etal dna krad si ti nehw si tseb eht
raef dna tsurtsim rorroh fo emit eht
traeh fo tniaf era uoy fI
trapa uoy raet lliw terces siht
dlob dna evarb era uoy fi tub
dlot sa od dna rorrim eht ni kooL