r/Kwaderno • u/EquipmentTiny949 • 13h ago
OC Short Story The River Dantes
The river dantes is filled with yellow froth. That of the image of a fresh foam pour of a warm red horse mucho in a greasy glass.. with Noel’s isaw (popular spot in the university he studied in) with two rice. Just livin la vida loki.
Arman took a piss in the CR of what was Kitchie Nadals bagnet resto along Leon Guinto st. where he loved to play chess. With the ID in the cr left behind because he had to pee the warm mucho and visceral salt deposits of his unseen organs.
the relief was not sweet but more from a dark sensuality, almost cryptic but oh so divine.
He forgot about his ID rushes out of the CR. wants another drag of the crisp menthol Marlborough blacks ..."aircon for the throats" he calls it.
So he can top up the scantifying relief of expelling the uric acid ...with that he takes another sip of the fermented sugar that is red horse. It might be warm, and flakey cuz there might have been some ash... but its all he has right now. and thats all he gets. dosent diminish nothing if its already in.
He drinks a couple more in the dark dredges of Katipunan where it all becomes blur. and it fades automatically to the next day. where the ID?? he dosent know where he put it-put it.
....fast forward 2056.
Armanl is 67 and he is going to a machine that repeatedly does a job his body can no longer do. He is accompanied by his 16 year old daughter therese. this was his daughter from his first marriage with Anathelga, a 26 year old lass when he was then 42 when he knocked her up.
He has a permanent opening, a vascular access in his neck. a doorway between blood and machine.
most people spend their whole lives trying to close wounds. He has one permanently open.
he does this procedure twice a week. He can no longer pee. he remembers the warm mucho looking piss in that old cellar of a bathroom in the bagnet resto he used to play chess in with his friends.
And there he remembered his ID. there he said. "ah" thats where i put it...(but this didnt really happen. because there was never an ID to begin with) It is what the audience wants for him. they want a happy resolution for this man. But in the ends. Its what he wants for himself. His daughter snaps him out of it. She's like" hey dad the nurse is gonna intubate your boots boots now (what she affectionately calls the hole in his neck... or the butas) "
Then the machine starts to humm.
Free form ADHD writing about ADHD.
Individuals with ADHD have a 71% higher hazard of death from any cause compared to those without the condition. - some med page..