FINAL VISIT WITH GREAT-GRANDMOTHER
(by Alan P. Hicksey)
The guy on the bus turned around and gave Robin a smirk. She tried to
hold it to her mind on why this man was doing this but she could not readily
understand the consequences at hand. She only knew that he had been taunting
her all the way up to Bloomasis, California and now she was getting quite
perturbed by his illicit actions. She gave him the finger and he quickly
turned back around. Robin was always one of those people to stand up and be
brave no matter who was in her way. She wouldn't let this reject of man taunt
with her mind or her inner being. She had bigger fish to fry.
She was on her way to Bloomasis to visit her sick great-grandmother.
Robin knew her great-grandmother was soon to die as everyone else did. The
last time she saw her great-grandmother was on Channel 4 during the weather
segment. It was picture of her and underneath the picture read "113". How
could someone live that long? Robin always admired her great-grandmother
because she also didn't take crap from anyone else. She was the closest thing
to Robin and now she was dying. Robin looked out the window and saw the huge
"Bloomasis" sign. She was only ten minutes away. Ten minutes away from the
final moment with her great-grandmother. Robin was thinking of the time her
great-grandmother had sex with an oxen and...
"You sure are pretty, ma'am," said the man who blasted her thoughts
away.
"Why don't you just leave me alone?" pleaded Robin. "What the hell
is your f*cking problem, sir?"
"I just want to love you in a way that you have never been loved
before. I want to make love to you like a man would another man."
"But I'm not a man," said Robin who couldn't believe that she was
rationalizing with this lunatic on the bus.
"I'm sorry," said the eighty-three year old man, "you are the most
beautiful thing I've ever seen in my whole entire life."
"No I'm not and leave me alone," said Robin.
The man turned around again and ignored her. Robin always had men
come up to her and try to hit on her. It was a curse to be beautiful. It was
a curse to be twenty-eight years old, one hundred and five pounds, and quite
big on the top. She once got an offer to model in this new magazine called
"Death Models" but she turned it down when she found out that they took
pictures of women in uncompromising positions and situations.
The bus stopped at the curb and Robin got her suitcase and marched
towards the door. She couldn't move towards the door, though, because two
midgets drinking milk blocked her way.
"Get out of my way," she said to the two midgets.
"My name is Faldar," said midget one.
"My name is Stephanopolous," said midget two.
"I really don't care if you're the king of France," said Robin, "I have to get off this bus."
"Are you kidding miss?" said Faldar. "This is not a bus, this is a
mental institution and you're trying to leave."
"No I'm not!" she screamed. "Stop messing with my mind and get me off
this damn bus!" She screamed again and kicked the two midgets in their heads
and ran towards the exit of the bus. The bus driver grabbed her thighs and
tried to subdue her.
"What are you doing?!" she screamed.
"You are not going anywhere!" said the bus driver.
She inspected the bus driver closely and realized it was not the same
bus driver who picked her up. This was a different bus driver. She looked
around and she didn't recognize any faces on the bus. She never saw the two
midgets before and the man who had been talking to her wasn't there. She
wondered what was happening.
"You have the answer," said the bus driver.
"Wha...wha...what are you talking about?"
"You have the answer to the sixty million dollar question and we need
it now, Martha."
"My name is not Martha!"
"Yes it is," said the bus driver, "and you know that if you don't
answer the question we'll have to keep you here and you will have to live with
us forever in our warped world of human dementia."
Everyone walked closer to Robin and all of them stared at her. She
couldn't take it anymore. She unleashed from her purse, her sub-machine gun
and mowed down everyone on the bus to their grizzly deaths. She kicked open
the door and fired on the crowd who had been witnessing the event. She
screamed and kept running and shooting and running and shooting. She lost
sight her mission to see her dying great-grandmother. She didn't even know
who she was at that moment. She just kept running and running and shooting.
The police lined up and fired their shots into her. Robin felt something hit
her womb and then her right arm and then her chest. She told herself it was
just internal pain and kept firing. She realized at this point on she had no
more bullets and she was just firing blanks. The screams from all around her
got louder and the sirens became maddening. She looked down and saw holes in
her body and saw more holes appearing as if they were covering her body. She
looked around and saw her great-grandmother holding a glass of water in her
right hand and chicken with molasses in her left hand.
"Great-granny!" screamed Robin.
"Robin," said her great-grandmother, "you've been a bad girl. I must
tell you the truth before you die, though. I'm not your great-grandmother.
Do you remember when I was having sex with that oxen and you caught me. Well,
well...that was a female oxen."
Robin's great-grandmother pulled up her dress and Robin realized she
her great-grandmother was not wearing any underwear. What Robin saw almost
drove her to the point of madness where no one returns. Before Robin could
conceive of what her great-grandmother was trying to tell her, she drew her
last breath and fell.
The policemen and policewomen gathered close to her to make sure that
she was dead. Robin's great-grandmother screamed and fainted her head dead
upon the pavement...
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