Short stories for your enjoyment.
Operation Code: Z
A story of Zombies by Bob Dingethal
Fort Vancouver Historic Reserve September 2010
“Eureka!” Captain Ed Johnson cried out. “I’ve discovered the average weight of the human soul!”
“Congratulations, Einstein! Five years of working on project working stiff and you find something you could have looked up on the internet in five minutes.” Responded his colleague Captain Arnie Charles.
Undaunted Ed walked toward Arnie hand raised for a high five, Arnie responded in kind. “You take the little victories where you can find them my friend.” He said smiling. Nearly half a Billion dollars worth of equipment and personnel, stuck in the bowels of this deserted base, we have to make the best of it.”
“I continue to be amazed that we still get funded. So what’s the answer Dr Frankenstein?”
“That’s Frankensteen to you ungrateful wretch, the answer, my friend is an average of 18 milliliters thereby confirming the MacDougal hypothesis.” Ed answered proudly.”
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Wicked Rain
By Bob Dingethal
Kyle sat staring out the window into the spreading darkness. The days didn’t seem to end anymore. The gloomy days simply merged into bleak nights. Tears streamed down his face in a slow cascade mirroring the tempo of the rain outside.
On either side of his desk he had a sunlight 365 lamp that supposedly gave off a healing light that mimicked natural sunlight. He awoke with the light in the morning and tried to fall asleep as it dimmed every night in an effort to repair his shattered sleeping rhythms. Vitamin D bottles, Lexapro and various homeopathic remedies were splayed out around the room in various stages of use or abandonment.
Kyle reached over to hold a picture of Tanya taken their first happy weeks in Vancouver. They were smiling brightly, fit and happy they looked like an advertisement from Sunset magazine showing the wonders of life in the Pacific Northwest. They were sitting on the top of Silverstar Mountain with their golden retriever Buddy between them. They were smiling in a way that only those completely in the moment can smile.