Saturday, February 1, 2025

Coffee with a Crazy Person

Prompt - Unrecognizable (200 words): Write a story from the perspective of someone who has woken up in a room or place they do not recognize.

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I struggle to consciousness against a slothful, sluggish brain. I really want to be awake.  

First I notice the sounds, which aren’t at all familiar. No Catty-kitty meowing for breakfast.  No sounds of subways or traffic honking. No neighbors slamming doors or stomping down the hallways.   

Instead, I hear the whirr of something … a computer fan, maybe?   I also hear chains clinking, moans, and muffled movements as someone bumps around a confined space.  I hear bubbling and someone scratching a pencil on paper. I smell…. coffee?

I open my eyes and find I’m in a darkened room.  I see a white-coated, wild-haired man sitting before a computer, taking notes. Next to him, a beaker is bubbling over a blue flame. I locate the moans - they are coming from a closet that is padlocked shut.  

I have NO IDEA where I am.  I remembered my friends convincing me to voluntarily swallow a roofie so they could give me a birthday surprise. Suddenly, that decision struck me as profoundly stupid.

I must have made a noise because the wild-haired man turned and leered at me. 

“Welcome to the Escape Room. Solve the clues to get out,” he says, handing me a cup of coffee.


-- March 11, 2020

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