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January 17, 2006

January 17, 2006

Your surprise birthday party turns out to be VERY surprising.

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It had been a long night. Since it was my birthday today, I hadn’t minded spending the night with those “buddies” from Xylon-7. They were quite hospitable, as usual, it’s just that I tend to “forget” certain parts of the night after a few rounds of Driamian ale.

Like the time they probed me, just to make use of that Earth-cliché. I didn’t remember it until the video was playing on the main view-screen in the office a week later. Ha-ha… very funny.

Only Xylon knows what “fun” event from last night will turn up on the view-scren next week!

Posted by: Jim S at January 17, 2006 7:01 AM · Permalink

Twenty of us, in place, faces beaming.
Keys rattle, the door swings, lights blaze – “SURPRISE !!!!”

We’re barely noticed.

He stumbles past the guests toward the kitchen muttering something about a “birthday sandwich”. He reeks of cheap booze.

In awkward silence the guests begin excusing themselves.

Plans lovingly made - destroyed.
1000 promises broken – drowned in a bottle. Again.

My face flushes. My humiliation traps my words inside.
I begin passing out coats.

I already feel the bruises I’ll have, if I stay.

I take my own coat from the closet, and follow the stragglers out.

I never looked back.

Posted by: kasac at January 17, 2006 10:30 AM · Permalink