Buried alive? It's probably just some misunderstanding.
Buried alive? Or, it’s all just a big misunderstanding.
Eugene was often underestimated. It may have been as a consequence of his rimless spectacles, or it may have been that he wore brown socks. Indeed, you might have thought it was due to the way his hair would stick out at the back, or the way he did the straps up on his backpack ever so tightly. He was a slight fellow and had a penchant for unusual facts; at any moment he was likely to move from an unassuming character to an animated expression which would have the effect of making all his colleagues and strangers on the bus and family members and storekeepers and online acquaintances’ eyes glaze over.
But, it seemed to Eugene, that he was finally going to have a story that would interest other people. He couldn’t be sure how, but as he’d awaken that morning, he had found himself inside a buried coffin. As he attempted to look around, he could see nothing but blackness. He didn’t have to reason this through, the absence of light, he would be certain, was due to his being underground.
With a sense of admiration for his mind, he knew not to light a match. Of course, he’d seen this trick in the films from time to time and he knew that this gave the leading lady or man the opportunity to evaluate their strategic goals. Eugene knew, however, that in order to keep that light alive, he would put himself in a position where oxygen would feed the flame and potentially lead him to an earlier grave. He smiled at the pun he’d made, but then he admonished himself for the darkness of the quip. As luck would have it, however, Eugene was not known for carrying matches and he was certain that there were no boxes of them here with him in the coffin, and this was something that he counted as his own good fortune.
And it was about the time of that realisation that Eugene began to notice the silk lining of the coffin itself. He ran his hands through the fabric and the smoothness of the material made him feel calm, and oddly, quite luxuriated. It was a sad irony of life, he thought, that the silkworm, despite having eight pairs of legs and a beating heart, did not have lungs – a fact which most certainly would have supported their ability to live in the confines of the coffin; again he chuckled to himself. He supposed that the bug would in fact call this space a cocoon. Of course, he knew that the silkworm had holes along its body which allowed it to breath, and he was satisfied that this quirk of nature, despite being able to help him out of his dubious position, had become a welcome distraction.
And then he realised his error, his fingers were not touching silk, but rather, polyester. Eugene began his lecture, ‘As many people know, polyester is a cheap material which is water resistant, far more so than nylon’. It was an odd moment to feel satisfied, but Eugene could hear no one yawning, and felt his delivery of that interesting nugget was rather dynamic.
Eugene then shifted a little to the right and, while it would have been a natural curiosity to wonder how he’d found himself in this prison, he decided not to dwell on it for the moment. For many years he’d repeatedly come to the conclusion that people just didn’t really get him. He knew he was a bit odd and while his mother laughed at his jokes, he understood that his humour was ‘different’ to that of everyone else that passed through his life. Similarly, he also knew that he just didn’t ‘get’ others. And then he understood: all this must be some sort of laugh that he didn’t understand. He understood it was probably all some ruse that would cause another to giggle – a game, perhaps, where it was obligatory to play the good sport and perhaps even consider something self-deprecating to say following his release.
To that end, Eugene did what he imagined any reasonable person would do. He laughed in a good humoured way, said, ‘Jolly good joke’, in case anyone had put a listening device in the coffin and then he closed his eyes, certain a nap would fix everything.
But would it? Find our in Part 2 of this 3 Part Serial Fiction Challenge!
Well, now, I don’t think you’re going to find it difficult to acquire a horde of fans waiting (with bated breath, mind) for parts 2 and 3.
Your uniquely talented brain makes a mockery of all other penmen (persons. Haha) in the universe 🤗❤️💕❤️❤️🤗
Heya to my stylish friend; glad to have gotten you into Eugene's plight! All I need to is figure out what happens next!
AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH THAT MEANS ITS NOT ALREADY AN AMAZON BOOK FOR ME TO BUY IMMEDIATELY lolololol
Or to help guide where it should end up! ;)
consider me part of the horde!!!!!!! oh my gosh - LOVE THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Now I can understand how Eugene might be feeling, it's not really funny not to be understood by people and not to also understand people.
I'm still wondering what the true story is about the coffin seeing that Eugene had to say those words just in case it was all a set up. Incredible now I'm so waiting to see what happens next after or before his nap.
What an exciting story, I guess I will have to go read the other chapters to full understand it. I wonder who is at the back of Jimmy's truck.
Unkle seems like you and Jimmy have a lot in common, a truck and coffee, hehehe. I guess I will have to visit the other part next week 😂😁.
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Well, you've picked my next step. The polyester was the clue - I was googling coffins last week, and it turns out, cheap coffins have very thin mdf and a glued veneered. I imagined they would also have polyester, being cheaper, than silks. You could nearly punch right through them! Although, it would take a physics experiment to get the force and angles right, but hey - there's a Eugene moment waiting to happen right there! ;)
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Oh no this is one of my worst nightmares @lordtimothy. I am looking forward to reading the second part. Fortunately you are in my bingo card. I hope this story has a happy ending. I once saw a movie that totally took place with someone buried alive, but the ending wasn't very encouraging 😥😱.
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I don't want to miss part two for anything in the world.
And I have a similar fear, if we are still alive when they bury us. Prisoners in our on body.
Okay now I'm curious more about this Eugene
Can Friday just come so you drop part 2
Oh my! This is one scary joke if Eugene will think that too... Who jokes with a life in a coffin? Well, I can't tell what happens next.
Waiting to read the next part ❤️
A nap??? Who on Earth could nap in such a situation 😲😲😲😲
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Huuuuh! Inside the coffin, thinking, chuckling, evaluating.....!
Is this a metaphore?
The story is intriguing me to read further. I wanna know how he entered the coffin and what would happen after the nap.
I wonder how he is taking breath in that coffin 🤔
What a good story to read... I wonder who puts Eugene on the coffin 🧐 is someone playing a joke haha, I'm gonna read the part 2 later
This fellow is not one you meet every day. I find his weird sense of humor quite funny. I would panic and eventually suffocate myself. But not Eugene. He is weirdly smart.
Well done.
It's interesting how this Eugene has taken it so calmly. Anyone dies of a heart attack if he finds out they buried him alive, it must be terrifying. It will be interesting to see what happens with this friend and if he manages to get out of this with good. Excellent friend.