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Black Fantasy

Written in response to: "Write a story with a color in the title." as part of Better in Color.

We’re all fuck ups. Some just hide it better than others. Some of us have autism some of us have had strokes heart attacks Alzheimer’s dementia this place is the alphabet soup of disabilities. ADHD. TBI. SDH. AD etc.

Some of us were multi disabled, which is a bitch. Imagine somebody with bipolar disorder also having Alzheimer’s, and you have a nightmare or rather a bigger nightmare, and they have a compartmentalized when possible. They don’t think I know, but I do those of us with blue tags have autism those with us with red tags have TBI’s those of us with green tags have ADHD etc. if people have multi disorders, they put multiple colors on them or combine the colors whichever is easier all of us are folders. Nobody knows what’s in the folders except our names are on the panels of the folders. Remember, they’re called manila envelopes. I’m not sure what they’re called but everyone in this place has one of them with their name on it and I’m one of the few who knows that I pay attention to the details. I read the writing on the wall one of the view here who can read kind of. We could try to sneak into another hall with a different color, but that wouldn’t help anything. We wanted to get out most EMTs know that no one wants to go to the hospital. I’d rather just be OK most people who are in hospitals want to get better and get out and get home, especially kids. No kid wants to spend their time in the hospital. I looked down at my Color and it hasn’t changed not sure if that’s good or not, but it is a fact what if they change it to black when we die I look down at my feet and I’m wearing shoes which is good. I look again in the shoelaces are still in which is excellent. That means they have not transitioned me to the psych ward. I don’t know if things are color coordinated there, but I doubt it go to this color for drugs go to this color for Suicide go to this color for they only shouldn’t amount of colors at humans can see women can see more colors than men in all species. I don’t wanna be here, but I’m not allowed to get out unless I go AMA, which would be crazy. I wonder if I’ve been Baker acted because I don’t remember coming in here or who brought me here or anything and I know I’m not on drugs cause I can think clearly or clearly with my conditions

I have GOK I’m sure the reader has never heard of that but look it up online. Ask ChatGPT if it knows what it stands for. Maybe we’ll be surprised. If you dig deep enough, it should tell you. But I wonder if there are any rainbows here meaning somebody who has all these conditions I look down again at my color. It’s the same color. Nothing has changed the difference between paint and light is color combination make all the light colors together and you’ll get white mix all the pink colors together and you get brown. Wonder what happens if we mix our colors together we’re going to a section that isn’t our color.? maybe it’s for insurance purposes they different colors now instead of coding? Maybe they eliminated all the numbers not sure if that’s a good thing they probably haven’t though that would be too complicated machine of taking that over the machines. Decide what color we get to or leave that to humans?

Is that colorblind or blind I know what’s going on sort of. I can speak a lot of people here can’t I can read a big fish in a small pond. Maybe I’m just a fish out of water.

Go into the ward there’s a lady before the hallway with our room sign it ask her if she knows what’s going on. She smiles and says yes NAS her why we’re giving these different colors who made them do it she just smiled and said she’s not authorized to tell me that that either means she is an authorized other than that. Her supervisors told her not to talk about that or she’s lying and she doesn’t know anything. I’m betting on the ladder western Society believes in reductionism divide divide eastern culture believes in holism. Remember the story about the three blind men and the elephant? Fish out of water is somebody sane in aninsane world or somebody insane an world. What happens if there’s just water and what happens if there’s just fish and what if they never combine I go back to my room looks like a college dorm room small bathroom small shower little bed. They think they know what’s wrong with me and maybe they do but misdiagnosis happen MA I’m not the average color.

The doors are locked for the may as well not be because in the case of an emergency they have keys to all the doors I know what’s wrong with me, but I don’t know what’s wrong with the staff. Some of them are obvious like they’re overworked, underpaid and tired, but some of them it’s not.

The student has become the teacher or in my case the patient has become the doctor. I have great hearing when they’re eating lunch in the side. I hear what they’re saying to each other. Kids having trouble in schools arguments with spouses not sleeping stomach problems. The only one that’s perfect is God and according to a book I read.” God is the color of water.” the one with God should be in.? probably the psych ward right for creating us people with free will. Maybe there is a formula about how things work in the world in the universe and everything but I don’t think it’s “ 42.”

Posted Apr 24, 2026
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