Spring Evening Walk

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Written in response to: "Write a story about someone walking through a park on a spring evening, told only through internal monologue. " as part of Spring in Your Step.

 I’m so glad I got to get out of the house.  Doesn’t help matters to be stuck inside during this virus scare.  Nobody is out anyway. I’ll take the path through the woods to the park.  Getting a little cloudy out and I left my umbrella at home. Nice out though.  Look a that sky. I wish mom was here to see this. Should I go back for my phone?  Eh, it’s alright. Man that cool air feels good. Actually feels a bit like fall weather.  Someting familiar about it though. Mackinac Island; that’s right. Right at the end of season when everything cooled off.


     Wow it’s quiet.  All I can hear when I stop is silence.  But not dead silence like when the power goes out at home.  I notice an absent sense of no electricity but i can almost feel the natural energy around me.  I’ll have to remember that. Thank goodness it hasn’t rained yet. I just bought these black suede slip on shoes and I’d hate to get them muddy.  I should look down and pay attention to where I step though. I wouldn’t want to step into animal poop out here. I wonder where they are though. I don’t even see any birds.


     Let’s see.  My watch says I’ve been gone for about 5 minutes.  I should be there in about 10 minutes. Wind is kicking up a little bit.  At least I wore my hat. I sure miss my hair. (laughs) That was funny when the girls at work saw me take my hat off.  I thought they knew but that was awesome. I never heard someone gasp like that though (chuckles). I don’t know who said heat escapes out the top of the head more than anywhere else but I sure can tell when it cools off.  I wonder what kind of tree that one is going to be. The babies all grow so thick around the big ones. That’s interesting. Like babie cubs huddling close to their mom. Huh; never thought of it like that.


     I think I’ll collect some of these leaves from last fall.  I bet mom still wants me to do that mural in the dining room and I might be able to use these to make some stensils.  I wish Matt was here. I don’t know why when he didn’t get that second job that we didn’t just get back together. I really don’t think he broke up with me because of that.  Trying to save my feelings and stuff. I bet it was because I complained a lot about Terri complaining. I was gambling a lot too which probably made him uncomfortable. Stop worrying about it so much Nathan.  It is what it is.


     I really need to go to The Mission next week though. This coat has gotten a bit small and my arm keep going into the tears of the sleeves when I first put it on.  You can afford a few bucks; they’re pretty cheap. Wait; they probably closed down the shopping part though. Amy posted on facebook that people have to knock on the side door to food from the Pantry now.  I wonder if I message Lisa though. Come on Nathan. You have coats and they have more important things to do over there then try pick out a coat for you and run it out. Stop being selfish.


     

     Finally.  Looks like whoever cleans the place has been here already.  Not very many leaves and it’s clean. Let’s see here; watch says it took about 13 minutes.  I walk a mile in 20 minutes so that’s not as far as Mafia said. I swear to God he’s a drug dealer (hahaha).  I’ve never seen so many different cars come and go from the same place so often. That would be funny though. Here I am felony probation for my 4th D.U.I. and he’s over there possibly selling who knows what (hahaha).


     I wonder if I can fit on this horse thing.  If I fall off like that lady did in that video, nobody will see at least.  Better not though. I would hate to hurt my back right now especially since I can’t take anything.  They said ibuprophen isn’t good, if you get carona. Doesn’t reall help with anything but headaches anyway.  Wow, look at that. It’s darker on one half of the sky over there than here. That’s pretty kewl how it can rain on one side of the side walk not the other.  I better head back though. Last thing I need is to get wet and catch a cold. Amy will say I’m a cry baby (giggles).


     Amy’s pretty awesome.  She really does a lot for her family.  I wish they appreciated her more though.  Then again, she’s the one who tells them no and then let’s them get away with it.  I don’t know but I wouldn’t be letting my kids talk to me like they do. Mom and grandma didn’t play around either.  I can’t believe mom body slammed me that one time for play hitting her (laughs). She needs to get out and walk more too.  I wish she’d get out more often instead of sitting home and playing on her phone all day. She says she wants to lose weight but she doesn’t really try.  It’s an addiction though and there’s nothing I can really do about it.


     Thank God she didn’t come with me though.  Mom would have me picking up all these falling limbs and stuff for some odd project of hers.  It’s springkling already? I hope it’s not a storm coming. Clouds look like they’re starting to come in faster though.  I know we’re supposed to be trying to stay in as much as we can but it’s nice to go for a walk. I’m glad I talked myself into doing.  I keep telling everyone at 1016 how I have to do that like they’re told to. I don’t want to be lazy and then be bored. Next thing I know I’ll be on Grindr and it’ll be just my luck I get the one sick one on there.


     Well there’s the house.  If it doesn’t rain again in then next couple days I need to rake a bit more on left side of the house.  I wonder when I should put the hummingbird feeder out. Where do?; oh wait, mom said they migrate; that’s right.  Still, if spring is coming early maybe they will too. That’s a nice little walk though. I could probably take Rott out on it next time.  Alright, well I supposed I’ll let him out for a little bit and get some soup heated up. I’m glad I got outside today. That was nice.

Posted Mar 28, 2020
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David Lastinger
21:21 Apr 08, 2020

This was a great discussion with yourself. I would like to think that most of us have this same string of random thoughts all strung together.

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