Hello, and may you live for ever.
I was on patrol in the Jungle (Sarawak) fighting the commies (don't know why, they just sent me there) when I saw hiding in the greenery of the Rhododendron forest a giant Preying Mantis (only 4 limbs) with large compound eyes and a little snout, he was green. I pointed my rifle at him and he ran off. Later I must have had an injury, and in the Jungle clearing I woke to find several of these nice green giant insects tending to my and appearing to be sad. I don't remember any more.
They took to me a silver disk hovering nearby and took me into the sky. It was so nice I thought I'd stay there in the beautiful palace in the sky. They showed my mother reading the news "missing in action believed killed" and I saw her cry. I must return to her as she is so sad. So they beamed me to her side and I said "its all right mum its a mistake". She phone around and told her friends "its a mistake he's still alive".
I had to report back but the bullet in my heart meant I was no good in battle so I was allowed leave for treatment, they could not get the bullet out, I needed a new heart.
Well the giant insects are common in Sarawak and they came to eat my blood
they clustered round the entry would under my left shoulder where I had been hit
by a communists bullet (he fired first, the swine, another second the giant
insects would have got him...) but life’s not like that.
The went inside the hole and made be choke and came out of my stomach and in my
ear the peered and a couple got up my nose, I sneezed they jumped ah! a growing
at me (Oh that must be a leopard licking his chops, I wondered why my legs were
tingling they were running up and down singing "oh what a lovely corpse". The
cooing were those jackdaws picking the leeches three deep of my skin gorged with
blood before they got of to their brother have a taste. Well I suppose I must
have got up and those tasty big spiders were nice if you kept to the legs, the
best leeches to eat were those under the leaves but the frogs on top well I'd
avoid those and don’t those leeches make me sick, oh there’s one of those
jackals over there I better make sue he doest have me for lunch, those
parouquites (coloured birds) the look nice but the beaks are sharp and they want
their dinner. I think that’s a snake on the path I better step over there, oh
what that light in the sky, oh its a parachute flare I better not go that way,
and there is a machine gun somewhere, oh what side is the helicopter I'll get
inside a rhododendron bush unless an anaconda has got there first.
Pigs are nice for dinner but its best to cook them, I'm dying fact. Am I in
heaven yet where the giant insects give you tea? No golden palaces round here
only tangles of green stuff.
I think that’s our base...Oh here our deserter, where have you been "flying
through space with giant insects all round me..." I think he lying, well have to
shoot him" as the dragged me to the firing squad I kept being sick, They stopped
and said "I think he's sick" there is a lot of blood under he left shoulder, I
think he's hit.
Oh take him too the medic tent, oh he's hallucinating,
I said as I reached the gate "The American are coming" "There are men with
blond hair wearing space suits with strange beam weapon" "There in a green flat
round thing hovering as it comes along and the communist Chinese are falling
dead".
Don't talk rot, we are finished. "There is one over their".
The camp was surrounded by acres and acres of these communist Chinese, and when
we machined gunned them well it was like shooting turkeys as more come down
behind like there was no gun there.
The commandant came to the medic and said you must come and man the guns, "oh I'm sick", "no, you fit enough to man a gun" "got zero at the machine gunners test," "you can't miss if they are a yard away". Well all the medics were draped around their medicine chest all full of holes, so the dead men laying in bed were not hit, so we were volunterred.
"Only one left alive on the guns, throw off the bodies and use those three"
Well as we three dead soldiers fired our machine guns at the Chinese masses
they piled up the bodies over the barbed wire and they climbed up we elevated
our guns to get them as they came over. I wonder how many bullets it takes to
remove a Chinese man, does he have a family...Does he think of his mum? They act
like there is no gun there and march with set expressions and fixed staring eyes
and then crumple up as the carbine east their soul, do they care? Chinese don't
believe in heaven? Well I would not like to meet him there.
The other guns were draped with the bodies of the dead.
I said to the commander why we don’t call reinforcements, there all gone! The
radio is full of holes and the operator has just as many slumped over the box
and the accumulator acid is running into the ants drowning in the acid and
screaming as they die.
Well there is only 170 rounds and there must be 5 million of them and there are
only four of us, why aren’t those rounds reaching us? The Martians (Chinese
soldier) are over the pile and there’s no ammo and no anti-tank rounds. Oh
here's a rifle round...
Why did that tank round flash just outside the wire, Oh those Martians are
clawing at something that is not there.
One Martian spider got on top of the bubble of nothing that was around us and
tried to poke his bayonet through.
Were surrounded! We've got enough water for four cups of tea, let’s sit down and
wait for eternity.
We will have to use our Brahma weapon.
Jesus! give us a bomb?
Well a man used one the alien super weapon. A hand held rocket launched grenade
that launched a guided missile with a variable yield warhead with a power of
around 10E23 watts. He set the warhead (About 2 (?) Megatons) and pointed the
tube using the sight. The missile rose to the target over the flotilla and the
bright white fireball did the rest. He fired another round straight up “That
will be us” The officer said “The shield will protect us?” The jubilant men
found as the emerged from their slit trench and found the entire army of enemy
soldiers had volatilised and the tanks and ships were not there and the jungle
animals were toast, some dangling from the remains of trees. We walked rather
jubilantly scrunching over the charcoal jungle, until we reached the base
somewhere.
What happened?
No one will ever really know.
We were high and I could see thousands of communist ships stretching out to the
horizon. Then a wheel in the sky came down and more beside and the communist
tanks exploded one by one and as these communists reached the fence they came to
an invisible obstacle that they could not penetrate and they grouped with their
hands and stabbed with the bayonets but got no were, a communist tank fired
point blank into the camp, the shell exploded at the barrier then the tank
exploded.
We had no ammunition and I sat drinking some tea waiting to be hit, when's my
turn? And as I looked out to sea ship after ship exploded. There must have been
thousands of them. I wonder what happened next.
We used two, one for the fleet and the other for the Chinese army. The ships
exploded and the tanks blew up and Martians clawed at their clothes screaming to
get them off and burst into flame, fell and vanished.
We just sat drinking tea.
The rest is some else.
On the way back to the port over down the hill, the charcoal forest was filled
with Chinese soldier charred in the crouched positions as if waiting for nothing
that ever was there.
When we reached a town the houses were blasted but basically still there and
inside was the charcoal statues of people in their last position, a lady holding
a porcelain cup to her charcoal lips, a mother bending over the charcoal
daughter, lips puckered to kiss, charcoal baby in the cot, charcoal dog looking
alert.
Charcoal couples holding each other as if to talk.
A bent car squashed a bit and off the road, Charcoal people walking motionlessly
home from work with the children sort of near them looking up.
We got to the port and basically it was fully manned with charcoal people.
And there was a ship in the port but on its side with a big hole, "that’s not
gaping anywhere" I said "We’ve missed the boat".
We sat near the quay and a disk came out of the sky,
Welcome aboard. Take a seat. Here have some tea and cakes.
London airport please!
We touched down somewhere on the tarmac, and we were surrounded by people.
They’ve atom bombed Sarawak, Who, them, why, we has some trouble with 5 million
Chinese unwanted guests with big guns and flame throwers and tanks. Don’t worry
we are all dead, can you patch up some of the holes.
You won't find Sarawak on the map, if you do it isn’t there.
Can I go back home now to mum and some tea? And get on with a bit of normal
life.
I wonder what happened next? Well the rest of me life I suppose. I did things on
an off but the bullet and the psychiatrist really made a mess of things.
Jurassic Park,
Well I was taken there by the navy and landed, I had a walk, the charcoal people are their, but the modern life has been replaced, its quite peaceful, the dinosaurs there make noises like birds, the ferns are the ground cover and the lipidodendron trees and stigmaria forest, predominate the beaked dinosaur eats the nuts of the ginko and the duck billed dinosaur eats the ferns and there are other beaked types that eat the bark and twigs of other plants, the little chicken dinosaurs with hands instead of wings pecked insects. The reptiles are covered in brilliant plumage with crests and have ritual mating dances. I saw no coniferous dinosaurs and it seemed completely safe. There was not a trace of radioactivity above background.
When the all life was destroyed, the mammals did not lay eggs so they disappeared and the reptiles that were already present laid eggs and these hatched and since the angiosperms seed must not have been so hardy as the spores of the a gymnosperms the old life came back.
Chris.
24/12/2011