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Uamak's Aquatic [suspense: now in Spanish and English]By: Dennis SilukArticle Word Count: 2638 words [Comments (0)] Total Views: 50 Views |
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Delicately, my mind was selecting a muffled tune, out of the dead dark empty space surrounding me… I saw a shape on a rock, not sure who it was; I had a sensitivity though, a feeling call it, or second-sight; I’ve heard that before, not sure if I want to put a lot of credence into it, but so be it, the sensitivity and numbness was there. I didn’t’ sense any danger in the moment, in the moonlit figure, sitting on the rocks, lurking, looking out into the deep. I did get an awareness of cramps in my stomach though, like centipedes nibbling at it—from all corners—at the pink and red flesh of my internal organs, stinging their poisonous little fangs into them. I stumbled about in the thick foliage, lost in its prickly overgrown wild plants and mud, and god knows what else; in corollary, I came to the edge near the sea, over looking the aquatic, edge of the cliff, it was many years ago since I had been here. I zigzagged through the last of the bushes, carefully now, it was the rim of the cliff, and then got I into a clearer opening. I could only hear the noises of shifting waters now—the waters below me, as clattering waves hit, and splashed against the overhang—the sea cliffs, directly in front of me. It was but a few seconds after dark, behind twilight, yes indeed, it had disappeared, swallowed up by an agitated night. Inscrutability always appears to bring with it a limitless amount of threat, does it not? A rhetorical question at best, sure it does, and that figure on the …the tide was becoming more calm, the rocks were mammoth, and overlooking the sea, jagged and with fangs. The wind gentle over head, not like a few minutes ago, I mean it just unexpectedly evaporated. As I was about to say, the shape, silhouette on the huge rock, is still looking into the sea; it is like he is locked into a trance, or that I am but a worm to him, and too insufficient for him to pay any attention to me. He seems to be talking to himself, or perhaps some sea monster, just kidding—but he’s talking to someone, something, and his head is pointed downward, down, down toward the sea. Save for the fact I am not in an illusion. A fishing boat, no, no just a vessel of some kind, not sure why I said fishing boat, how do I know, it has lit, a light on its deck, I suppose it’s a deck, it is far off in the distance. I walked now, aimless I think, can’t see much in front of me, lest I end up in the sea on top of that damn monster I can’t see, only to find out it is real. Oh well, some shadows just left the moon a bit more exposed, but it gave me a little light. In September it is chilly here, I swear that stature has something to do with this mysterious evening. Here off the coast of … my bones are chilled. If you were to ask me: ‘…what are you doing out here?’ I couldn’t tell you, I’d not have the answer, ‘doing out here,’ what? Maybe that figure on the rock knows—he must be but a hundred yards from me now; perchance I’ll find out soon enough, and so will you. I mean it is night, but not all that late. Conceivably I was drawn out here. I was visiting a friend, you could say, but only after I arrived. So what provoked me to take this little trip (again)—your guess is as good as mine. I have been to places around the world that seems to draw on a persons soul, agitate his pulse to the point he has to or he goes into—and ends up at, wherever he does—in this case here. “Aye, good Master,†I heard (a mumble) “…take the lot as it is…†this is what echoed back to me, the wind, yes the wind pushed it back into my ears from the spot where that unfamiliar person is, that figure on the huge rock looking, just looking into the–what I assume, the sea, a black hole in the sea, yes indeed, that is what he is doing, looking into a black hole into the sea, for some odd reason, I can see that now, or could, it just faded away, as fast as it came. Evidently, something else was, or I should say, is thriving. —The form was looked proud with a ting of arrogance. I asked myself, now being but several yards away: ‘does he have an inkling of my presence?’ Who concentrates so hard, I mean look, he is asking the water of the sea something? Perhaps someone; I get the feeling he has lost something, and wants to bargain for it back—death brings out many wishes in man and beast: and he looks to be both. Or is he planning something; he is huge, awfully massive. I’ll take a few more steps, a yard now, he should turn around I’d think. I’m sure he can feel my heart beating, I mean hear it beating, I can hear it myself. Again and again I say should he turn around towards me he’d see me, then what? Now he heard me mumbling my thoughts, he starting some incantations as well. A pathway to what I asked myself—, now what, I’m right behind him, three feet: “I’m Uámak, and below me, is the Minister of Doom, and there are many and various, ways to die, he has on a bone-skull plate, carved into it, seventy-two ways to die. He brings one plate at a time to me, shows them to me. I am forced to look as he mocks me. Doom has a funny sense of humor. He will I fear, play with me for ages. He says I must select one, and knows I can’t. He gathers my voice and echoes it down to whoever is under the crust of the earth—as they laugh at me. Which way has been chosen me, I know you have second sight?†I was mortified, he turned around and I almost lost control of my “What do you see?†asked the demigod. “A being with wings, putting rocks over your body. You are in a desert, chained to the earth under you, and the rocks over you, you cannot move.†“What death is this,†he asked me. “The living death,†I chokingly said. “Will I be conscious,†he asked. “Always!...†Note: Written 8/12/05/revised 8/19/05 (by Dennis L. Siluk) In Spanish Uámak ' s Acuática Con delicadeza, mi mente seleccionaba una melodÃa sorda, fuera del espacio muerto oscuro vacÃo rodeándome… Yo vi una forma sobre una roca, no seguro de quién era; yo tenÃa un pensamiento sensitivo llámalo un sentimiento, que siente ello, o la segunda oportunidad; habÃa oÃdo eso antes, no seguro de si quiero poner mucho crédito en ello, pero asà sea, la sensibilidad y el entumecimiento estaban allÃ. No sentà ningún peligro en el momento, en la figura iluminada por la luna, sentada sobre las rocas, estando al acecho, buscando en la profundidad. Realmente conseguà una conciencia de calambres en mi estómago pienso, como ciempiés que mordisquean en ello - de todas las esquinas - en la carne rosada y roja de mis órganos internos, picando sus pequeños colmillos venenosos en ellos. Tropecé sobre el follaje espeso, perdido en sus plantas espinosas crecidas demasiado salvajes y el fango, y Dios sabe que más; en el corolario, vine al borde cerca del mar, mirando sobre la acuática, al borde de la roca, hacÃa muchos años ya, que yo habÃa estado aquÃ. Yo zigzagueaba a través del último de los arbustos, cuidadosamente ahora, esto era el borde de la roca, y entonces consigo yo en una apertura más clara. Yo podÃa solamente oÃr los ruidos del cambio de las aguas ahora - las aguas debajo de mÃ, como el golpe de olas que hace ruido, y salpicando contra las rocas sobresalientes del mar, directamente delante de mÃ. Pero esto era unos segundos antes de la noche, detrás del crepúsculo, sà de verdad, esto habÃa desaparecido, tragado por una noche inquieta. La impenetrabilidad siempre parece traer con ello una cantidad ilimitada de amenaza, ¿verdad? Una pregunta retórica a lo mejor, seguro esto es, y aquella figura sobre la marea… se tornaba mas calmada, y las rocas eran el mamut, pasando por alta mar, dentado y con colmillos. El viento apacible sobre la cabeza, no como hace unos minutos, pienso esto, justo de improviso se evaporó. Como estuve a punto de decir, la forma, la silueta sobre la enorme roca, todavÃa esta examinando el mar; es como si él esta bloqueado en un trance, o que yo soy sólo un gusano para él, y demasiado insuficiente para él para prestarme cualquier atención. Él parece estar hablando con el mismo, o quizás algún monstruo de mar, solo bromeando - pero él se dirige a alguien, algo, y su cabeza dirigida hacia abajo, abajo, abajo hacia el mar. Salvo el hecho no estoy en una ilusión. See Mr. Dennis Siluk's books and travels at his website: http://dennissiluk.tripod.com Grab this articles
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