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July 26, 2016
In Soviet Russia... by Osterkaktus is a bit of light-hearted, tongue-in-cheek humor about a place where everything isn't quite what you're used to.
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I always thought that the stories were nothing but jokes. Cheap laughs for sweaty, unoriginal interneteers. And so I had never thought that when I did visit Soviet Russia and went to my rented car, it would indeed drive me.
The black Sudan smiled at me and spoke in a murmur by lifting its hood; "finally. I've been waiting for days." Then it snatched the keys I were holding, stuck it in my mouth and jumped on my back.
It was strange at first, but I quickly got used to it. The car wasn't as heavy as people said it was and it was actually quite nice. It told me to turn by gently pulling at my ears and always sang along to the radio (which, by the way, only played Boney M.'s "Rasputin" on constant repeat). Along the way I saw mostly strange sights, feeling like quite the tourist. A short bulldog was taking its owner for a walk, and a new Kickstarted company was advertising its slogan; "Machine Programs You!"
After a while, it got slightly tired. My legs started hurting from carrying the car and although some aspects of Soviet Russia were nice (God prays you, taxes pay you), I was beginning to feel like I was working again. Taking orders from a (slightly) more metallic boss and muscles hurting as much as they did on a normal Monday. I was beginning to fear that I could never return from my vacation. And don't even get me started on my fears for what I would do after my taxi service was finished (in Soviet Russia, does my food cook me?)
Luckily, just as my Sudan had begun texting carelessly on my back and a car was rushing towards us I remembered that all of this was incorrect. My ex-girlfriend lived in Russia, not Soviet Russia. In fact, I realized that Soviet Russia did not even exist anymore, and as I did, the impossible world ceased to exist, (after all, it had never existed in the first place) and I found myself suddenly inside the car, hands on the wheel, whistling to Boney M.'s deep, sexy voice.
Huh.
The black Sudan smiled at me and spoke in a murmur by lifting its hood; "finally. I've been waiting for days." Then it snatched the keys I were holding, stuck it in my mouth and jumped on my back.
It was strange at first, but I quickly got used to it. The car wasn't as heavy as people said it was and it was actually quite nice. It told me to turn by gently pulling at my ears and always sang along to the radio (which, by the way, only played Boney M.'s "Rasputin" on constant repeat). Along the way I saw mostly strange sights, feeling like quite the tourist. A short bulldog was taking its owner for a walk, and a new Kickstarted company was advertising its slogan; "Machine Programs You!"
After a while, it got slightly tired. My legs started hurting from carrying the car and although some aspects of Soviet Russia were nice (God prays you, taxes pay you), I was beginning to feel like I was working again. Taking orders from a (slightly) more metallic boss and muscles hurting as much as they did on a normal Monday. I was beginning to fear that I could never return from my vacation. And don't even get me started on my fears for what I would do after my taxi service was finished (in Soviet Russia, does my food cook me?)
Luckily, just as my Sudan had begun texting carelessly on my back and a car was rushing towards us I remembered that all of this was incorrect. My ex-girlfriend lived in Russia, not Soviet Russia. In fact, I realized that Soviet Russia did not even exist anymore, and as I did, the impossible world ceased to exist, (after all, it had never existed in the first place) and I found myself suddenly inside the car, hands on the wheel, whistling to Boney M.'s deep, sexy voice.
Huh.
Literature
Right
Here's the bad news:
tomorrow
there will be a bird
on your doorstep.
Dead or dying, you think
it has something to do
with me. It does not.
There's the crux
you always think
the bird should rise up
and proclaim its killer,
its savior, should point out
which cat only watched and which
opened its mouth; which cat
is not a cat but a storm
or a window or another bird
and to be honest,
I would like these things too.
But it owes us only its death,
incapable of shaming
our compulsive involvement,
our need to make the bird
about ourselves.
You want to be jury
in an empty room. You want
to hold court
for every little thing
that makes you feel.
Literature
For --
Bloom, bloom, bloom,
by the window, by the sun,
by the cooling shade of soft green cedar,
bloom, bloom, bloom.
When the chrysanthemums baldly raises
its heavy head to the dim-lit skies,
or cicadas shrill in train-speed rhythm
buzz and rest their wings on your shivering thighs
do not fear the world, the strangeness of Nature,
do not flip your pale small eyelids and waver.
Whenever burly oaks grow, wild-strong branches wide,
and benign barley bend and bow in a smile;
No - this too high; No - this too low,
Bloom, bloom, bloom.
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Miles to Go
1
“Can you move your leg over the edge of your bed?”
Already it’s been roughly two weeks since my rail platform accident. Still I’m bedridden, still my left leg is all plaster and bandages, and already I’m growing dangerously thin by comparison to my usually slim build.
I concentrate all of my energy into moving my leg. That’s when the excruciating pain quite literally kicks in, taking the form of a spontaneous muscle spasm.
I don’t flash back completely, but my leg does. I feel terrified and am ashamed when I break down crying with childlike abandon. But Jessica doesn’t scold me the way the
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Write a story using surreal humor, Deus Ex Machina and involving a deity, an ex-lover and a machine.
Write a story using surreal humor, Deus Ex Machina and involving a deity, an ex-lover and a machine.
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In Soviet Russia, you murder murderer.