Slipping 3

[Bill Lapham]

Jimmy's mind made a decision to move. He pushed his feet to the floor and raised himself to a standing position. Snapping sounds came from both ankles, first one, then the other, back by his Achilles' tendons, as he shifted his weight from his ass to his legs.

Immediately his brain attempted to reconcile the spinning visual inputs it got from his eyes with the destabilized error signals coming from his inner ears. With a loss of visual context, the onset of vertigo and it's consequent nausea, he sat back down, rolled onto his side, laid his head on the pillow and closed his eyes. A buzzing sound from inside his skull wound down like a jet engine reaching the skyway: no longer needed for thrust, the pilot had turned it off.

[Teresa]

I just want to get to the next post...

[Joe Gensle]

There's enough tension and pain here to snap a steel cable, will and determination strait-jacketed by something otherly, dominating self-determination. You can create it in six sentences as very, very few could. 

[Angela]

Echo Jamie re: the last sentence.  This is a strange situation.  I'll be looking in for more.  I'm a bit thick headed, and am wondering about the title, but don't tell me anything.

[Jamie Hogan]

That last sentences is brilliant and crushing in its accuracy of moment. Vertigo sucks ass. I want Jimmy to be okay, but I also know that sometimes bad situations don't turn out okay. Whatever is in store, I know you can't possibly disappoint.