Ossi end Mellow

An infinite domain, resides where?

The universe?

Deep within the trenches of the world's oceans?

Within the human mind?

Ossi said to me as he watched me squirm on the white sheets of the lego-block-like bed. The sheets were thin and so old they were now clad in unknown yellow stains.

Mellow! He exclaimed. You need to start thinking about the outside world! And I don’t mean out there. He pointed to the obscure window carved into the wall a few feet from the side of the bed. I ceased my squirming as I smiled and looked to his jawline, what window? I said with a sneer.

Ossi pointed aggressively again to the window, that one idiot. He looked down at me and sighed loudly, so loudly the sound could almost actually be heard. He sat on the edge of the bed tiredly and groaned, as I was saying before.

An infinite domain, resides where?

Within the depths of darkness or the egg of life.

Within pain or love?

Hey Ossi, would you mind shutting up? I said indifferently. I stared at the back of his head as silence filled the vacuum of the room.

I began to recite…

Bed

Window

Floor

Ceiling

Door.

Bed

Window

Floor

Ceiling

Door.

Bed

Window

Floor

Ceiling

Door.

Before I knew it, my eyes were closed and I was dreaming. In this dream, the world's color is mushed into many different things. Ossi!! I screamed out into the distance as a blob of the world began to take shape. Hey Ossi, I’m sorry about earlier…I squinted to see the now fully formed figure. The colors all merging and mixing into a beautiful display...and then darkness. The blob turned into a pit-Esque blackness, and all around me, the world began to crumble. From a colorful and bubbly world to a dark and barren void.

An infinite domain, resides where?

I whispered to myself...as my knees drew to my chest and my arms wrapped around them.

Within the depths of darkness or the egg of life.

I could hear Ossi whispering the same line again, as I finally awoke from the horrid dream.

I opened my eyes slowly as I looked from here to there seeing the...

Bed

Window

Floor

Ceiling

Door.

Then the back of Ossi’s head. An odd concavity appeared in it. It was dented like the shape an empty cup of jello takes after you’ve pressed the pouch inwards. Hmm, I reached for the back of his head slowly as he continued to recite the same line over and over “Within the depths of darkness or the egg of life….Within the depths of darkness or the egg of life….Within the depths of darkness or the egg of life.” Until I touched the back of his head. In that dent, I felt a warmth...a scarlet liquid began to ooze onto my fingers as I pulled them away.

I smiled softly as I looked at the back of Ossi’s head. Hey Ossi...why’s there a hole in the back of your head?

Hey Ossi...why’s there a hole in the back of your head?

Hey dad...why’s there a hole in the back of your head?

Hey Ossi...why’s there a hole in the back of your head?

Ossi slowly turned his head and the slow gush of blood and bones creaking echoed throughout the room. My smile etching creases into my cheeks like a blade, while my eyes go numb. The corners of my mouth begin to foam, over and over and over and over and over.

My throat traps any sound from escaping.

“Within the depths of darkness or the egg of life….Within the depths of darkness or the egg of life….Within the depths of darkness or the egg of life.”

His head was now fully facing me while his body facing the opposite direction.

Within pain or love?

Son.

Do you want to see the sweet dreams this world makes you dream?

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

He began to laugh as the foaming at the corners of my lips intensified and the whole world began to shake...then my body finally went numb.

The nurse walks into the almost vacant white room, all that resides within it are a...

Bed

Floor

Ceiling

Door.

She looks to the foot of the bed and finds him rocking and muttering words while the corners of his lips foam. “Ah...the usual coo-coo” She slowly inched closer to the small boy, a bit hesitant now as she saw his crazed state. “Make sure to take your pills.” She leaves his hefty dose of pills on the top of his sheetless bed. The boy stops rocking now and looks up to the nurse while he slowly reaches one of his hands out to her, his fingernails all gone from being ripped out. The area around the nail revealing tooth marks. A scarlet liquid oozing from the vacant nail bed; blood. She sees an infinite void in his clouded eyes and the slice-like creases that form a ghastly smile. Then…

“Do you want to see the sweet dreams this world makes you dream?”

He says…

...The nurse at her breaking point quickly jogs to the door, and just as she steps outside of the room she hears the boy whispering frantically to himself...

“Bed

Window

Floor

Ceiling

Door.”

Then, silence.

FIN