Ride The Lightning by everittdmickey

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Ride The Lightning
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# <center> Part 16:  Back to sleep... </center>
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<center>_and NightMares_ </center>

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I slept badly. 

I had Nightmares of:

*Falling*…..when I was a youngster I had fallen off a cliff. I had been walking along the top of a canyon wall. I was attending Haynes Boy Scout Camp near the Cap Rock Canyon area of Texas. I hadn’t been getting along too well with the other boys OR the instructors so I tended to wander off by myself. I was walking along the side of a cliff one evening and  the ground gave way below me… I fell.
Luckily I didn’t fall more than a few feet before the cliff became less sheer.  I rubbed and scraped down the side of before plowing into the top of some Spanish Skirts....  feet first.

I was upright.. like a skier or so I began skiing. I franticly worked to maintain my balance. To trip and tumble would be…un good. 

 Gradually the vertical became more horizontal. I was throwing up a rooster tail of sand and dust. I slid quite a ways before coming to a stop. Amazingly I was still standing upright. I was banged up and scrapped a little but not hurt. I was however Angry....... as usual, and my shoes were ruined.  Mom would raise hell over that.  I returned to camp after dark. No one even noticed I had been gone.

*Dark* ...  One time when I was a youngster on a church outing to Palo Duro State Park in Texas, I  wasn’t getting along too well with the others. I went exploring independently and alone.

 I’d crawled into a cave and investigated . I wasn’t thinking. I was feeling hurt and rejected by the others of my group... .I  was escaping. No flashlight. Shortly I was crawling on my hands and knees...then wiggling on my belly....and I was getting stuck. I was stuck for what seemed like hours with the weight of the mountain pressing down upon me. I was in utter darkness and total silence….and I was getting more angry by the minute.  Eventually I managed to free myself and find my way back to the group. I was scolded for getting dirty.

*Worry:*   One time as a young boy when I was swimming across Possum Kingdom lake in Texas, at another Boy Scout Camp. I still didn’t get along too well with others and I had taken to doing things at the camp on my own. I’d felt something that seemed to be  alive rub against my feet and lower legs in the murky waters and had thought of Water Moccasins and Alligator Gar. 

I almost managed to walk on water getting back to the shore.

*Hot*... Like the time in Vietnam. There was a Truck Crash. There was an explosion and a fire. There may have been snipers... .there might have been a land mines or rockets.....I never knew. 

I’d lost my legs that day. 

 That was the reason I left the military. 

 That was the reason I had a small disability income. . That’s why I have artificial legs today.

*Cold* .. .Like the time my Airplane   had crashed in the mountains of British Columbia. During a Storm. In the winter... in a Blizzard. Into the snow and ice. Months later I stumbled into a small mountain village wearing a WolfSkin cape. No one else had survived. I was fined for “possession of the fur of an endangered species”

*Vertigo*....like the time I was sick....oh I was sick. I went to the Doctor’s office....riding a bicycle. I was almost too dizzy to walk much less drive. Oddly enough I could ride a bicycle. I guess you never forget how. The doctor didn’t believe I was sick until I vomited in his trash can. [Meniere’s Disease](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9ni%C3%A8re's_disease) they called it. It went away by itself. 

The doctor still sent my a quite considerable bill.

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***To Be Continued***
_The Next Episode will be_
***Part 17: More NightMares***
_The Last episode was_
[Part 15: Annnnd...I'm awake.](https://steemit.com/fiction/@everittdmickey/67fupg-ride-the-lightning)
_the first episode was_
[Part 1 : Winter Storm]( https://steemit.com/fiction/@everittdmickey/part-1)
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I'm
@everittdmickey
I surf the net, find the GOOD stuff.
and write posts about it 
So you don't have to.
I also write
___SPECULATIVE FICTION___
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@sanjeevm ·
Nice writing, got you a 0.5 upvote from randowhale :) I wish, I had time to read all your posts.
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