Again, Carl by misterakpan

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· @misterakpan · (edited)
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Again, Carl
I pointed it out like a firefighter’s hose smearing the wall with liquid. I bent backwards. But for the flexibility of my infantile skeleton I could have snapped. I kept bending, my shorts rolled and resting hallway between my pelvis and knees.

Dami stood beside me, anxious like an athlete waiting for the opponent's result to determine where he was on the leaderboard.

*”My own is higher,”* I shouted in excitement.

We laughed. Lanre my friend hung his hands on my shoulder and cheered. We were having fun. Mad fun. I had just set a new record. No one yet had peed higher. Mine touched on the white chalk that wrote “caveat emptor” on the wall. That was far higher than Dami’s. Even Dami was not as tall as my pee traveled. I was the king among us. It felt good. Really good.
***
Then I turned in my bed to a slight discomfort. It occurred. I sprang up to the smell of urine. I touched my short. It was wet. I touched my brother's lying next to me, hoping it was him. His was dry. Again.

The harmattan wind blew through the window and I felt very cold on the lower part of my body. I sat by the side of the bed, lost in thought what to do. Like a cat desperate to hide its poo, I scampered for a bucket and water and rag. I couldn't find a rag so I took off my shorts and soaked it in water.

I brushed the bed desperately. Every time my brother turned, I paused. The voice of my mum asking me to drink in moderation the previous night kept playing in my head. The threat that I will be laughed at in boarding school began to hunt me. I brushed even more desperately.

It was middle December and things dried up quicker. I wanted this one to dry before anyone woke up. I changed into a new shorts and laid in the couch in my room.

Then the lights came on in the corridor. It was my mum. She turned on the lights in my room too. She looked at my bed and saw the wet mark on it. She looked at me in the couch. She must have noticed I had changed my shorts. I looked away in embarrassment. Now everyone will know. The champion of the peeing competition is the villain in the real world.

*“You wetted the bed again, Carl?”*
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@tojukaka · (edited)
Guy, 
U dey write! 

I love this

But why u nor put picture?
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@misterakpan · (edited)
Thanks bro. I actually spent 10 minutes looking for a picture that don't distract, but sits with the story (not in a dumb way), I couldn't find. So I decided to leave it that way.
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@carlgnash ·
You want me to take a picture?  LOL
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@dante31 · (edited)
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<h1>hey @misterakpan </h1>


Finally,  you wrote something. Nice one.

Loved it. What a dream? Almost fell victim of one in my sleep back in boarding school.  I was so pressed so I went straight to the toilet. It was just so clean and everywhere was neat. 

Was just few seconds away from embarrassing myself. Mosquito bit me.
 I woke up.


Good story.

Cheers mate

@dante31
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@misterakpan ·
Hahahaha. Science is yet to explain how they connect. Let's hope someone does soon enough.
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@sweetestglo-eu ·
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Nice one, I just love this fiction, I don't know why peeing in the dream comes in reality. 

Meanwhile you write so well, keep it coming... loveeee it.
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@misterakpan ·
Thank you, Glo. I really appreciate your reading it and enjoying it. Will do my best to "keep it coming." ;-)
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@carlgnash ·
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Man I am laughing so hard.  Great short story.  Really wonderful choice of character names as well :)   We used to play a different pee game growing up.  The first one to write their name in the snow with their pee won.  It helped to have a short name of course!   In the summer we would each stand in front of a different devil's club plant and try to pee on as many different leaves as possible.  Devil's club is covered in spines and has huge leaves that look like a maple leaf but are several feet across.
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@misterakpan ·
Hahahahaha. Trust me yours was such fun. I have never seen snow, so the first day I will stand under one, I will spell my name on it. LOL. I'll google a "devil's club" right now to see if it grows near me.

And for the names, semblance to real life events is nothing but mere coincidence. Hahahahaha. Told ya, 'goin sell y'all for some SBD.

One love, man
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@thatdamiguy ·
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Back to writing? I hope so bro,  you have some magical ways of telling stories
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@misterakpan ·
I hope so too, bro :-D Thanks so much
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@falsefreedom ·
Really well written bed-wetting story man!
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@misterakpan ·
:-D I appreciate that
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@raj808 · (edited)
Good stuff @misterakpan. I also played the who can piss the highest game lol If memory serves me right it was in the derelict house 3 doors up from where I lived as a child. We also used to dare each other to go into the basement for 5 minutes as we were all convinced that it was haunted. Things kids do eh. Great story, keep em coming 🙂 ✍
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@misterakpan ·
Quite a childhood you had there. I am happy you read and liked it <3
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@nuclearsalad ·
I love this. I was a bed-wetter when I was young (and my parents weren't so patient with me) and to be honest, I carried the trauma with me.

When my baby boy is wetting our bed, I never felt any urge to be unpatient with him. Just sharing.

I like your prose! And I am scrolling down your blog to read more!
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@misterakpan ·
Thank you, Nuclear. I guess you figured soon enough I am really a "struggling writer." ;-)
Glad you stopped by.
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@soundwavesphoton ·
Haha funny short story, you da man Mr Akpan.  

https://media.giphy.com/media/3ohhwmOnflHOU3iD7i/giphy.gif
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@misterakpan ·
:-D Glad you were entertained. bud
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