Jon Phillips is a motion graphics artist, writer, and director.

Spooktober Stories

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October 2, 2019.

SPOOKTOBER STORY #2:

 

My sister, the stupid idiot and general all around dum-dum, got herself trapped in a time loop a couple of hours ago by messing around with a haunted clock or something. Every time I see her she is a lot older than the last time I saw her, which doesn’t seem to be how a time loop should work, but I don’t know what to tell you. I’m not a time-loop-ologist. Anyway she looks older than our mom now, who is 65, so she must have been trapped in this time loop for at least like 50 years. Ugh!

 

“Hey dum-dum,” I tell her. She mouths the words I am about to say along with me, which I used to find pretty disconcerting for the first hour or two, but now it is funny and I try to see what I can make her say. “My name is Patricia” (that’s my sister’s name) “and I’m the world’s biggest idiot, and I loooove being stuck in this time loop.”

 

She mouths the words along with me and it makes me laugh, although it’s kind of sad that she no longer tries to interact with the world in any other way. At least she isn’t asking me to kill her any more. What a dum-dum ha ha. I’m going to miss her