Dirty Sheets

A cold sun came through the venetian blinds giving the whole room stripes. The room was decorated nicely but it was most noticeably dirty and unkempt. Like a great empire in decline or a faded dress. The bed stood out most. It was a beautiful piece with a tall dark oak headboard that reached almost to the ceiling. This is where our hero lays asleep. Where to some time is generous to Gerald is was treacherous. At the age of 35 he had the appearance of someone much older. His head was bald with a dark black ring and is mustache was gray. A lifelong smoker and drinker his skin was leathery and sagged. The long days of working outside and the stress of an unlucky life played their part as well. He began to stir.

Gerald rolled over looking to put his arm around someone but no one was there. He had done the same thing, every morning for the past two years. His young fiance split leaving him alone to his three bedroom in the suburbs.

Gerald sat up and put his feet on the carpeted floor. "Mother fucker" he said.



My first idea for a short story is about a guy who wakes up inexplicably in love with his bed. At first things are normal though he thinks about his bed more and more each day until finally he can't stand the anxiety of being separated from his beloved bed . He quits his job and stocks up on food and booze. He writes love poems and stuffs them under the mattress and becomes a disgusting slob, not taking out the garbage or taking showers. One night he orders a hooker, telling his bed, "we're going to have a threesome tonight." He gets the hooker to bring a case of beer and Chinese food. The hooker gets there and is immediately disgusted by the whole scene and leaves. Distraught and angry the main character drinks all the beer and eats all the Chinese food and has a wild sexual romp with his bed.

He wakes up the net day having fallen off his bed. His room, littered with beer cans and Chinese takeout containers and realizes how insane he has been and snaps out of it. He takes a shower and goes to a trucker bar. Drinking alone he meets a middle aged and not very attractive woman. They drink and he ends up taking her home. Not thinking about the disgusting state of his room he enthusiastically swings the door open to reveal the huge wreck though the woman is unfazed and completely overtaken with passion. They have wild sex on the beer cans and dirty sheets.


what are your thoughts on this idea?

The main character needs a reason to go crazy.