Fan fiction.
Based on "The Fly" by Stuart MacLean
Landon Dix
Today was probably Dave's most stressful day at his work; he owns an old record store beside Wong's Scottish meat pies, Not only did the store almost burn down, but he arrived to find his front window vandalized with spray paint and jiffy markers. On Dave's walk home he needed to calm himself. He sighed and then took a long deep in-breath, which was the moment in which he inhaled something. Something not normal, some thing made him cough, cry, and feel weird inside, he look at where he was standing, he thought "what could he of swallowed", but then he saw it, community workers sawing the metal for a fence, sparks flying everywhere. A spark, a spark had gone down his throat, but he thought to himself, maybe I didn't swallow it, maybe he had inhaled it, maybe it had landed on his lungs, and burnt them. What could he do? What if he died 10 years early because he had troubles breathing? Dave didn't want to die, not early, no; he had to do something, but what?
Dave went to his record store, sat and thought; he thought "maybe a glass off water would help make sure that nothing further would happen, well if he could put it down the wrong tube, which in this case would be the right tube. What if the spark was still lit, inside of him, slowly burning away at his lungs? He coughed a couple of time, not the kind of cough that comes naturally, but the kind where you do it just because you think that it would happen naturally. Well choking on his water going down the wrong tube his friend sees him through the store windows and tries to run in and save him with the Heimlich maneuver. Well unexpectedly getting pushed away by Dave. Dave clears his throat. "Sorry about that" Dave says, explaining the story, and thanking his friend.
Dave heads home thinking his situation over in his head. Whenever Dave feels like he may die he like to do yoga. He never has been to a yoga class but he seen it on TV before, and he does the few moves he learnt on TV, because he feels it centers him. Now his kids have been around long enough to realize his dads thinks he's going to die. So they shout to him, dad if your fine now you'll be fine in 40 years, you're not going to die.