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My name is David Michael Chandler, and everyday I will post a Daily Doodle with a story attached to it. Everything you see here has been written, drawn, and coloured all on my lonesome. I hope you enjoy them, or die trying. Please E-mail anytime at thedailydoodles@gmail.com |
“The Hidden World Within”
Everyone has their own world, existing deep inside
Some try to escape it, and some stay in and hide.
Populated by secrets, lies, and all that you regret
Things you won’t ever tell anyone but can’t ever forget
Towering peaks and deep valleys, growing as each day is new
Continents of memories, everything that makes you, You.
No two worlds are the same, each one is unique.
And no matter how much you share, others only get a peek.
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“The Door That Won’t Stay Closed”
Young Jake wakes up, as he hears his closet door creak
It’s opened once more, and what’s inside is taking a peek.
He rushes to shut it, but he knows it won’t hold for good,
It will always try to come out, as it has since childhood.
He’s boarded it up tight, but it wiggles a way through
He’s hidden it out of sight, but still eternally it grew.
It won’t starve to death, no matter how much it’s ignored
It patiently sits back, waiting for a chance to be adored.
And when that day comes, it’ll enjoy the long-awaited limelight
Relishing that its existence will make them all sick at its sight.
Everyone who thought that they knew him, will realize they don’t.
He’ll hope things will stay the same, but he knows that it won’t.
It will rot slowly in the daylight, ripening as it stews in the open air
Its stench permanently soaked in the nostrils, of anyone who might care.
But for now all he can do, is repeatedly keep the door closed.
Knowing that it’s just a matter of time, till it’s all exposed.
He locks the door again, muffling its cringe inducing sound
And tries not to think of what’ll happen, when it is eventually found.
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“The Near Death Experience”
The familiar feeling of a fistful of pills festering in her stomach dissipates away to a strange airy lightness as she feels her body float up from her bed.
Did it work? Is it all over?
…It had to be enough this time.
She feels herself float up and up for what seems like ages, the void of blackness finally giving way to the gentle twinkling of stars above her. She looks down, and while she can still see her bed below, she also notices that she’s wearing her favourite dress from when she was 8… she hasn’t seen that dress in decades, not since the garage sale before the second move.
And the shoes! The shoes she wanted for Christmas and never got! The ruby red ballerina shoes, oh she wanted them so bad…! It seems like such a small thing to dream about now, but back then…
She wishes she could want something like that again, just once more.
Expecting the soothing golden light to welcome her to the afterlife, or at least some relatives she is meant to have loved greeting her, she waits nervously for something to happen…
The gentle twinkling of the stars above starts to slightly unnerve her, as their twinkling begins to feel… oppressive somehow. Ominous. Even though she is seemingly floating in place, she can feel the stars coming closer, somehow mocking her…
Each sparkle of the stars blasts within her head now, ricocheting around her brain, and she can feel the presence of fully formed thoughts planted directly in her mind. They weren’t said with words or sentences, but simply concepts, ideas that she can’t quite articulate out loud…
But she knows now, that this is all a joke. Everything.
Everything she ever knew, loved, or cared about, is all a joke. None of it is real. And the fact that we think it is real, she realizes, makes it all the funnier. It’s a massive prank pulled on all of humankind.
And none of it matters. Life, death… nothing.
But the punchline, she knows, is that she hilariously feels like she wants to live now… despite being in on the joke. She can’t explain why, but she can feel that want inside of her… even if only distantly.
Suddenly, she’s lurched back into her body as she finds herself violently throwing up the mix of half-digested tablets and capsules, along with the still-cold ice water she had washed the pills down with. Only a few moments must have passed, she thinks to herself, as she slumps into a wretched pile on her bathroom floor.
In stark contrast to her other attempts, this time she keeps it secret. She doesn’t want the forced sympathy it brings.
And while she can sense the heavens mocking her inside her mind’s eye for the rest of her life, it’s fine… she knows they’re just as big of a joke as she is.
(Giffed by the amazingly talented and beautiful Fatma!)
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“The Many Faces”
Jason Frye wears many faces, one for each role he plays
Some of them he wears for friends, or during his school days
Others he’ll wear for work, perhaps for people he doesn’t know
And some of them are faces he hates, and is a blow to his ego.
In his mind’s eye, he sees himself as his practiced face in front of mirrors
Secretly his private worry is that it’s not how he really appears.
What if everyone can spot his flaws, the ones only he is able to see?
Then they’d know the face is a lie, and the thought makes him want to flee.
But until that day he’ll stay in place and wear the face that suits him best,
Only show what he wants others to see, and no one gets shown the rest.
Posted 11/15/2012
(Starring Jason Frye from tiptoelightlypastmymind.tumblr.com!)
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“The Door That Won’t Stay Closed”
Young Jake wakes up, as he hears his closet door creek
It’s opened once more, and what’s inside is taking a peek.
He rushes to shut it, but he knows it won’t hold for good,
It will always try to come out, as it has since childhood.
He’s boarded it up tight, but it wiggles a way through
He’s hidden it out of sight, but still eternally it grew.
It won’t starve to death, no matter how much it’s ignored
It patiently sits back, waiting for a chance to be adored.
And when that day comes, it’ll enjoy the long-awaited limelight
Relishing that its existence will make them all sick at its sight.
Everyone who thought that they knew Jake, will realize they don’t.
He’ll hope things will stay the same, but he knows that it won’t.
It will rot slowly in the daylight, ripening as it stews in the open air
Its stench permanently soaked in the nostrils, of anyone who might care.
But for now all he can do, is repeatedly keep the door closed.
Knowing that it’s just a matter of time, till it’s all exposed.
He locks the door again, muffling its cringe inducing sound
And tries not to think of what’ll happen, when it is eventually found.
Posted 8/14/2012
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