Frankenstein - Chapter 1

Frankenstein

The sun is just breaking the horizon. The rooster is cock-a-doodle-dooing. Victor just opened his eyes. Victor was having a dream about an old TV show he used to watch as a kid, Tales of Tomorrow. It was a show like the Twilight Zone before the Twilight Zone. One of his favorite episodes was the one where Lon Chaney Jr. was playing the monster in Frankenstein. Lon Chaney Jr. didn’t look like the monster that he played in Ghost of Frankenstein, but looked more like Robert De Niro monster in Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein.

Anyway, Victor doesn’t dream like most people. Victor dreams like he is watching a movie. He closes his eyes and the movie begins. After the credits, he opens his eyes and wakes up. Sometimes he gets scared and sometimes he doesn’t. You know how when you dream, you dream of your family and friends, Victor doesn’t have either. He has his TV. He dreams about his friends from the screen.

Victor sleeps in his clothes. Victor has black jeans, a white shirt and a black hooded sweatshirt. He also has these really nifty Velcro sneakers that he got at a yard sale a couple years ago. I shouldn’t say that he got them at the yard sale, but after the yard sale ended, and they threw everything away that didn’t sell, Victor dug through their trash and found the wonderful Velcro sneakers. He also has a couple other things that he thinks are of value, but they are hidden in his room somewhere, just in case robbers come in, they wouldn’t be able to find the stuff very quickly.

Victor gets up and walks across his apartment which looks like a bedroom, living room and dining room, all in one. In fact, that is the order of the room as Victor walks through it. His little twin bed rests underneath the only window in the apartment. As soon as he gets out of bed, he walks in between the couch and the small black and white television that sits up on a milk crate. As he makes it past the living room, he walks into the dining room which consists of a small desk and two chairs on either end. This is his dining room table. Right past that is the beaded curtain that leads down the stairs into Victors bathroom.

Victor walks down the stairs and instead of making his way to the toilet, like most people would when they wake up, he makes his way to the giant utility sink to brush his teeth. I made Victor with the special innate trait to never have to evacuate his bladder or bowels. This gives him much more time to brush his teeth and make sure that they are clean.

After Victor brushes his teeth, which lasts anywhere form 15 to 20 minutes, Victor turns around to his small, little Coleman grill that sits upon a broken washing machine. It is here where Victor cooks his one meal of the day. Eggs. Victor loves eggs. Every morning after he brushes his teeth, he cooks his breakfast which consists of eggs. And every morning, to try to put some spice in his life, he tries to cook the eggs a different way. One day he tried over-easy, another he tried poached, yet another he tried an empty omelet. But, everyday, the eggs end up being scrambled. Today Victor tried over-hard.

Victor walks past the door, and up the stairs.

The door!

I forgot to tell you about the door! At the bottom of Victors stairs is a door that leads into the kitchen of the “landlord’s” house in which Victor “rents” his apartment from. I use all of these terms very loosely. Victor’s landlord is a woman named Shelly. Shelly is in her mid thirties. She likes to smoke (mainly cigarettes and weed), drink coffee in the morning and drink anything with alcohol at anytime after 10 am. She doesn’t do fucking anything other than party.

If Victor wants to go outside, he has to walk out his door, into her kitchen. If he does this, it is pretty certain that he will run into Shelly, which means that he would have to have a conversation with her. The problem Victor has though is that he is unable to enter into a conversation with another human being without considerable trouble. As soon as someone starts talking to him, it starts a rabbit trail in Victor’s mind that could lead him to a character in a movie saying the exact same thing. At that point Victor trails off and starts watching the movie in his head. All of this leads to the fact that Victor rarely, and I mean rarely leaves his room.

Victor jogs past the door and runs up the stairs to eat his breakfast. He sits down at his little dining room table desk, puts down his plate, and opens up the porno magazine that was laying on the table, takes a bite of eggs and flips a page in the porno magazine. This too, is a routine for Victor, which he has been doing for years. Well, at least as long as his mother has been dead. I’ll tell you all about her later.

The pornography on the other hand, is a past time of Victors that he likes to do in-between watching movies and doing everything else that Victor does, which really isn’t that much. Victor really likes that part of the magazines that shows all the phone numbers that you could call or the ads for 40 DVD’s for 12 dollars! You know, the weird movies where it has things like, “A Chick with TWO DICKS!”, or “Hermaphrodite and its Horse” that kind of thing. He looks at those pictures, has himself a laugh, gets an erection, wants to touch it, and feels loads of guilt than goes to the next picture. You know, very normal.

After his eggs, Victor walks back down the stairs, peeks out the door, and if Shelly has made coffee, he will run out there and pour himself a cup. Shelly drinks her morning coffee on the back porch because she doesn’t smoke cigarettes in the house. Shelly has to have a cigarette with her morning coffee. So, this means Victor could get his coffee and run out the front door and most likely not run into her. She really isn’t a morning person.

Success!

Shelly has already gone out back with her coffee. Victor gets his coffee and runs out the front. He sits on a chair that he sits on every morning and thinks of what he will do that day. And like everyday, he decides that he will stay inside and watch old movies. He knows that Night of the Living Dead will be on in a little bit on channel 9. Victor will build his day around this two hour event.