Flowers for the dead

It was the perfect day to take a drive in the country, get out of the city. So I got on my car and drove without any precise destination, just enjoying the view as the landscape became less and less familiar. I ran into a small graveyard with beautiful sculptures. Something made me stop and check it out. As I walked to it, I ran into an old lady carrying a withered bunch of flowers. I didn't see anybody else but her. She looked almost as old as some of the tombstones on the graveyard. She walked towards me and said: "Flowers? Flowers for the dead? I thanked her and told her I didn't know anyone in the graveyard, that I was just passing by. She said again: "You need flowers. Flowers for the dead". I tried to explain to her again that I had no use for the flowers, since none of these people were familiar to me. She just gave me a smile, the most beautiful smile I have ever seen and said, "not for them, just for you" and pointed at something behind me. I turned around and saw my car smashed against a big tree on a curve right in front of the graveyard. I looked back at her and took the flower she was handing to me. The flower for the dead.

Peripheral Vision

Allergy season is in. Year after year, the same story. My eyes get itchy and my nose and ears get totally clogged. Nothing seems to work. I was so bored with it, that at this point, I would try anything. It is so noticeable, that last week when I was walking along a small street in Chinatown, looking for a dumplings place I've heard about, an old chinese man stopped me and asked me:
"you want allergy out?'
I asked him what he meant by that, to which he just replied:
"I give you allergy out"
At this point, I was willing to try anything. So I said yes to the old man. He went back into his rundown store and came back out with a small bottle.
"Put one drop in ears, one drop in nose. Close nose and blow. You be happy"
I took the bottle and asked him how much but he refused to receive any money.
That night when I got home, I got undressed and the bottle fell off my pants' pocket. I had totally forgotten about it. I was a bit skeptical, but decided to try it. I applied a drop in each one of my nostrils and a drop in my ears, covered my nose with two fingers and blew.
And then it happened...
My eyes were closed, as they always are when you blow your nose. Before I could open them again, I felt a strange sensation inside of my head. A warm tingling. It felt as if my eyes were rolling back into my head. Suddenly my ears popped, they were no longer clogged. I opened my eyes but what I saw disoriented me: I no longer saw the cabinet mirror in front of me. I was looking at the shower and the toilet, which were at opposite ends of the long bathroom.
I slowly turned my head around and saw myself in the mirror: I could see the right side of my head, my right ear, and in it, my right eye peeking out of the tiny ear hole. I turned the other way and saw exactly the same on the opposite side. My eyeballs had rolled all the way back to my ear canal.
I still could see perfectly. It took me a couple of minutes to get used to this, but I could see perfectly. I had a bit of a problem with perspective, but other than that, it was fine. I tried covering my nose again and this time instead of blowing I sucked the air in. I felt the same tingling sensation and my eyes rolled back to their original place.
I was happy. Not only my allergies were gone, but I had also learned to control my peripheral vision like nobody else.

...And then I sneezed.