Thursday, October 21, 2010

Madness--First Page

This is the start of a novel I was planning on writing..... but I never finished. Should I?




I don't know when exactly the birds came to devour me. It may have been when I was heaping plates full of homemade mashed potatoes. It may have been when I was
organizing the school fair, or maybe it was when my husband, shuddered into me. then fell heavy across me.

 I remember I wondered if I had started the washer and turned off the coffee pot. Just ordinary things in my day. My boring lost little life..The birds could have came a little at a time I guess, just a few here and there invisible at first. Looking back I know I felt them on my head long before they started to eat. The wisp of hair that was suddenly forever falling across my eye. It was probably one of them pecking, looking for my skull. I never heard a sound when they started but inside I screamed and I looked for other better ways than being eaten alive.


The water I bathed the boy in looked inviting. I wanted to float away in the water with my pills but Mick had taken them from me. I thought often of the boy. There was a time when he had a name but I didn't remember it anymore.  Mick said that I had given the boy a name when he was a small child, almost as small as the tiny birds. Even before he came out of my world and was birthed into this one I had given him a name. I wish I could remember. maybe someday I would. But for now I have to tell about the birds.