11987 Autumn
I was in the basement of $F1’s house. It seemed very strange to be here. I walked around the center of the basement towards the window on the west wall. The light coming through the window seemed hazy. There were objects in the room, and i remembered playing here when i was much younger. There was something covered with clear plastic, as if placed in storage. Then i saw $F1. I knew that he was dead, but he had come back to talk to me. I said hello to him and started to speak with him. It felt strange that he was here with me. I wondered how he had managed to come back to life. We sat down on the old green couch against the south wall of the basement and talked for a while. He seemed very relaxed, as if nothing were out of the ordinary. Then i heard the loud ringing noise. It was the alarm. It was calling him back to the spirit world. I wanted him to stay and talk to me a little longer. I then heard the ringing from above me again. It was louder, and getting more insistent. He had to go back, or something bad might happen. He wanted to stay and finish the conversation, but stood up to leave. I felt frightened and did not want him to go.
There was a lady dying in the cave. She had a fever, and was sitting in the water to keep cool. The girl then came by to get water from the river. She dipped her bucket into the water and left. Then the mother came looking for her baby. The baby had been sick and was in the water getting cool. The baby twitched a little, but then died. The people accused the mother of the baby’s death. They said that she was the cause of the plague. They said that she was a witch, and she must be killed. Her husband came out of the crowd and hit her. She fell onto the shore of the river. Her husband kept hitting her, and she started to bleed. She cried out for him to stop, but he would not. Then the people dragged her to the town, so that she could be punished in public. The baby’s sores would dry up if she was killed. She was chained to a stone wall and tortured. There was blood on her wrists where the shackles cut into her skin. She kept passing out from the pain, but she would always wake again. They kept hitting her until she was dead.
I stood at the entrance to $P27. It was a sunny day. My mother walked to the right, but i stopped to look at the two women in the red sports car. The convertible was parked right in front of the store, facing to the left. The woman in the driver’s seat was very attractive. She had long curly brown hair. There was something threatening about her, though. I moved closer to the car, staring at the long-haired woman. She smiled as she looked back at me. All of the sudden, her sister sat abruptly forward from the passenger’s seat. A stoic white porcelain mask covered her face, but i could see wide terrified eyes through the eye holes. I was scared of the second woman. I tensed, feeling that i should run away. She stared right into me. I felt like screaming, but could not breath.