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We're Not in Kansas, Anymore
April 01, 2004, 12:22 p.m. The strangest thing happened. I came home from being out at the pub with SUMS just then, and I’d left my key at home so I was walking round the back, see if someone was still up and I could get in the back door. There’s a path between my house and the fence, and our clothes-line is there. I let myself through the lattice gate, and after I shut it, I turned around and was watching clothes-line, because it’s quite low, and while I’m short, I was wearing heels that make me taller than usual. And, up on top of the clothes-line was this furry shape. I was a bit startled, but I thought it was a cat, so I wasn’t that fussed by it. I stepped closer, because there was a black cat in our yard a couple of days ago and I wondered if it was the same one. But as I stepped forward, its tail moved and I could see it better in the light from my sister’s bedroom window – and I realised it wasn’t black, it was white. I looked at it again, and I realised it wasn’t a car – it was holding onto the clothes-line with little hand-like paws, and its face was all squished up and wrinkled. It was a freaking monkey! I think it only then realised I was watching it, cause it freaked out and shrieked at me, and then the weirdest thing happened – weirder than a loose albino monkey – It fucking flew away. I’m not kidding, these opaque butterfly-like wings suddenly opened up and it took off! I just stood there afterward, mouth open, heart pounding. It shouldn’t be able to fly, not on butterfly wings. They’re too light. I know you probably don’t believe me. I don’t believe it – I’m wondering if someone slipped me something tonight, or if I’ve got some sort of brain tumour that’s giving me hallucinations. But it bloody well happened. And now I’m really freaked out. My sister was up, before, but I didn’t tell her what I saw. And now she’s gone to bed and it’s just me, typing this up, and I’m a little afraid to go to bed. What if I’m going crazy? Worse, what if I’m not and that freaky monkey’s still out there? What the hell was it doing on my clothes-line? I don't know, do you think I'm going crazy? This isn't possible, flying monkeys - it's like something out of The Wizard of Oz - only they had bat wings. I must be hallucinating. Maybe it was just a white cat, or an albino sugar glider. But the wings?! Trick of the light . . . oh jeez . . . I don't know. Maybe if I just forget about it . . .
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