Screams in the Night

Just when I thought my drama for the Thanksgiving weekend couldn't be topped, it has.


Thanksgiving Eve brought the infamous "I-love-you-vomit," and I'm still grateful for the Thanksgiving rain that washed it away. Then on Friday night, well actually Saturday morning around four am, one of my roommates had a moment of sleep stupor. Our rooms share a door none of us use, and since I don't have a closet my clothing rack is in front of it. My pretty shoes, that are feeling neglected because the knee won't let me wear them, hang on that door. Well...


In the midst of my own nightmare laden sleep I awoke to bangs and that door trying to open. My response was to scream like the second coming of Bezalbub.


Yup. I laid there and screamed in frozen, paralyzed fear. Coming to my senses I went into the main apartment--for which I realize that if this were a horror flick I'd so be dead--and the dog greeted me with licks and love. I presumed all was well and that it was someone I knew. I laid back down, to spend the next hour feeling my heart pray for its own eternal salvation.


I got a text several hours later apologizing. Today we had a nice laugh. Upside, when I changed my sheets today I found my fountain pen behind the bed. I thought I'd lost that, and considering I bought it with my first publishers check it's sentimental.


Walking along Astoria Boulevard, while typing this, I see and feel the madness of Christmas shopping as non eco-friendly spruce trees fragrance the air for buyers. Now, since the holidays have brought on batshit crazy in full force this year, how long until New Years?

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