Zombies and Corpses and Vampires, Oh My!
(12/22/00)
When the dream opened, I was waking up in my bedroom.
I noted that the window was tiny, at least an eighth of the size it was
in my actual bedroom. Outside, I saw that my favorite jewelry box had been
crushed into a thousand pieces, thrown out the window, and was rapidly
being covered by the falling snow. In the middle of the room, I saw a note
hanging from the ceiling. It read, "Since you decided to leave your room
such a mess, I decided to invite all of my friends from the outdoors --Skoochie"
(Skoochie is my cat). I knew instantly that my father had written the note.
In a blind rage, I tore up the stairs, and suddenly
the Black Anger of vampiric rage overtook me. Inwardly, I was frightened,
but it was only in the very core of myself. The outer layers were unaffected,
and the inner watched the outer as I flew past my father, who was sitting
in the den. It was then that the inner shreds of my being were able to
hold down the rest of me, so that I didn't kill someone. I literally flew,
and I realized that I was out of my body (though I honestly don't think
that I really was). Shouted down to my father, "Mortal! Can you hear me?"
He mouthed the word "yes".
"Why did you break it? Why did you trespass into
my territory, and break what belonged to me?" I demanded.
"You left your room a mess. I figured it didn't
really matter to you"
"It was not your room!"
I looked into the loft above our den, which was
his bedroom, and said, "Your room is as much of a mess as mine. You'll
pay for breaking it."
I was too choked by my own anger to continue to speak, so I continued
up into his bedroom, and tore his bed into pieces, hurling the pieces of
wood out the window.
When I returned downstairs, it was no longer my
house, but some other place. There were zombies everywhere, and they were
eating my friends. One of them came toward my cat, and I stood over her,
snarling protectively. The zombies backed off. One said, "She's one of
us. Leave her be," and they went on eating people, biting their legs off.
I watched helplessly as the blood poured onto the floor in profusion
from a multitude of bodies that they had dismembered with their teeth.
There was a flash, and I stood staring out the window
again, only in place of my broken jewelry box, my cat was lying, half covered
by snow, dead. I tried many necromantic rituals, (this is what I called
them in my dream) but at last I determined that she had been dead for too
long. Someone had been very careful in handling the body, and looking it
over, I saw that she had been drained by a zombie. I tore out of my bedroom,
and confronted them, hissing with rage and sorrow.