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The Bone Tower

February 12, 2013
By SerbiaTakesCntrl GOLD, Pompano Beach, Florida
SerbiaTakesCntrl GOLD, Pompano Beach, Florida
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Favorite Quote:
&quot;There are those who say that life is like a book, with chapters for each event in your life and a limited number of pages to which you can spend your time. But I prefer to think that a book is like a life, particularly a good one, and is well worth staying up all night to finish.&quot;<br /> &mdash; Lemony Snicket (Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can&#039;t Avoid)


I had a dream that I was in a tower. The tower wasn’t very tall, but it had no doors and I couldn’t get down.

I had a baby, but it came out messy and tangled and I had to drop it out the window because I couldn’t stand the sight of it. This happened again and again until my little tower was littered with my babies’ bones. Sometimes at night I could hear them crying for me, waiting out in the cold.

There came a night when I could no longer take their screams, and so I threw myself over the side. Unfortunately my tower was too little, and the fall didn’t kill me; instead, I lay among my babies’ remains and cried with them until nothing was left but my bones and theirs.


The author's comments:
Not an actual dream, it's just part of the piece.

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