GAP - Jean-Baptiste Castel
A6 Book
Dec. 2016
Glass tornadoes filled with red lightning topple over. The wind is deadly and terrifying as it screams through every gap of the tongue and groove boards and rips through the metal of the high gables. The sky is filled with low amber clouds.
We are not alone.
There are creatures that think they are a superior species. To them we are provincial, ignorant. They caused this strange weather and I’m fucking losing my shit. They seem to want to destroy us, but I don’t know why. I wish I could describe what they look like, but it’s beyond my vocabulary, and frankly, beyond my comprehension.
They are tearing up 100 year old trees as though they were weeds. They are peeling back the surface of the landscape as though the earth were an orange. Maybe they are looking for something.
I push one of the glass tornadoes and it falls like a tree. One of them sees me.
It freezes me…like captivates me. Just holds me in forced rapture as its brethren destroy the land around as far as the eye can see. This place isn’t home anymore.
When it’s over I scramble to find safety. I hide in an old overturned claw-foot bathtub. I pull the pad of paper and pen from my pocket and write:
“Chris, I love you with all my heart and I wish I hadn’t stayed behind because I may never see you again. I thought this was just natural to our world and it would pass and we would be safe, but it doesn’t look that way anymore. Please tell my family how much I love them. Tell them I was thinking of all the great memories with them in this old house. Tell our child that she is the most precious thing in the universe. Tell her everyday that I am a part of her so she is never without me. I can’t believe I stayed here. I wish I was with you. I wish I could call you to tell you I love you and to warn you of what is coming.
Wait, something isn’t right…This..I think this is all just a dream. ”
