"Help, Mommy!" Lynn cried. But, before her mother could sit up in bed, Wind propelled the blade in Lynn's hand into her mother's heart. Lynn struggled with all of her might to remove the knife from her mother. But, when at last she freed it, Wind plunged it into her mother once more.
"Now kill her!" demanded The Wind and it guided Lynn to her parent's room, where Lynn knew her mother was sleeping.
"Lynn?" said her mother when she saw Lynn standing over her bed. "Honey, what's wrong? Did you have a bad dream?"
Wind would show Lynn who was boss. It propelled her to her bedroom door. Then Wind receded just long enough for Lynn to turn the handle. Wind pushed Lynn down the steep hallway steps into the dimly lit kitchen.
"Get the knife!" cried Wind. Lynn saw the knife on the kitchen counter. Its blade reflected the pale moonlight that streamed through the vertical blinds.
Lynn picked up the knife.
"Kill your mother!" screamed The Wind. "Kill her, kill her, kill her!"
Lynn buried her head beneath her pillow and pretended not to hear It. That made The Wind very angry. It rattled her bedroom windows and threatened to rip the roof right off the house.
Lynn had never been afraid of thunder or lightning or hail. But, The Wind-that was a different story.
The Wind howled outside her room stormy nights. It caused the tree limbs near her window to play an eerie scritch-scratch symphony. It blew her birthday trampoline into the neighbor's backyard. But, worst of all, Wind spoke to her and told her to do evil things.
The Other Mothers brought cookies in for the school bake sale. Or cakes or pies. But not Janie's mother. She brought candied spiders.
Janie was so embarrassed!
Funny how you can be in pain and nobody know it. Not the teller who cashes your check at the bank, nor the waitress who pours your tea at the diner. Not even the spouse beside you at night.
You paste the required smile on, though inside you're slowly dying.
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