Wednesday, May 14, 2008

October 24, 1979

Wednesday; I"m 16.

I'm not sure when it started, but it's been going on for a few weeks now.  I first noticed it one night after I had gone to sleep.  A strange noise woke me up.  I looked up groggily from my pillow, fumbling around for the light switch.  Suddenly something blew into my face.  Confused, I tried to brush it away.  It kept fluttering around my head, like some strange moth.  I was swinging my arms crazily about, trying to get it off my face, when I fell out of bed.  The lights quickly snapped on, for some strange reason.  I was looking up at the time, and the bright light blinded me for a moment.  I was dazed, blinded, and confused.  That thing was lying on the floor.  I grabbed it, but I had to wait a few seconds until my eyes adjusted to the light.  When I finally could see, I saw that I was holding a leaf in my hand.  The thing fluttering around my face was a leaf.  Being half-asleep, I couldn't figure out how a leaf would fly around my head like an insect.  But in the middle of the night, I didn't care, so I went back to sleep.  

Later the next day I was walking home from school.  I sort of strolled along, kicking the bright autumn leaves lying on the ground.  As I walked, a low sort of growling sound became audible.  Suddenly the wind picked up fast, to my face.  A wall of wind-blown leaves engulfed me.  I covered my face with my arms, and as the leaves flew past me, a louder growl surrounded me.

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