Sinister: The beginning of the end

[Peter Carter]

This particular beginning (one of many) was written in my creative writing
class at uni as part of an assignment. Needs re-drafting and legthening and
so forth. It's called (oddly enough) Judy and the Dream of Horses.
Autographs will be sent to any person or persons who send me a stamped
addressed evelope in the mail.


"Write a song about your dream of horses
Call it Judy and the Dream of Horses",

That line must have been playing just as she fell asleep, or when the timer
on her stereo kicked in and switched it off, either way it wouldn't stop
looping. She didn't really mind, she liked that line, and not just because
of the vanity that came with hearing your own name. There was something in
that line about hope and about value being found in the wrong places. I
suppose you wouldn't understand unless you'd heard it all, or at least the
relevant bits. The part that nearly explained it went something like;

"Judy got a book at school
Went under the covers with a torch
Fell asleep till it was morning
Dreamt about a girl who stole a horse
Judy never felt so good except when she was sleeping"

But you'd really need to hear it all the way through.

Judy decided she'd take the advice, although it couldn't be a song, they'd
already written the song so that would be silly. Judy was going to write a
story, after all, you didn't get a motivation like this every day and it
might be the push she needed to finish something she'd started. You couldn't
live on scrapbook ideas and poems these days, no matter how good you were.

Judy sat down at the desk behind her bed. She began slowly, but began to
pick up speed the more she wrote and the more she liked it;

"'Judy and the Dream of Horses'

I hadn't slept properly in a month.



"...and of course everyone felt appropriately shocked and saddened by the
women's affliction..."

The Happy Reaper

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