I washed blood in somebody's hair today. I saw a tree set somebody on fire today. We got apples today. I hate it here. I don't know why I'm here.
"I picked thirty apples today." says the watcher next to me. "Maria died today."
"Her name was Maria?"
"Yes." he brings his four fingers to his thumb on both a hands and brings them together. "Her name was Maria Richards. But she's Spanish."
"What do the trees do?"
"The baby trees of good and evil? I don't know."
"How does no one know what the tree of Good and Evil does?"
"Maybe Abner knows."
"Do we watch it at night?"
"No."
"Can I ask you another question?"
"Surely."
"What do y'all do in arts and crafts?"
"We draw." he tilts his head. "Sometimes we sculpt, And we play in the garden."
"The garden of memory?"
"Yep." he nods. "We play with them."
"You play with memory."
"Like a ball." he covers with his mouth. "Don't tell Ms. Simpson."
"What's your name?" I ask.
"A'Nere." he introduces. "A'Nere Saleem Growden."
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We make it back to the plantation. I'm hoping Dexter is in the room. Next we sit for dinner. The servers come out. One has one arm, he put my plate down and I uncover it. We are having asparagus, ham, and coconut milk. My shoulder twitches. "I'm so fucking hungry!" yells a black vamp female. "I'm sick of this sick!"
"Trashae! Sit down and eat." orders Ms. Simpson. "Kiss my black ass. I'm starving about eat somebody!"
"No you won't Trashae! Not in this house!" I drink some coconut milk. "Sit down Trashae!"
"Fuck you, I'm not a dog!" she shouts at Ms. Simpson. Ms. Simpson knocks into the threshold column. "Co-Co, Mun-see! Get her!"
Two echoes rush in. "BOW!" Trashae falls. "Take her tongue and fangs! Send her to the backrooms!" Ms. Simpson slips as she gets up.
"Y'all ain't taking my teeth!" she scoots back on the wood. The echoes pin her down, holding her by her fprehead. Another holds her mouth open as they yank out her fangs. I third echo comes with a pair of red scissors. Trashae hollers, I get a headache from the sound.
Where in God's name am I?
At night, I walk by Hitchcock. He's suppose to be a king. "I can't stand this shit no longer." he spats. "Ain't you a king."
"No longer. Fuck the church. Fuck the Apostles." he gets in his hammock. "Who's the apostles?"
"Go the fuck to bed!"
Well damn.
"Annoying ass light skin niglet." he mumbles.
"Magna come away from that nigger." calls Glean. "Nigger!"
"oh dulce madre maria…" I hear in the background.
"What!" Hitchcock swings out of bed. "What you call me, niglet!"
"Stop calling yo daughter and wife pigs." Glean makes his bed. "Didn't you also cheat on your wife with one of of yo hoes from your own coven? Plus you got a deal with Growden?"
"Didn't I fuck yo mama in the mouth!"
"Don't nobody fuck my mama in the mouth except the dentist! She got gingivitis!" Glean stampedes towards him. I move to the side. "Ms. Simpson!" one of the little kids runs out the room. "They fightin! They fightin!"
y"You a bitch Hitchcock!"
"Yo mama still like dick right?" he looks to the side. "I forgot who that bitch? She white or black." the old man is skinny with his slump shoulders but he's kill a vamp. "Nigga you can't even bite!"
"I can't bite!"
"You ain't king no more and you about to die. So what's good. Look like life ain't giving you seconds!"
His throat heats, "KILLING! Glean slaps the back wall. "I can't bite?" Hitchcock stomps. "I can't bite?"
"Bitch ass nigga I dare you to put fang on me!"
"HEY!"
Hitchcok goes for the throat, he pulls Gleans head back grabbing his hair. Glean blocks his teeth his forearm. He chomps down on his arm, blood drips on the floor. Glean isn't even screaming. Hitchcock keeps his grip and I see Glean reach for the back of his neck. He scratches at his next and Hitchcock groans. He lets go and his head falls off.
What the--
"Glean!"
He stares at me, he puts his hand up and a bright light consumes my vision.
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I woke up and Dexter still wasn't around. We sat down for breakfast this time instead of going straight to the play room.
I'm expecting Dexter to come server us. The server come and lay down the breakfast. We have apple slices, noodles, and a hard sandwich. My stomach churchs. My vision is wavy. I inhale, "You hungry?" Ranks asks.
What are they feeding us? At first I wasn't feeling it but now. The sandwich has this hard dry bread, it's ham, bacon, a cucumber, mustard, a big slice of cheese and pickles.
My stomach growls. I'm not eating…
We go to the playroom and I rest my head on the table. One of the watchers gets up along with A'Nere. "You guys are always back here by yourselves." says the big eyed little boy. "Abner says. A lonely heart is a mad heart."
"What the fuck in Dracula's coffin does that mean?" Rank seethes.
"Magna, do you wanna watch Abner?" he pats my shoulder. "We're watching episode 1."
"Ok."
I go and sit by the tv. The theme song comes on and with it being the first episode. Lucia isn't there.
The show starts with Abner the golden calf.
"Abner! Abner!" a woman jogs to him. "I need your blessings."
"And what for?" asks Abner. "I want to marry a man that looks too good but is poor."
"Do you want him to be rich?"
"No." says the woman. "I want him to be smarter. He drinks everyday and beats his mother."
I'm very concerned.
"Well, no man should put hands on his mother. Take the man to a whore and direct his anger." says Abner.
"But where would I find such a woman?" she ponders. Why put hands on anything or anyone? "Look to Baruch's House and beat his mother. She has been on the streets with no garments and lies about it. Hit her with a fine jar."
"Where do I go to get a fine jar?" she asks.
"Go to Sarai in Lichar in the east. Ask her for a pot with no water." Abner says. My stomach won't stop hurting.
The scene cuts to the woman riding a puppet camel. From what I can understand, the camel is the girl's best friend. As they travel another song plays that they both sing.
From sand to sand
And sea to sea
My camel is my ridin' buddy
His back is lumpy
And his neck is long
He's my camel buddy
"Ugh!" I lean back trying now to vomit.
So, as they ride it switches to this terrible animation of a camel and the girl riding through a poorly drawn dessert. The girl is too small and the camel looks like a watermelon. The camel isn't walking but slides across the brown ground.
They make it to Lichar and immediately ask Sarai for a pot. "You want my pot?" she thinks about it. "Well, give me your camel."
"My camel? I can't give you my camel, he's my way home and my best friend." says the woman.
"I promise to give him right back and I'll take good care of him." says Sarai.
"Well, Abner told me to get a pot from you and I always do what Abner says." That's a red flag.
"I promise, I'll take good care of him."
And so, Sarai took the camel and the woman took the pot. Abner told her to take the pot without water. And to be honest I have no idea how this biblical nonsense could possibly be bad.
The woman travels back to her town, which you find the name on a giant sign post on the intro card of a poorly drawn village with a noticeable Arabian waving at you.
The scenes cuts and glitches for a moment.
"Now I have to beat his mother with this jar."
The woman went to the man she wanted to marry's house and his mother opened the door when she knocked. Without any dialogue. The woman beats the old lady to death.
So this peculiar thing happens where they use a white painted basketball to represent the soul and the ball is the size of a regular ball but then becomes the size of a pea and drops into the jar and it becomes water.
Somehow, the man appears from the right side of the screen. "Kore, why are you here in my home? And my mother laid at your feet."
"Abner told me to do it. He told me to beat your mother."
"Kore, my mother is old and now dead. Splash the water in the jar on her."
And Kore splashed the water on the woman, who was differently dead. She did not revive. So the man took the jar from Kore and smashed it to pieces. Once he smashed it, he picked up the pieces and ate them.
"Leave my home!" the man demanded in a soft spoken tone. I am confused.
The screen glitches and I saw another creature like in the last episode. A lion's head with bat's wings. It directs for Kore to leave and she leaves with her head down.
The scene changes to a poorly drawn animation and slides into the village of Lichar. She goes to Sarai and asks for her camel back.
This is where we found out the camel's name is Bilal.
Sarai tells Kore that she cannot give her camel back because she fucking ate the camel. Like we just had a whole song about the camel being a buddy and now a whole source of trust issue is inside of me.
"Why did you eat my camel?" berates Kore. Sarai doesn't answer and the screen changes to two boxers.
I am baffled.
So the we go back to live action and sarai has red paint all over her face. We go back to the animation of Kore sliding her ass back home.
She goes to Abner in tears.
He immediately scorns her. Kore is talking but it's in pure spanish. Lord how is this show so sloopy?
"You are stupid, Kore!" the man in a costume chastizes. "I told you to hit a different woman and for the price of murder. I curse you to be deaf in one ear."
"Abner, please, please. Spare my ears. For if I am deaf I can not hear my children nor lover."
"He doesn't want you says Abner." something appears over Abner. It's a cow's head attached to a man's body and has the tail of a dragon. "Leave me Kore."
"Oh Abner, I lied! I should have married you!" she weeps. "Please forgive me."
Abner does a 360 and disappears.
The entire show is over with her saying, "I should have listened. It quickly flashes to the horrid being, saying in a distorted voice, "You should do well to listen." And the cow is smiling.
I want to die.