update Beverley's dream

update Beverley's dream:

fiction
Edward w Pritchard

a poem from original stories about Kent State shootings by author: The pear is partner one in a break-up, the building is partner two. How things ended.



Things had ended like a lush over ripe pear hitting the side of a red brick building. The impact annihilated the pear but the changes to the building were subtle and took time to work out.

The Pear:
First went logic- gone in an instant
Then went sensation- a massive shock of pain was felt
Last went experience- experience hung on for a few extra moments and passed something on through the heart
then the pear was gone. Reality vanished, memory edited everything.

The building:
the bricks in the vicinity of the pear's impact absorbed the sugar from the pear and attracted bees and insects
bees and insects attracted birds
birds nested in the holes in the bricks
in time all evidence of the pear's impact was gone
the building is still there
no worse for wear from the impact with the pear
except for a few nesting birds
who lay very tiny turquoise colored eggs in the spaces between the bricks.
The building is empty now, cold, desolate and all seven stories are vacant.