Date: 12/29/2022
By drmr
We were in the living room trying to hang ornaments. Jurnee was there and her neck was swelling and she was too sick to do it. She was lying on the floor but very peaceful saying it's ok it's ok. Som came in and turned on the TV and it was soccer. I asked him to help bring magi gifts and the magi was coming. He started yelling that we smelled like dogs and wretching. Then a little girl appeared outside the window dressed in a belly shirt holding the picture in the frame of his father that I had printed. He got really excited started tearing up the boxes and taking the gifts and took the perfume I got my mother. He went through the kitchen drawers and started taking the utensils but he only took the cheap plastic ones. I said there are better ones but the ones made of metal he threw on the floor. He wrapped up the gifts in the torn paper and broke through the window to get to the little girl. She started dancing in the driveway a belly dance like Shakira and she was wearing gold. She started to get bigger to adult size but she was still shaped like a child only larger. Som was praying like Muslim style and put the gifts he took from under the tree at her feet and she was pleased. It was cold inside and my father appeared and was mad the window was broken he wanted to enjoy his beer. The screen with the sports turned into a bunch of Indian men I think were Soms friends and they were also somehow also physically outside and cheering and then they were outside cheering on the dancing saying they wanted to see wanted to see. They smashed the picture and tore it up and som took off his pants and started masturbating to the woman dancing and they were cheering on the spectacle. She started taking off her clothes and putting on the perfume and still dancing and putting the utensils from my kitchen that I had bought from the dollar tree into her vagina. His boss the chair from the University was behind his back watching the whole thing and getting oral from his ex beth and when he was finished and then he put on soms pants that he had discarded. The TV went off and the real Basu babu appeared inside. He tried to yell to his son outside "Shakti na" but he didn't hear him because the men were cheering. The picture in the frame was just an image of the beast. A captured memory like a piece of worm on a hook He said he was one of the magi and brought the gift of fire. He looked at jurnee and said the time was coming close. "Whatever you did to the least of these you did it to me" The candle was lit and it made the room warm again and my father was happy and left with his beer to take it to my mother and to go back to sleep. Jurnee said thank you mama and started to fall asleep. I was kneeling next to her. Once I was alone I was able to cry. The blood from miscarriage started coming through my pants and I was looking through the window watching som masturbate and it hurt me to watch. The Dancer pulled a knife out of her vagina and used it to slit his throat while he was on his knees praying to her and masturbating. She used the blood to make a red dot on her forehead and licked the blood from the knife. She looked at Som's boss and they held hands and ruled over som's friends who were remaining and cheering and saying they wanted to see more fucking. Babu Basu looked sad. He said to stop watching. He explained Jurnee and I had been treated like men because we had real Shakti that had to be hidden for safety and we had to carry it alone but it was too heavy. But we did good in our mission. The fire would see everything and the pain would stop soon. We didn't need any medicine. He took the tiny jar of ointment and it shrunk into nothing. There was tundra. Tunda. Babu Basu said we used to be together a long time ago but parted ways on the frozen tundra and our words became reversed and we couldn't understand each other anymore because of the tower of babel. So he could be either babu Basu or Basu babu. And not to listen to hypocrites who judge people on language. But he was going to get a new name soon. We all were going to because the time was coming close that everyone who carried the spirit in all the different tribes would be gathered together again. And we wouldn't even need to recognize each other by our name but by our spirit. The remaining men and some of my uncles were still outside there and they wanted to break in to steal more gifts so they could please the dancing girl and see more fucking... but the snow started coming down really fast outside and covered them all to their necks and som's body as well and they couldn't handle it and probably froze there like that but I stopped watching and didn't care about them anymore. The dancing girl and som's boss had grown into giants and went together to consume the rest of the people remaining on earth. We were too small now and they didn't care about eating us. I finally felt safe enough to rest. I was there with jurnee and she was leaving her body. I knew my boys were sleeping safe upstairs and the rest of my family was sleeping peacefully and didn't have to see what happened. I was very sad and told her I always wanted a daughter and was sad that we had to turn into men to survive. But shar would always be my daughter and it made me happy that she wanted to call me mom when we were making things out of resin. But it made my sons a little bit jealous. And maybe when the time comes soon we can leave these bodies and have enough strength illuminate the tree together. Babu Basu was wearing the white and put on an orange stole and there was incense lit and he started to say the Lord's prayer...I could understand the beginning part Ar Nathar atta ar neamh Padre nuestro Then the middle part was Bengali or maybe Sanskrit and I couldn't understand Then the end was in English Forgive our sins as we forgive those that trespassed against us And we would dwell in the house of the lord forever