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Blue

Terry Sanville

    A full moon cast a blue pale over the fields. Jack pushed through chest-high wheat toward the horizon. The air popped with electricity. In the distance a freight train rumbled. He reached a farm road and turned toward a ghostly white house and beckoning barn lights. Something dark blotted out the moon. A wind tore at his pajamas.
    The train sound grew louder. The wind ripped the clothes from his body, knocked him to the ground. He felt dazed, yet free and aroused. The moon reappeared. A woman walked toward him, her naked body sparked like fireflies on a hot Pennsylvania night. Three children trailed her.
    “Hey, I’m here.” Jack stood and waved his arms above his head.
    “I’m coming,” she said.
    She had large breasts and broad hips that swayed as she moved. He tried to cover himself. She turned off the road into the field. Her head and shoulders bobbed above the wheat. He chased her and caught up. They kissed.
    Nearby, their children giggled. “Tag, you’re it,” one of them called and they tore off across the field.
    Jack lowered his wife to the ground. She encircled him with her legs. Close by the children’s laughter turned to screams. Pieces of bodies flew overhead: arms, legs, feet, hands, fingers, toes, noses, eyes, ears. They circled above, turning slowly, as if in some gruesome Salvador Dali mobile. Yet the shrieks continued, echoing along a dark corridor. Jack clutched his wife, buried his face in her tangled hair. She shuddered, then shuddered again.
    Gradually the world around them changed. Darkness and light flashed past. The sound of a muted siren filled his head. Jack stared upward at the metal roof of the shaking ambulance. His wife clutched his arm and kissed his forehead. He tried to speak but nothing sounded, his lips unable to form words, even simple ones.
    “Probably a psychotic break of some kind,” the attendant murmured to Jack’s wife.
    She sighed. “Yes, you’re probably right. We’ve been here before.”
    “What do you think triggers them?”
    She blushed and joined Jack in silence.

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