Bloody Grandpa

Day 4. Describe a real or made-up dream or nightmare.

I am at the house where my father grew up. The house is located in a small village which is almost abandoned after the fall of communism and the only remaining residents are the gypsies who are slowly taking over the forsaken houses. When I was little my father told me stories about how that village was a prosperous town before and how he played games that don’t involve computers with his friends. He was always half-smiling, half-frowning when he told me these stories.

My father’s house is a little to the north from the center in the direction of the cemetery. It is a nice old house on two floors with a kitchen, a big empty living room, one big hallway and two small bedrooms. It has an inside and an outside restroom, a workshop attached to the house and something like storehouse. The garden in front of the house isn’t as big as the neighbor’s gardens but there’s enough room for a rows of wine vines, a place to grow cabbages, onions, tomatoes, pumpkins and also a few fruit-trees, including a gigantic pear tree that has a crown as big as the whole house.

My nightmare involved my grandfather and my grandmother. I was coming from outside and was just entering my house, when something wild flashed past me and attacked my grandparents. I didn’t see anything there just a small shadow whizzing above their heads. From somewhere I pulled a bath and started swinging it in air where I thought the animal was. I was still at the door and my grandparents were one or two meters from me and I was wildly swinging the bat around them, trying to kill whatever they were screaming about. I didn’t see anything but a small shadow flashing above their heads and making them scream. And I kept swinging and swinging, not seeing what and where I hit. When I finally calmed down a saw my grandfather smiling at me with blood leaking out of his mouth and saying “You killed him, son, you killed him.” Then I saw medics taking him out of the house and then I woke up. It was a really creepy nightmare.