Beach. A wine bottle on the sand. I pick it up.

Inside, a black thing squirming.

Despite all I know of vengeful djinn trapped in bottles a thousand years, I pull the cork.

The black oozes out. Crows! Ratty, half-featherless, skeletal crows. Been trapped a long time I guess. Two adults and their child. They have antennae like butterflies or moths.

The young one looks sickly--has a huge horrible parasite crawling out of its bill. Luridly colored segments. Sickening to see. But the chick opens beak wide and the parasite, even larger than I thought, crawls out completely. To my surprise the chick is still alive and whole--was it a giant bug the chick was trying to swallow, not a parasite at all?

Look closer at the monster. A fetal or new-hatched crow, not a bug! Weird colors because featherless, but by the embryonic features it'll grow into a crow with antennae, like its parents. As glad now I didn't intervene about the "parasite" as I am that I DID intervene about the bottle. They'll be all right now.

NOTES:

While drawing a dream ("A Sphinx's Sketchbook") I quoted that joking Greek definition of humanity: "featherless bipeds." Well, here they are. I also worked on a dream-comic, "Bonk Veronica" which has chicks in a nest being fed Warm.Wet.Worms by their mom, the ScreenBird.com

Crows = anarchy, fun, raucousness?

Starved, repressed birds = the support group of anorexics I still go to now and then, though I'm eating pretty well these days. Still, I WAS feeling a bit starved--socially starved. So I went. Mostly women--"birds". How I wish I really could let them out of their prisons!

Worm = what horrifies you now is just the fetal stage of a wild new life. Let it grow!

So... let the darkness out of your bottle.

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