Girl, You Make Me Lose My Mind

[anti_zeitgeist]

Is it very bad that I am watching one of my dodgy aweseome true crime shows while I eat my lunch and singing Frankie Valli and The Four Season's 'Sherry' as the detectives try to find what would have been a fatal wound on the decomposing corpse of a murder victim by the name of Sherry who was left for dead on train-tracks (and was later run over)

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[lwebstar]

I was a little girl (I don't remember how old. Maybe 6 years old. My brother is 1.5 years older than me and I remember him wearing dorky childish sweat clothes that no older kid would wear). I was with my aunt (my mom's crazy sister) and we were at a large wooded park. Don't remember which one. But we had walked the trail and her and my brother decided they didn't want to walk all the way back and it would be easier to just walk along the train tracks. I protested as I had a natural fear of trains even before this event. But being a little girl, no one listened to me. So we walked along the tracks and jsut as we got to a little train bridge that was over a creek, a train came the other way and we had to run in a panic across the train bridge and down the side to where the creak was to avoid getting hit by the train. We had to climb over the fense and my brother rips the butt of his sweat pants. But we managed to get out safely. My aunt then turned to us and said "Better not tell your mom" or something along those lines. And I never did. Even to this day. Mostly now I am afraid to tell her because I know she will be angry and probably doesn't really want to know. Anyways, that event stuck out in my mind for the rest of my life making me afraid of getting hit by trains (I can ride them no problem because obviously I can't get hit by a train if I am inside it). I have gone through times where I have nightmares about trains, even in the last year. So yes, I have a fear of trains. Nothing bad may have happened of that event, and I don't know that my brother has any fear from that day, but I was a little girl and it was terrifying to me. I don't think my aunt has any idea of the terror it caused me. None of us spoke of it after that day.

[anti_zeitgeist]

That's really pretty scary. I remember that before my grandmother died, she told me that you have to be careful on escalators because she saw a little boy's feet get ripped off and I was paranoid for years. I was pretty gullible as a kid, but I never had anything as bad as the train episode happen to me.

[lwebstar]

yeah, escalators used to scare me. I find it hard to believe that feet could actually get ripped off though. In the X-Files, one guy died from being inside the escalator when it started to run. hehehe, he was a pretty creepy dude so I was happy to see him crunched up.

So that train thing. Hehehehehehehe, I got a little dark and twisty tonight and incorporated it into my novel. I'd love to see what my brother and aunt think when they read that scene, if they will even remember or anything, if my family will finally learn the truth about that. It's interesting how writing such a traumatic thing from my past into my fictional novel that I claim is all fictional can give me such satisfaction. I feel quite happy at this moment just having finished writing that scene :)