Though she loved her husband,
in a dream she copulated with a
handsome man who after the
love making revealed himself as
a terrifying demon.
She woke up frightened, relieved
it was only a nightmare.
She became pregnant not long
after that, something she and
her husband had been unable
to do.
When her child was born, she
had the feeling her baby girl
was evil, as if somehow she
was the spawn of the demon.
She put that foolish thought
out of her head, and her child
was a normal child until her
seventh year.
Then she heard her child
whisper inside her head that
she hated her father
and he’d soon be dead.
A day later, the child’s father
hung himself to death in the
cellar of their house.
And she felt the horror of
knowing her first impression
of the child was right.
She lost her mind over the
fact her child was a demon’s
spawn and the anguish of
her husband’s death.
Crazed, she grabbed a knife
from a kitchen drawer and
stabbed her child to death.
Now she spends the rest of
her days locked away in an
asylum for the insane and
babbles crazy talk about
copulating with a demon.
Bob Boyd