Onion Songs

BRAIN OF SHADOWS

While he was asleep someone played with a flashlight in his head.

The intruder was silent but betrayed his or her presence when sudden flashes illuminated the figures in the dream, making them cower and cover their eyes and revealing the landscape they walked in to be no more than paper, plaster, and cheap paint.

Have some courtesy, he mumbled in his sleep, and his dream folk nodded their agreement.

The intruder stumbled and accidentally flashed the light on himself to reveal a biblical figure in long white robes and a beard.

The next night the dream folk were all wearing dark glasses and the body of God lay broken and bleeding behind the sets.