EPISODE 10. PRIEST

Episode 10.
PRIEST

The rain pounds against my face. My eyes try to open. I remember something about the Belvedere Castle in the Rambles of Central Park. The blossoms that were in bloom one particular spring when I was there with an ex-girlfriend and a buddy long ago.

I blink my eyes and stretch out my hands but only feel water. Things start coming together. I’m lying up to my chest in black water at the bottom of a ditch. The rain continues to pour over the sides filling the pool even more.

I start to pull myself out of this mess when I see something out of the corner of my eye. I squint at it, and very slowly, whatever it is turns into a man. A man in a black suit…maybe wearing a priest’s collar. No. It’s a priest, crouching there on the rocks.

We stare at each other for a bit.

“They’ll be coming soon,” he say’s over the roar of the rain.

I blink the water out of my eyes, but when I look toward him again, he’s gone.

“I’m fucked up,” I think to myself. And then, slowly, my eyes begin to close.