Haunting Visions and The Black Hand In The Garden

Haunting Visions and The Black Hand In The Garden


The retired elderly priest sat at his desk reading a copy of Saint Augustine's major work The City of God.


Feeling a bit drowsy, he took off his glasses and put them on his desk.

He went over to his arm chair to rest.

He fell asleep.

He dreamed he was standing in Saint Peter's Square amongst a group of religious pilgrims.


They were waiting for the Pope to appear at the Vatican window to give his blessing.


Suddenly black darkened skies appeared over the dome of Saint Peter's Basilica.


Huge raindrops the colour of blood fell from the sky.

The blood red rain drops fell on to the square turning it into a flowing river of blood.

People screamed and started to run.

The rain suddenly stopped and a peculiar rainbow that continued to drip blood appeared over the dome of the Basilica.

People turned into pillars of salt as they stood and gazed at the rainbow.

The retired elderly priest was knocked to the ground by a Middle Eastern looking man who shouted "Allah Akbar!".


Loud speakers in the square suddenly started playing the voice of Barack Obama saying, "The United States strongly condemns these attacks. However we also strongly say that none of this would have happened had the world strongly listened to what the United States government dictated which is that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad must go in any and all circumstances without any discussion or questioning of U.S. State Department communiques and my own Executive Orders.  The Syrian people and the Syrian people alone should decide who their leaders should be.  And bearing that in mind, we say and we insist that Bashar Assad should go without any more questioning or discussion and he has no more part to play whatsoever in Syria's future. So our Imperial wisdom hath decreed."


An earthquake suddenly shook the City of Rome and the Basilica was destroyed.


The retired elderly priest suddenly awoke with a start.


He suddenly heard a tapping at his door.


He got up from his armchair and went over to the door to answer it.

He opened the door and looked around.

No one there.

He was about to shut the door when suddenly he noticed a severed charcoal burnt Black Hand crawling through the garden.

Grabbing his Breviary and his rosary, the retired elderly priest walked out to the garden and said the  Saint Michael Prayer as well as a prayer of Exorcism.


He looked around.


The Black Hand was gone.

Still the elderly priest could not shake off the feeling that the Black Hand would be back bringing war and death in its wake.


Making the Sign of the Cross, the retired elderly priest - Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI- left the grounds of the Vatican Garden and returned to his living quarters and shut the door.


-A vampire novel chapter
 written by Christopher
 Thursday November 26th
 2015.


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