Lying supine on the bed of leaves with her arms extended, Allie gave in to the agonizing pain radiating outward from her inguinal area to her caudal fin. “To be only half a monster is insanity!” she cried out, repudiating the only way she knew how and with what limited strength that remained her accursed hybrid condition and damned post mortem existence (cf. Victor Hugo, Notre-Dame de Paris, Book 8, Chapter 4). How did she not see it coming to this? What had she done during her previous lifetime to deserve her hellish afterlife as half skeleton, half mermaid? What perverse god in the heavens thought it just to hand down such a cruel and capricious punishment? Hers was no gift.
At that very moment, a searing pain around her anal vent overtook Allie so forcefully that her garbanzos popped out of their sockets. She started releasing what felt like fifty thousand and one eggs, all of them atretic and the last one of a crystalline composition more perfect and of an appearance more dazzling than centuries of alchemy and sorcery had ever produced. (No. 11)
Forsaken on her leaf mound which, dear reader (and there’s probably only one of you out there), covered the very spot where Allie’s parents had thawed and dislodged her from her icy manger years ago, Allie took one final breath and re-died. (No. 12)
At some point before dawn, the seafood vendor’s cat extricated Allie’s remains from the mound and carried them off, leaving her uninseminable eggs to the rats and the elements (No. 13). The vendor thanked his kitty for the gift and then buried Allie’s remains deep within the trash so that the cat couldn’t retrieve them. (No. 14).
Blind Allie’s Dolores Street (a.k.a. Way of Sorrows)
No. 1: Allie becomes aware that the time has come for her to spawn (4:3)
No. 2: Allie accepts her fate (5:1)
No. 3: Allie flounders for the first time (5:2)
No. 4: Allie sees her mother in a vision (5:2)
No. 5: A shopkeeper helps Allie advance towards the market by propelling her with the jet from his hose (5:2)
No. 6: A Veronica’s Unicorn Rental delivery van washes Allie’s face with a splash from a puddle as it passes her in the street (5:2)
No. 7: Allie flounders for the second time (5:2)
No. 8: Allie is lifted from the gutter by two women from town (5:2)
No. 9: Allie flounders for the third time (5:2)
No. 10: Allie is stripped of the skins covering her chickpea eyes (5:2)
No. 11: Allie releases her eggs (5:3)
No. 12: Allie dies on a mound of leaves (5:3)
No. 13: Allie is removed from the mound by the seafood vendor’s cat (5:3)
No. 14: Allie is buried in the trash (5:3)
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