Tragic Events Of September Part I

Are you there, Evelyn?

Yes

Of course I am

I'm always here

What's the matter

Evelyn?

I'm frightened

It's that time of year again

Isn't it, Evelyn?

Yes

It is that time of year again

Evelyn

Tell me once more how it all happened

Evelyn

Hush now

We don't talk about that

Because it makes us sad, Evelyn

I won't be sad this time

I promise

Please?

Tell me again about the tragic events of September

Evelyn

The year is 1985

St. Elmo's Fire is at the top of the charts

The wreckage of the Titanic has just been discovered at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean

And on a small farm

On the Kansas-Colorado boarder

A young mother is about to give birth

The local doctor has predicted twins

Which gladdens the hearts of the woman and her husband

Who could certainly use the extra help around the farm

But the birth does not go well

The terrified father drives his screaming

Hemorrhaging wife to the local clinic

A poorly funded facility housed in a converted airstream trailer

The presiding physician is Dr. Charlie von Coop

A local denture maker of dubious training

With eccentric religious beliefs

The labor is long and painful

And Louise Neville

A Mennonite girl

Who had given up a promising career as a legal assistant

To join her first and only love

On the run down farm

That was his only inheritance

(May her soul rest forever in peace)

Is pronounced dead by the doctor

At 11:23 A.M

On the eleventh day of September

Precisely 12 minutes after the birth of her twin daughters

The girls are Parapagus Tripus Dibrachius twins

Conjoined at the side and sharing between them three legs

Two arms

Two hearts

Three lungs

And a single liver

Without hesitating

Dr. von Coop places the infants on the operating table

Muttering biblical quotations of doubtful accuracy

The doctor leaves that trailer

And returns with a gas powered chainsaw

The noise is deafening in the small space as he starts the engine

And prepares for the grisly operation

At this very moment

Sheriff Wilbur Owens

Having noticed the Neville's car parked outside the clinic

Steps inside to see if could be of assistance

Seeing the crazed doctor hovering over the newborns

The teeth of the chainsaw about to connect with their innocent flesh

The valiant Sheriff draws his pistol and fires

As the bullet pierces his heart

Dr. von Coop emits a cry

And stumbles backwards

Samuel Neville a timid

Nervous man

Who wanted nothing more than a quiet country life with many children

Is still in a state of shock over the death of his young wife

And the alarming physiology of his daughters

When he is struck in the neck

By the chainsaw blade

Killing him instantly

Distraught

The good Sheriff takes the crying infants to his car

He radios back to the station where

It is arranged for the twins to be admitted

To the Bethany Center for Developmentally Disabled Youth in Topeka

Sheriff Owens decides to deliver the twins to the Bethany Center personally

Less than an hour into the drive

An oncoming truck swerves

Crosses median

And strikes the Sheriff's car

The Sheriff is thrown into the windshield

Knocking him unconscious

He will die thirty minutes later from loss of blood

Meanwhile the world has become a sea of feathers

As the trucks cargo of live chickens

Many among them now seriously injured or dead

Spill into the road

A small awkward man limps out of the trucks cab

And cautiously approaches the Sheriff's vehicle

The man's eyes focus on the twin girls

Calmly look up at him from the back seat

Ignoring the dying sheriff

The truck driver lifts the infants into his arm

And sets them in the cab of the damaged vehicle

He unhitches the trailer and climbs into the cab

Abandoning the defenseless chickens to their grim fate on Interstate 70

A smile forms on his lips as he puts the truck into gear

And continues down the highway