"The Bird Room."
Added 2024-06-22 07:30:10 +0000 UTCThere was a house in New Berlin Wisconsin.
It was white on a hill, surrounded by other houses that looked exactly like it.
There was a swing set.
There was a well...
The well was covered over with rocks.
Yellow light: flooded the basement.
Feathers and food: all over the floor.
Hundreds of birds: screeching and shitting hide the sound.
Deeply unhappy to never see the sun.
Brown panels hide the walls.
Behind oddly tall human-sized cages.
This isn't for a story I'm writing.
It's a real basement that existed in New Berlin Wisconsin.
It still exists to this day.
Although I hope the cages aren't still there.
I used my memory, Google Earth and Some simple blueprints to recreate the layout from the first house I ever lived in.
Somewhere behind the brown panels, behind the bird cages, there was an opening pthat led into a gray rocky tunnel you could barely squeeze into.
I could never remember where it goes and I was always made to go first.
Reality is so much more horrifying than fiction.
