Missing Time by Budd Hopkins

Author:Budd Hopkins [Hopkins, Budd]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

VH: I sit on the grass… the grass is very thick and green. I blow the dandelions. I always like them because they are so fluffy. I sit under a big oak tree that has a big swing in it, and I like to swing, and I like to look at all the plants and flowers, and I have my own little garden with things growing up although I was disappointed that they didn’t come out as neat as Mama’s garden did. It’s sort of all mixed up and I can’t actually tell exactly which were the weeds and which were the flowers… but I expect the weeds to turn into flowers. I didn’t pull out anything. That’s my garden. It’s supposed to grow… and I walk around the yard, pick up the dirt – the dirt’s moist. I look at the pigs… I like to look at the little piglets, and I walk up the hill. I look for some interesting stones and sometimes I see lizards all around. They’re scary, but I kind of like them. They’re like little rocks, but I don’t like to pick them up. I look for interesting rocks and I look at the big piles of cow manure… they’re really huge… and I like the barn. We used to have more animals. Now I think we just have a few chickens. There is one horse or maybe two horses. I go in to get the eggs. I remember the feeling of those nice, warm tummies and putting my hand under each tummy. They don’t always have eggs under them… and so I have to feel around… they have fat tummies, so you sort of have to poke around… and sometimes there are two eggs. I don’t think the eggs were gathered every day. So I gather them, I think there are eight or nine of them and they were brown.

I remember I always liked eggs, even when I was littler. My grandmother had a porcelain egg for darning and I was very attached to it and I got one for my birthday. I like it. I always like eggs. They had such a nice feeling.

So I get all the eggs that I can and I go to the house and I remember that my leg itched – itched, you know, like it itches when you – if you accidentally sprinkled water… It’s the sensation of having fluid on the surface… that kind of an itch – and I reached down to scratch and it still itches, so I pull up my jeans and – I wasn’t looking at my leg, just reached my hand down and my hand feels all wet, so then I look down and my hand is all covered with blood and I see blood on my leg and I’m really surprised because I’m afraid of blood and being cut and how could I be covered with blood and I thought, well, I wonder if it’s something from a chicken or something.

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