The Divers and Other Mysteries of Seattle by Jerome Gold

Author:Jerome Gold
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Black Heron Press
Published: 2014-11-27T05:00:00+00:00

Gravity

Sylvia Browne, the famous psychic, best-selling author, and founder of her own church, tells us that the Other Side is not a religious or ideological concept, but is an actual place located three feet above what we know as Earth. It is distinct from our Earth insofar as it exists in a dimension apart from those we recognize.

Actually, I suspected as much. Not the part about the Other Side being in another dimension, but that it is a place contiguous with our own world. I have thought this was true ever since I was nine years old and something or someone smacked me on the butt when I had it elevated as I hunkered down on my elbows in my bedroom, reading a comic book. As I recall, the smack didn’t hurt; it was, rather, as if someone had been walking by and decided in passing to swat me on the butt.

In a trice I was on my feet, searching the corners of my room for the perpetrator. I had, after all, thought I was alone, and the door was closed, as I had left it. Finding no one, I sought out first my mother, then my father, and finally my sister, asking each in turn if she or he had just been in my room. In turn, each said no. I believed them, as they all looked at me as if I were genuinely nuts. Why was I asking? my mother wanted to know. She was hanging clothes on a line in the backyard and she had a clothespin in her mouth, but I understood her.

“Someone just hit me on the butt,” I said.

My mother laughed but she kept the clothespin in her mouth and her laughter came around it on either side, making little puffing sounds. “Go ask your father,” she croaked.

I found my father lying on his side on the front lawn, a pile of crab grass near his left arm, a trench knife in his right hand, digging in the dirt in front of him. He also asked why I was asking.

“Someone just hit me on the butt.”

“You probably deserved it. When are you going to come out here and help me weed the lawn?”

I pretended I hadn’t heard him and went back inside the house and into my sister’s room where she was playing house and talking with her invisible friend and I accused her of going in my room when I wasn’t looking and hitting me on the butt.

She laughed, but then she started to cry and said she was going to tell our mom that I was accusing her of things. As I left her room, I heard her cry change to a laugh again.

This was the first incident I can recall for which there was no explanation other than the one I came up with, to wit: someone from another, invisible, dimension had crossed into our world, smacked me on my butt, and ducked back into his or her own world.

As I

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