W. Bruce Cameron 7/7/11

The Mysterious Case of the Horse in the Night Time

W. BRUCE CAMERON

Sometimes when my parents talk to me I can feel my brain turning over in its grave. Their stories can take on a surreal, surely-someone-slipped-me-some-LSD aspect.

For example: Just past midnight a few nights ago, my mother awoke to the sound of a horse throwing up in the backyard.

My mother has never heard a horse throw up before, so it is pretty impressive that she was able to identify the species of the animal solely by the noise it was making. When she looked out into the night, she couldn’t see anything, but “I knew,” she...