The incision was quick, the leg was amputated quickly and efficiently. Blood poured onto the floor and it yet remained to be seen if recovery was possible. The patient's screams echoed chillingly around the theater but the audience's faces were devoid of any emotion but curiosity.
Dr Lavestone placed the amputation knife into he tin of boiling water and returned to his patient, screams and howls now muffled out by the doctor's hand. He slipped the leather into the patient's mouth.

"Bite on this, it will help you cope with the pain" he said emotionlessly.

The tears caused by the intense pain trickled down the frantic patient's cheek. The nurse, being a sentimental old fool, felt pity and took it upon herself to loosen the bonds the strapped the patient safely but cruelly to the table.

"No you fool!" the good Doctor cried.

The patient's frantic convulsing tensed his muscles causing a violent jab of his clenched fist into the nurse's stomach/womb area. Blood started to pour from the nurse as she collapsed to the dusty ground.

"The patient is possessed!" one of the footment shouted "He has the strength of a daemon!"

As Dr Lavestone fell to the nurse's aid, the footmen ran to hold down the patient who had slipped from his bonds and smashed his fist into the trolly of instruments, cleaving the metal in two.

"My god!" someone in the audience cried "The Doctor has driven daemons into the man's mind!"

This unknowing accusation caused uproar in the audience. Jeers and shouts of such a manner as "The Doctor is in league with the Devil!" and "Demon Doctor!".

Some fled, fearful of of the possibility of witchcraft being present. The footmen backed away from this worker of evil.

"Look!" Cried the most outspoken member of the aghast audience "He is driving daemons into the nurse's mind!"

Meanwhile in Croydon, a farmer's wife plucked up enough courage to wrestle with an acorn in her stepfather's bathchair.



Ille nubes obscurus de damnum obscuro viva nunc possum viva semper sum ille idem?

from A Very Small Thin Doodle Book. There were two of them. I was reading a lot of The Crow at the time and listening to Sisterhood - Gift album (which is really Andrew Eldritch from Sisters of Mercy). It proved quite a creative time. This story was made part famous in certain circles by it being read out on the Jesus Tape -Derek