Inky Tragic Umbra

The Whisper

Erratic waters rise, gumbo entraps the townsfolk.

Atticus Dawn spins out his ford F150 Raptor, in front of the Hellenic Police Station or Interpol as our friends in Greece would determine.

All indications of Atticus point to a well off, coke nosed, egocentric prick! Pink polo, baby blue slacks topped down with pristine SR Oxfords priced at about seven grand! Even his wavy dirty blond locks looked pricy.

The station is riddled with the non commoners all trying to leave for their weekend excursions on the waters or nearby resorts. Unfortunately this Friday night the docks were closed due to storm and the roads swamped in due to the rain.

Keoghan Knots is a playground for tourists and a haven for the wealthy. Everyone looked the part, whether that be a commoner (poor) or affluent!

Atticus pushes through the crowd and demands to speak to someone about opening the back road!

"Officer, I'm pressed for time I have to get a party!
(The officer looking dis alarmed by the very well known Millennial says) not all roads lead to privilege, someone should've taught you that! NEXT!"
It's a humanitarian event, I'm a social worker presenting?!?"

(Again the officer sees his polo, and ignores Atticus' words)

Atticus paces around the mission contemplating his predicament of misfortune.
It's then he sees an officer dragging in a frantic beggarly school boy. He couldn't have been more than sixteen.

The boy is slammed up against a wall and told to sit and shut up!
His head nods side to side as though attempting to establish an understanding from something or someone.

"It's not me. I don't know. I can't right now, they won't let me go!!"
This is what the boy repeats in an almost tearful rant.

Atticus asks the officer about the boy, and he's told: "another addict kid messed up on methamphetamine".
There was an influx in town apparently.

The officer looks at Atticus and says:
"but you'd probably know that wouldn't ya, Mr.Dawn?"

Atticus decides to sit next to the boy. Finally catching his eye, he asks him:

"What's your name kid?
Finch?
Who you talking to, Finch?
The whisper...
Does the whisper always talk to you?
The pills, I ran out!
It's ok bud, I got you!"

Atticus grabs Finch's hand and remembers a time when the whisper visited him. You see once an upon a time Atticus was an undiagnosed schizophrenic, who used street drugs to erase the empty threats of his mind. Though he wasn't rugged or a commoner, he was rich and neglected.
Same emptiness and ignorance from others!

Atticus approaches the officer again, this time as though he pioneered the idea of making a human connection springs on the idea of the whisper and what it meant.

"Does this whisper have a face Mr. Dawn?

Yes it does,
it's mine
and his mind.
Finch is his name, and he is a schizophrenic not an addict!"

Mental Health Screams in a Whisper, take time to hear!