The Crazies

Welcome & Author's Note

Dear Reader, 

I am formally warning anyone who wishes to read this story about this story and its plot. In this story, I am planning to include gruesomely accurate depictions of scenes and feelings. This means actually gruesome situations, extreme hallucinations, stories of abuse and psychotic  people. I will also be thoroughly describing  characters who have extreme (which means rare and fictional) mental illnesses. This means that any and all language I use to describe these characters are most certainly exaggerating. There will also be some time skips, since it is a journal. 

The real-life illnesses that I am putting in this book will be researched so that they are not used improperly or misunderstood. I hope that people who read this gain a bit more understanding of some of the illnesses that enter this book. Enjoy. 

                                                                                                     Sincerely, Acphine Fernfury

*And so it begins*

Hello, whoever has found my diary. I am Aurora Albergo. If you have found this journal, it means that I am long dead and you have explored my family's mansion a bit more than we would have liked. I have used this journal to write down all peculiar events and mishaps that happen in our family. 

Wednesday, August 12, 1936

Hello journal. I have just received you for my 16th birthday. My Grandfather told me that I should write here to express myself or something. He also said I should write here because it's rare in normal society as he says for a lady to write. That doesn't really seem sensible to me because most of the women in my family can read and write. But I don't mind that. 

Friday, August 14, 1936

I have been exploring our house since the day Grandfather gave me the journal. Mother keeps telling me that I need to stop acting silly and meet with the suitors she keeps bringing to the house. By this time, she says, she had met Father and were courting. Mother doesn't know of the Family history like I do. Grandfather has told me many times. 

He always starts with my Great-Great-Great Grandmother. The oldest known person in our family to live in this house. She is my Grandfather's Father's Grandmother. She was the 12th recorded in our family history to be completely psycho. And yet here we are being her descendants. The being psycho part goes to the start of our family - and how the family is so rich and powerful. 

We in the family call it the disease, or sickness. It has been many things; I have read the extensive records of the diseased people in our family, and it has been from extreme mental illnesses like severe schizophrenia to minor things like asthma. 

I hope you are enjoying it so far. Sorry about the short chapter, but I'm giving you as the readers a taste of what is to come in this story.  Aloha!