Snow falls as Anne looks out her attic window. Below her, Brown Goblins prepare for another book burning. Their hideous grunts and screams fill the afternoon. Soon the air is black with fire, soot and ash. The Brown Goblins howl triumphantly.
The next morning Anne hears a commotion outside her attic window. She takes a sip of chestnut tea and looks out at the scene below. She sees the Brown Goblins stacking more books for another bonfire. She takes another sip of chestnut tea and thinks, “I thought they burnt all the books yesterday.”
But then she remembers Brown Goblins always save one book so they can do a reprint. Brown Goblins love to howl and scream. Once they screamed and screamed and screamed until all the birds with purple feathers fell from the sky dead. She shakes her head and goes back to eating her moon pudding made from scratch.
Anne is wrapped in her blankets sound asleep having a most curious dream that she’s in a city that she’s never visited before in front of an old, tall apartment building. She sees a hideous Brown Goblin slowly walking up to the front door and his arm is wrapped around a young girl who every so often kisses the Goblin which makes him grunt and hiss.
Anne is so disgusted by this, she drops to one knee, pulls out a gun and unloads it into the Brown Goblin’s back. The Brown Goblin falls to the ground. Hideous gas and screams fill the air as the Brown Goblin dies. As Anne starts to load her gun again, the girl runs up, thrusting pen and paper into her hands asking for an autograph. Anne politely signs it and then looks up into the beaming face of herself.
Sirens fill the night air as Brown Goblins start to surround…
Excerpt from “The Electric Diary” by Shaun Partridge, chapter “Princess Anne and the Brown Goblins”.
Poster by Whale Song Partridge, 1972
