The Real Life Ending to 'The Jilted Arbor of Bell's Neck' is Stranger Than the Fiction....

 by Bill Russo 

So because of not being used to the clocks being turned back, I woke up at 3:55 a.m. this morning, the day after daylight savings time ended (November 2, 2020) and could not go back to sleep.

I began writing a story called 'The Jilted Arbor of Bell's Neck" which ends in a tree where the enigmatic word 'Jilted' had been carved in huge letters.

As I ended the story with a bird pecking away at those letters, I was distracted by a rhythmic tapping on my window. The window by the way is on the third floor, some 30 feet above the ground!

I was wrapped up in finishing my story with a bird tapping away at the carving on the tree....

but the tapping persisted at my window...and when I looked i was shocked to see............

a large white bird with black speckles, and a big red dot on the back of its head, tapping on my window.

I grabbed my camera and took several pictures of it. Then I tapped back at it and joined it in a duet of tapping, me on the inside and the bird tapping and walking across the window as if it had magnetic feet!

This continued for two full minutes, until finally the strange bird had its say and left.

It left behind however the photographic evidence that you see below!

This is not the first encounter I have had with the weird (Think ee-wahn chu, puckwudgies and the Bridgewater Triangle) and I guess it will not be the last!

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Bill Russo, best known for his appearance on Monsters and Mysteries in America on Destination America, and in the Bridgewater Triangle Documentary; is the author of more than four dozen books and shorts stories, available on all major bookselling sites such as Amazon, Apple, Barnes and Noble and more.  Much of his work is FREE on Smashwords.  

He is also the producer, writer, director, and sometimes performer in the free podcast,

Bill Russo's Short Story Theater.

The program is currently in its second season with more than 40 episodes available for listening on all podcast sites from Apple to Zebra, World-wide.

The original audio play of 'Sherlock Holmes on Cape Cod' has had thousands of listeners and even drew high praise from a Sherlock Holmes society based in London. Google Bill Russo's Short Story Theater, Sherlock Holmes on Cape Cod, to listen for free. https://www.spreaker.com/user/11578348/sherlock-holmes-on-cape-cod