The Car Accident

1985 – Somehow the lead car lost a tire as if it was duct taped to the axle.  As it scraped 180 degree sparks and rammed the Castillion‘s (John Atrevido del Castillo II) limo, a huge ball of flame blinded both drivers.  The Dead Man’s Curve on Portland, Oregon’s HWY 1 kicked the lead car into the ocean like a pissed off 8-year old.  Father and son, alone and bleeding profusely, sat in their hulking tomb bound by seatbelt lassos and angular metal.  The Castillion’s driver had eaten the steering wheel, severing his lower jaw like a weakly attached piece of playdough on a poorly constructed claymation shoot.  Father looked at son and said, “I know you’re too young, but you HAVE to take it now or we are finished.”  A windshield ice scraper does the trick as the father rips through his own cartilage and spreads his ribs apart.  His son quickly rummages around his dying father’s torso until he finds his heart.  He loses two more baby teeth to the meal he’s forced to ingest in order to continue their immortality.  After a long and grueling night, the son finds his way home and tries to explain what happened to his mother.  She is aghast, but pays off the police to hide what she thinks (or seems to think) is a psychotic break by her 11-year old son.

Estranged, but still the first born and begrudgingly looked after solely by his mother, the patricidal Castillion has to navigate yet another life in an exhausting series of lives.  This time he WILL get his hands dirty.