Blue Journal by Jessica Singleton
Side note to reader
This is a fictional story idea. It has not happened to me and it will NOT happen to anyone else. I was going to enter it into a writing competition but I changed my mind. By writing this, I do not give anyone in the universe permission to do anything in this story.
Jessa was a pale thin autistic woman. Talking felt like an effort to climb barefoot to the top of mount everest. It took her 20 years to come to a routine that worked for her.
Her life changed in the blink of the eye when she rode the wrong train one morning.
A man was riding the train with a hostage. The former hostage died from a heart attack. The man needed a living hostage.
The man replaced his hostage with Jessa by kidnapping her.
For anyone else this would be scary enough. But for Jessa it was a utopia of the belly of hell.
She was rescued fast because someone found the hostage's dead body.
Unfortunately for Jessa, it shattered her spirit.
Jessa became a brick wall from her former self. To speak in silence, by the pain in her eyes. The tides would turn ever so often and she would cry herself to sleep.
Her mother Jonie decided to take Jessa's favorite pastime of reading mysteries & puzzles to try to reach her.
Jonie brought Jessa a journal she made. She knew Jessa liked snacks so she put kosher treats in it.
The journal was written in-between first person of the life of a caged bird named Toy & letter form to the reader. Toy was from an animal shelter because he came from a bad background. On some pages a stick of gum was there for the reader if they would put birdseed outside for all the hungry birds of the world. Jessa wanted to help the bird. It got her going outside. Jessa eventually became a volunteer at the local animal shelter. By working with animals who needed to learn to trust again, Jessa got better.
