
Tales Of Ordinary Madness
Could somebody brief me about this book a little.
I'm planning to read it once i finish reading 'Post Office'.

Could somebody brief me about this book a little.
I'm planning to read it once i finish reading 'Post Office'.
Currently I'm reading the Post Office my second Charles Bukowski book this year.
I've read it 41% which means 90 pages and I'll finish it by mid October.
I want to start this book but I know I won't be able to finish it in 2026.
From which of his finest works should I start first? Because this book contains all of his most famous writings.
Should I start with the Trial?
Anybody please?
I've been a Reddit user since a year and a long time lurker.
And today is the day i decide to post what I've been experiencing recently.
So It all starts at around 11:00 pm when a hush of cold breeze enters my through the window.
I sleep close to the window on a convertible bed which I can fold and spread as per my comfort.
I keep it as a sofa due to my disability and comfort.
I prefer cramped up small spaces because it feels cozy.
So after 11:00 pm a hush of breeze enters through my room and it enters as if it carries a message with itself.
Sounds quite normal and soothing but there's something more unnerving to it.
At around 11:25 pm I hear a voice, not a voice,not a noise but as if someone whispering.
I ignore it and plug in my earpods to listen to stories and try to fall asleep.
After midnight is what makes this mystery slowly unfold.
The whisper grows louder and louder,a bit vocal a bit close and repeating a word constantly.
A smell grows and becomes strong something like a mix of water and grass like it had recently rained.
The smell quite pungent and strong.
And then the small fades away and I hear my own voice whispering my name outside the window.
I know there's something looking outside for me pay attention to it but the instincts are so strong that i barely even glance outside.
After a while I give it a quick glance and see nothing almost nothing just pure silence and crickets making that earthly calm noise.
What the hell i freeze and realize that I'm not alone, there's someone carrying a message for me.
Again at around 3 in the night I hear the same whisper but this time no breeze.
Just a chilly cold air giving me goosebumps.
And the smell wasn't the same this time.
I wake up and bang my hand on the window but the whisper turns into a slow creepy laugh.
The smell so strong that i gag and too rusty and some kind of metal getting melted.
I hear my name my voice and this time it was clear that something wasn't definitely okay.
GET UP!!! GET UP!!! LOOK OUT!! LOOK OUT!!
Suddenly it's 3:45 and i just lay down silently and close my eyes giving the night a thought.
The voice doesn't stop, nor does the whisper and so are the words that i hear outside in my own voice.
I finally sir up and give a quick glance outside and see a figure crouch beneath the bushes.
It was not a human though, something resembling a mix of a dog, a jackal and a tail like a snake.
It slithers in the bushes and hides away in the darkness.
The darkness too pitch black that it almost vanishes without a trace.
I don't say that i dream but what i saw was in my complete consciousness.
I'm awake and in my complete senses, wanting to know what the hell was that.
And if it were a creature or an animal how would he mimic my voice and whisper.
Was it someone dead coming alive or was it really a creature out of nowhere.
I bang my hand again on the window and hear the same whisper and the same exact words that I've typed above.
I look outside and this time no creature or animal of any sort but a shadow barely visible.
I don't breath, i don't speak and i don't stare towards it.
I raise the curtains and the blinds and pull the bedsheet over and clutch my pillow as if it wanted to run away.
I shiver and take deep breaths slowly cuddling the pillow tight enough with my face buried so that whatever was outside couldn't hear me or even my breaths.
I don't know when I fall asleep but what i find between the window edges terrifies me almost every night.
I've been a Reddit user since a year and a long time lurker.
And today is the day i decide to post what I've been experiencing recently.
So It all starts at around 11:00 pm when a hush of cold breeze enters my through the window.
I sleep close to the window on a convertible bed which I can fold and spread as per my comfort.
I keep it as a sofa due to my disability and comfort.
I prefer cramped up small spaces because it feels cozy.
So after 11:00 pm a hush of breeze enters through my room and it enters as if it carries a message with itself.
Sounds quite normal and soothing but there's something more unnerving to it.
At around 11:25 pm I hear a voice, not a voice,not a noise but as if someone whispering.
I ignore it and plug in my earpods to listen to stories and try to fall asleep.
After midnight is what makes this mystery slowly unfold.
The whisper grows louder and louder,a bit vocal a bit close and repeating a word constantly.
A smell grows and becomes strong something like a mix of water and grass like it had recently rained.
The smell quite pungent and strong.
And then the small fades away and I hear my own voice whispering my name outside the window.
I know there's something looking outside for me pay attention to it but the instincts are so strong that i barely even glance outside.
After a while I give it a quick glance and see nothing almost nothing just pure silence and crickets making that earthly calm noise.
What the hell i freeze and realize that I'm not alone, there's someone carrying a message for me.
Again at around 3 in the night I hear the same whisper but this time no breeze.
Just a chilly cold air giving me goosebumps.
And the smell wasn't the same this time.
I wake up and bang my hand on the window but the whisper turns into a slow creepy laugh.
The smell so strong that i gag and too rusty and some kind of metal getting melted.
I hear my name my voice and this time it was clear that something wasn't definitely okay.
GET UP!!! GET UP!!! LOOK OUT!! LOOK OUT!!
Suddenly it's 3:45 and i just lay down silently and close my eyes giving the night a thought.
The voice doesn't stop, nor does the whisper and so are the words that i hear outside in my own voice.
I finally sir up and give a quick glance outside and see a figure crouch beneath the bushes.
It was not a human though, something resembling a mix of a dog, a jackal and a tail like a snake.
It slithers in the bushes and hides away in the darkness.
The darkness too pitch black that it almost vanishes without a trace.
I don't say that i dream but what i saw was in my complete consciousness.
I'm awake and in my complete senses, wanting to know what the hell was that.
And if it were a creature or an animal how would he mimic my voice and whisper.
Was it someone dead coming alive or was it really a creature out of nowhere.
I bang my hand again on the window and hear the same whisper and the same exact words that I've typed above.
I look outside and this time no creature or animal of any sort but a shadow barely visible.
I don't breath, i don't speak and i don't stare towards it.
I raise the curtains and the blinds and pull the bedsheet over and clutch my pillow as if it wanted to run away.
I shiver and take deep breaths slowly cuddling the pillow tight enough with my face buried so that whatever was outside couldn't hear me or even my breaths.
I don't know when I fell asleep but what i find between the window edges terrifies me almost every night.
What do you guys think!!?
I write because what I'm living with requires guts and instincts more than anything else.