The Entrails of Mr. Fleddie: Fantasy/Horror

A secret message came to him that day, written in the entrails of his pet bird. He wept when he found it dead in its cage, one wing outstretched towards the mirror hanging inside, as if it were trying to tell him something. He buried it with all respect in a shoe box, with his daughter saying a sincere prayer that Mr. Fleddie would be happy and that there was plenty of rennet seed in heaven. That night, one minute to midnight, he dug the shoe box back up and carried it into his workshop in the garage. A quick vivisection and a long study of Mr. Fleddie's entrails told him the secret message that the bird had died to carry back from the land of the dead. He saw himself dead, but more importantly, his whole family, his wife and his parents and his little girl and the babe unborn in his wife's stomach that he hadn't even known about until he read his future.

Inspiration: "Secret Message," by Rasputina
Story Potential: Low.
Notes: Though this bit's interesting, the story isn't.