Dreams from Apartment 609: A Collection of Fictional Short Stories ...just then, as I felt myself drifting into dormancy, a flash of light burned in my eyes, deep past my retinas, and into my brain. I tried to sit up and wake but a thousand hands held my body to the bed. The flashes grew brighter and longer. I once again tried to wake myself but I could not. I tried to scream but nothing came out. I tried to pray but I didn't know how. That is when I saw her. My eyes were closed yet I could see everything. The Lady in Black stood near me then moved seductively away. I felt myself moving toward her, being pulled and drawn to her. She kept pulling me with her eyes. I felt like I wanted to be pulled. Then she reached out of the dark and I was being thrust down a moving light tunnel, falling and tumbling and rolling downward to a bottomless pit, falling and flying out of control, until without warning I stopped abruptly finding myself in a dream and a world I have never been...
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Prologue - Prelude to a Dream 6, Dream One - Summer Session 17, Dream Two - Waiting at the Atlantic Terminal, Going Eastbound 48, Dream Three - Looking for Company 54, Dream Four - Dal Paradiso o Dall'Inferno 62, Dream Five - The Unforgiving Wish 72, Dream Six - Field of Sorrow 78, Dream Seven - Un-Defeated 82, Dream Eight - My Time in Hamburger Cove 88, Dream Nine - Unfinished House 110, Dream Ten - A Parade for Joy 120, Dream Eleven - 609 Shelby Manor 126, Dream Twelve - Family Struggle 134, Dream Thirteen - Looking for Company: The Apartment 146, Dream Fourteen - About the Kays 154, Epilogue - After a Dream 190,