“They brought a guy in the hospital. He was…” Ernie struggled to find the right words. “You were there. You were a little fatter then. I couldn’t hear what you were saying.” he pointed at Terri while saying this. “A bright light was above the man… he looked like the man in the photos.”
“Photos?” asked Terri. Ernie brought her the album.
“There.” He gestured to the man.
“Ernie,” Terri’s eyes filled with tears. “That’s you!”
“I am the man in the picture? The man in the dream? What happened to me?” His voice was thick with terror.
Inspired by
Little Frances had more than her father’s looks, she also had his cheerful gait. One glance at her told you that. “How has he…
A sequel to Tell Me Your Dream
About the author
Laine P. Grey
At a charming little cattle farm, near a pretty deadly lake
I got my copy of Breaking Dawn at 12:04 AM, Saturday, August 2, 2008! Oh yeah, number 15.
I am now officially in the League of Awesomeness as The Sarcastic Scribe
There are those who say that life is like a book, with chapters for each event in your life and a limited number of pages on which you can spend your time. But I prefer to think that a book is like life, particularly a good one, which is well worth staying up all night to finish. —Lemony Snicket
Start of Billy Joel song Series
http://ficlets.com/stories/36126
Start of Leningrad
http://ficlets.com/stories/37014
This summer I am reading, writing, counting days, and allowing the cat to steal my shrimp. Feel free to join in.
Most of my Ficlets are inspired by books, Billy Joel, or Jack Johnson songs.
So, if you’ve read Adverbs by Daniel Handler, then you know that each chapter is titled with a different adverb, and contains the same character names although, each story is essentially separate. The characters often repeat a phrase in another story or they mention a character that was in the previous story. That is what I’m going to do with the “Goode Callen” story, but mine will be titled with verbs. It starts with my entry in a challenge: http://ficlets.com/stories/39031
If you haven’t already, you simply must see I’m Reed Fish, In America, and Bon Voyage.
“I was born in ‘49, a Cold War kid in McCarthy times. Stop ‘em at the 38th parallel, blow those yellow reds to hell. Cold War kids were hard to kill under their desks in an air raid drill. Haven’t they heard we’ve won the war, what do they keep on fighting for?”—“Leningrad”, Billy Joel (Part of the Billy Joel Posse with T. F. Torrey, pens&feathers, and BARomero.)
Published on June 12, 2007.
This story (like all ficlets) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 License. What does this mean?
Comments
Average Reader Rating:
In The Photo And The Dream
Posted 12 months ago
Want to comment on this ficlet? You need to sign in!