I am running. Running
faster and faster and I don’t know where I am or where I am going.
I am breathing hard, my chest is heavy and there is a stitch, no a
tear, in my side and it feels like I am on fire. I look around me and
all I see are walls, mahogany paneled walls. One after another after
another, no doors, no windows, just walls. The floor is bare under my
feet. I am not wearing shoes and for some reason I find this quite
distressing. Normally I wouldn’t care; I hate shoes, but on this
particular day I do. It seems to make all of the difference. There is
someone running behind me. I know who he is. I don’t know how I
know who he is or even how I know he is a he, but I do. I just do. He
yells something at me, something that sounds like shop, or pop, or
cop. STOP! He is yelling STOP! I don’t stop; I keep running,
running, running. With all my might I run, scared that he will catch
up to me, scared that he will find me, scared that he will do with me
what he has done to so many others. Finally I see something. A door.
Never in my life have I ever seen such a beautiful, illustrious door.
I go in it is unlocked. There us a desk that I hide under. I am
breathing heavily still; I can feel the sweat running down my neck,
my back, my legs. He enters, the priest enters; another thing I don’t
know how I know, but I know anyway. He reaches under the desk, pulls
me out from my safe place, throws me to the floor, takes out his gun,
and shoots me. Then I wake up.