As Luck Would Have It by Goldstein Mark

Author:Goldstein, Mark [Goldstein, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mark A. Goldstein
Published: 2012-12-30T08:00:00+00:00

Fourteen

Luck and the Gorilla

There are a lot of really bad things that can happen to a 14 year-old after watching his parents die in a fiery crash. Maybe I shouldn’t complain about having to live with my quarrelsome aunt or detached uncle, there were much worse things than that. Nighttime, for instance. The dark and lonely space of the bedroom was creepy enough and I was afraid of the visions that might disturb me if I closed my eyes and let them in. But it was the nightmares that haunted me most; the dreadful dreams of every description that wound their way through my subconscious mind on so many nights. Strange and terrifying glimpses into what surely must be hell would startle me to wakefulness, sweating and shaking in fear in those first moments when I was not quite certain whether they were real or not, and then, worrying that they might return to torture me again if I gave in to my drowsiness and allowed sleep to invite them back again, like an unwelcome house guest.

I stayed awake as late as I possibly could each night, hoping to fend them off, but rarely succeeding. One time I had a particularly vivid and frightening dream, so realistic and awful that I still remember it clearly after all these years. I was in an airplane with my parents going on a vacation to someplace warm. This was interesting to me, since I had never flown anywhere up to that point, yet my recollection of the plane and the flight itself seemed quite realistic in all respects; the sounds of the engines and the sensations of flight much like they actually are. Had my memory of the dream been obscured by time, or did this particular nightmare invoke a different sort of significance or meaning?

In my dream, the flight attendant had served spaghetti, my favorite food, just like I would have ordered at Angelo’s. There were little red checkered cloths on the tray tables and a bottle red wine there too. It was just like the restaurant only up in the sky. I heard music and then a guitar player came down the center aisle and the passengers started singing along with him, then dancing and laughing until the pilot came on the intercom and said there was an emergency, everyone please fasten your seatbelts.

There appeared from nowhere a large opening on our side of the cabin and when I looked outside, I realized my parents had fallen from the airplane and were in the water below. I panicked when I saw they were gone, but they were waving to me and calling out, come back Clifford, we’re here, come back. I yelled to them but they could not hear me, we were flying further and further away. Clifford, wait, don’t leave us here. Mom, Dad, please don’t go away, I’ll come back when the plane lands, wait for me! There was a spinning sensation and then we were surrounded by flames, just before the plane crashed into the water.

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