Dream Riders by Taylor Kole

Author:Taylor Kole [Kole, Taylor]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-03-26T22:00:00+00:00

The dream started with Corey on a twenty-foot cliff. Marci was lower than him and dressed in a blackjack dealer’s outfit with a table in front of her.

When the glimmering scenery around Justin clarified, he stood alone on the normally hyper-active Las Vegas Strip.

Justin paced in an oval, staring up at the whirling lights and diverse architecture.

Corey sensed Justin's astonishment at having passed this block a thousand times since moving out west and never noticing the intricacy.

A young man materialized out of the night and floated toward Justin. His clarity increased with each step. The young man rode a hoverboard. He was bi-racial, thin with a small afro, and in his early twenties. He wore skinny jeans, oversized glasses, and a red T-shirt with white lettering that read, HUG ME. With a bend of his foot, he stopped twenty feet from Justin and lifted his head in a greeting.

Justin raised his hand from his side. A quarter of the way up, time slowed to a crawl around Justin. The young man smiled.

A golden spark ignited in the young man's chest—similar to what Corey pictured would turn red before a Jinni launched. Rather than become all consuming, the glow drifted out of the young man and stopped two feet from him. The golden orb casted a glow in all directions. It then headed for Justin. With him frozen and looking scared, it blended into Justin’s chest.

An awareness of everything in the boy's soul spread through Justin, and by extension, Corey and Marci. The young man had hopes of completing veterinarian school. He wanted to head a shelter in a metropolitan city where he'd educate pet owners on the benefits of neutering, lessening America's two-point-seven million annual euthanizations.

Next came the young man's fears, loves, insecurities, favorite colors, and first kiss. In mere seconds, he went from a stranger polarizing Justin to a brother bonded through every laugh and tear the young man had ever spilled.

When the things—most of which were trivial and common—that the young man considered shameful rolled over Justin, he formed a sympathy and love so deep and pure it transcended comprehension.

Corey's entire essence quivered.

Finished with experiencing most of the young man's life actions and the reasonings behind them, the golden glow exited Justin and zipped back into the young man. Justin was still frozen, but also dumbfounded by unfiltered empathy.

The young man grinned and slowly lost substance until he was gone. A beat passed before an older Hispanic woman with graying hair, an overbite, and stacked layers of flab pressing against her nightgown replaced the area where the young man had been. She glanced around as if looking for someone other than Justin. When their eyes locked, the golden orb exited her and entered Justin. The process went faster this time, surging euphoria into all present.

She swapped with a middle-aged kayaker, a war-vet amputee, a prostitute, a stay-at-home father. Soon, a mass of people flicked passed at a blindingly fast rate. Once imbued with their emotional life histories, from the inside out, Justin loved them all.

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