Day for Night by Frederick Reiken

Author:Frederick Reiken [REIKEN, FREDERICK]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780316132848
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2010-06-01T00:00:00+00:00

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Only a week or so had passed when I received a letter in the mail from Beverly. She’d sent a short note along with transcripts of two dreams. I had not been expecting this. Despite our promises, I had doubted I would hear from her again for a long while. So much for my logic and intuition. Neither had ever been much use with Beverly. I briefly wondered how she’d changed over the years during which we had not spoken. But then I read her note and smiled.

Dear Mirela,

I’m still dreaming about the shadows. There is no need to interpret and not because my dreams are ingenious. The shadow dream is the same dream, always. Do you have clients who for all their lives have the same dream, over and over? If it is true that you still keep my box of things, then please deposit these. Also, I’ve enclosed a photo taken, I believe, in Poland before the war. This is my father, my aunt Doris, and my uncle Pinchas. I can’t be sure but I assume my mother took the photo, since the date on the back is written in her handwriting. A very ordinary photo. Still there is something strange and dreamlike about the picture, though I don’t know what it is. Of course, you know the story about my father and Uncle Pinchas. The five hundred Jewish intellectuals killed in Kovno as well as the fable my aunt Doris likes to tell about the two men who survived. I often look for those two men in my dreams, as seems to be the case in both Exhibit A and Exhibit B. I sometimes do have dreams without the shadow, but they seem lifeless, even pale—such funny words to use—in comparison. Thank you, my Mirela, for receiving these.

Yours,

Bejla

The photo was, as she’d suggested, ordinary. A glossy black-and-white of three people. Both her father and her uncle with gallant smiles and her aunt looking at something above the camera. Much more interesting and surprising than the photo, I thought, was how she had signed the note. Not “Queen Bejla” and not “Beverly.” Just “Bejla.” I did not know if she was aware that she had done this.

The first dream she had transcribed was the following:

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