Monsters by Karen Brennan

Author:Karen Brennan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Four Way Books

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There was the time I got stuck in a long line of cars entering a parking garage. Impatiently, I left my car (motor still on) and went for a walk. I walked around the park, under the big shade trees. The ground, that time of year, was covered with pine needles and my feet crunched along pleasantly, enjoying themselves. In the distance I observed kids in a playground, mothers with short blond pony tails, giant purses slung over their shoulders, trees, dogs, swings, rocks, grass…

and when I returned to my car everyone was honking and screaming. Angry red-faced men were banging their fists on the hood of my car. A woman hurled groceries at my head—bag of oranges, bottle of detergent, fat roll of paper towels. Then someone pointed a gun at me. It had a rough textured handle and was quite surprisingly heavy. I knew this because I perfectly imagined its heft in my hand at which point I pulled the trigger and woke up in my own bed. Next to me, S was snoring, sound asleep. I went to his night table and removed the 1911 Colt 45 from its blue plastic case. It had a double-diamond rosewood grip, just like the gun in my dream, and it weighed about 3 pounds. Click, it went, when I pulled the trigger. I took aim through the window, at the sky and the leafy tree in front of the sky.

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