"Emily Gaskin - The Green Corn Dance" - читать интересную книгу автора (Gaskin Emily)

"Do you want to hear this or not?"


"Okay." I throw up my hands. "Okay."


"We did a regression this afternoon," he says, sitting back down. "A long one this
time. And I've seen things, things I've forgotten -- it's all beginning to fall into
place." His face brightens. "We think we know why this is happening to me. It's
not so . . . arbitrary."


I take the cabbage off the burner. It does not matter if it is done. Steve won't
know the difference, and I won't eat it. I cross over to the pantry and hunt the
shelves for saltines to quiet my stomach.


"The greys are prepping us," Steve explains. "They're going for a full-blown
visitation."


I rip open the plastic wrapper with my teeth. "Where I come from, it's called an
invasion."


"Don't be so negative. They haven't done anything to hurt us yet. All I've seen
suggests they're only studying us. Maybe breeding us, but," he adds quickly,
"their reasons could be benign."
I put the crackers down on the table. "You believe this?"


"I'm not the only one, Betty. This has happened to so many people. A woman in
the group, Sarah, she's seen three of her, of their, children. I can't be making
this up. Dr. Michaels says--"


"What does Dr. Michaels know about what you saw?" I cannot help the bite in
my voice. "Why must he assume this is something from outer space? I know of
visions. Maybe this is something else. A ghost. An ancestor."


Steve's face colors. "Oh, it's that, is it? I was wondering how long that would
take."


"How long what would take?"