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NIKKO'S DREAM
A SHORT
STORY BY
JOE HUTSKO


Copy right й1999
by Joe Hutsko


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Date : 02022001
Version : 0.90

In Taylors dream, he always wakes
before finding out what lies at the
heart of the matter..

It's the same every time. The
playground with its swings and ropes
and jungle gym, the rungs warm and
moist to the touch. Impossibly nestled
in a muggy forest. The spacecraft
never far from sight, its odd flesh-
tone surface perspiring in the sunny
clearing. The girl with the curious
brown hair, liquid brown eyes. Her
very pale palm pressing to his chest as
she leans in as though to kiss him. And
always, the screaming - first the
missiles as they arc across the sky,
then his own - signaling the end of the
dream and startling him awake with
his heart going crazy in his chest, his
hand instinctively flattening against it
as hers did, as if to keep it from
bursting through, always with a sense
that there, just beneath the surface.
lies the answer to the mystery, some
resolution to the recurring dream,
which has never played itself out
beyond the scream. He has never
kissed her.

The next morning it is always the
same too, the dream forgotten upon
waking. The hot shower doing nothing
to bring back the rainforest imagery.
No recollection as he slips into his
clothes, fumbles with his belt buckle,