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thought you two had been together and me, I know you do. In the mirror. That
that was the reason she wanted the moment, you see a face that is yours, and
divorce. I know that's not true now but not yours. You may understand the gift
glad I didn't run across you back then. I you have been given today, but you will
didn't know what I would have done to never understand the effort put forth to
you". change the course of destiny. I am a part
of you that died that day- a small part
Scott recoiled inside but tried to show no which reached across the chasm of time,
outward display. He now knew the reason and occupied a fraction of your, our
for the dream. They concluded their subconscious. The message from the
conversation and bid each other farewell future which could only unfold in a
promising to keep in touch, but that didn't nightmare. The rest of ‘your’ life is yours.
happen. Live a good life. For now I will sleep in the
vastness that is oblivion.
Scott went to the convenience store
restroom to splash water on his face. His https://www.short-story.me/mystery-stories/1089-
heart was still racing and he felt light the-dream.html
headed. His body felt like it was on fire.
He wondered what fate would have
become him if he never left town to attend Reading Time:_______minutes________seconds
college. But wondering was foolish as he
already had his answer. The site of the
dream, the site of the murder of the two Glossary
teens years ago, one and the same. It Word Definition
dawned on him that the site was not more precognition foreknowledge of an
than a mile away from where Tom's event, especially
father's commercial nursery and foreknowledge of a
landscaping business was located. The paranormal kind.
two Mexican migrant workers accused, attacker a person or animal that
convicted and sentenced to life in prison, attacks someone or
maintained their claim of innocence years something
after their incarceration. Tom worked reassurance a statement or
comment that removes
with his father since high school at the someone's doubts or
nursery and would have been twenty-four fears
at the time of the teens’ murder. Scott invoke bring or recall to the
then turned his thoughts to the conscious mind
persistence of the dream and how it had occurrence an incident or event
altered the outcome of what should have intense existing in an extreme
been. Did I foresee that possible future? degree
he thought to himself. He looked at the revelation an act of revealing to
mirror on the wall before him and for a view or making known
moment he didn't recognize himself. In incarceration the state of being
the reflection, for an instant he wore a confined in prison;
imprisonment
smile, but then he realized he wasn't persistence firm or obstinate
smiling at all. All of this, he would ponder continuance in a
for years. He would especially think of course of action in spite
that face in the reflection. My face. of difficulty or
opposition
I am the echo of things to come and the foresee be aware of beforehand;
hint of what tomorrow holds. I am the predict
shadow without substance and the
whisper without form in your thoughts. I
am fear, given life, and the eyes that burn
bright in the dark of your mind. You see

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