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It must be in your dreams, Ganwar, he says.

Their ghosts are haunting you.

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Isaac Ylitalo

Lapis L.A.
Ed. Eliza Raben

SLEEP STORY I

I’m in the village, everything is burning. I see Mama in the tall grass.
I try to yell to her that everyone is dead… but I can’t speak, all I can do is cough.

She is disappearing into the smoke.
The smoke clears, and everything is gone.

I see a flying boat in the sky.
It lands and a man tells me to come in.

I’m in the flying boat. There is a storm around me

and I’m all alone
nobody is there...

The flying boat lands.
When I exit the flying boat, there is nothing but sun and dead trees and cold

there is a man whose mouth moves but all I can hear is nonsense.

Then he says that his name is Dave.
He brings me to an odd box. He opens it and tells me to go inside.

It starts moving.
Then it stops, like a gazelle realizing it is safe from the lion.

When I exit the box he brings me to a building. Much bigger than my village huts.

When I go inside I see Father and Lual, but no Mama.
There is also my cousin and aunt, and her husband and kids.

But still no Mama.
SLEEP STORY II

Once there was a boy who could not walk.
He tried and tried and tried.

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