Saturday, November 22, 2008
Rude Awakening
Alex wakes up to the sound of two men talking. "What happened?" Alex says to himself. "Where am I?" Alex remembers the deer and going down into the river but nothing else. Just then Alex notices that the two men are not speaking English. "Is that Arabic?" he says to himself. Alex opens his eyes and sees the men. The two are tall and lean. Both are wearing turbans that wrap around their face. They turn to him and speak angrily in Arabic. "What?" "I don't understand." The men laugh at him and then one of the two slaps Alex hard across the cheek. "What the...?" Alex tries to raise his arm to fight back but notices he is tied up with plastic bag ties. "What is going on, who are you?" "What do you want?" Alex is not used to being smacked around, he is over six foot tall and has a large frame. He played sports all of his life and could always hold his own. One of the two men walks over to a camera and turns it on. The other man goes over to a table and picks up a very large serrated survival knife. "Oh my...no!" says Alex. The two men begin to pray in Arabic and Alex begins to pray also. He has heard of this type of thing and knows what comes next. The man with the knife walks up to Alex and grabs his hair. Alex looks up to the ceiling with tears in his eyes and prayer on his lips. He sees a solid white moth on the ceiling by the light. Alex closes his eyes. The next thing that happens is the weird part. Alex hears snoring. He opens his eyes and he is in his own bed lying beside his wife. "What an awful dream." Alex sits up in bed. He is in his pajamas but notices something in his shirt. It's the large envelope.
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