1,716 Words... Finally a Human

Alice is the main character of this novel, a 40 year old writer with a pathological fear of laying down roots and a habit of having nightmares. She finally decided to show up, and here is a brief excerpt of her waking from one such nightmare... Katie, my first shout out to your novel. I'm sure there will be many along the way. "She couldn’t remember the particulars of the dream she was rising from now, slowly as ever,

but her skin felt ice cold despite the humid air of her apartment, and she was uncertain whether she were laying in her bed at all, or floating on the surface of frigid water. She couldn’t move, not yet, her body hadn’t let go of the dream enough, but she began to take in the details of her bedroom: the poster of Sidney Crosby, celebrating one of the most important goals in hockey, the ‘golden goal’ as she liked to call it and probably others with equally good taste did as well. How often had Sid been the first visible sign of sanity in the insane sleep world she occupied? She had lost count, or perhaps more truthfully, she had never counted at all, being the sort of person who didn’t believe in the power of counting."