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Somnia - The dreaming excerpt

They say in the beginning that man and woman were as one creature. A creature with two heads, four arms and four legs;

in attempts to steal the knowledge of the heavens they were subsequently separated and placed at the opposite ends of the earth for ever to be doomed to search for their other half...…

Sophia lay restless in her bed, her sheets and comforter twisted. She flipped over hard on her right side and stared at the red numbers on the alarm clock, 3:45 a.m. Frustrated she rolled on to her back and looked intently at the ceiling fan as it slowly spun. After a short spell of watching the fan she dozed back off. Her dreams were filled with the same man that she had dreamed about since her earliest memory, though then he was a young boy. She slept only an hour then she awoke again. Aggravated as usual, unable to put a name to the person in her dreams she arose and walked down stairs;her chocolate lab, koko, followed close behind her. She seated herself at the kitchen table; koko rested his head in her lap and looked up at her with soulful eyes.

“oh, koko it’s too early boy.”, Sophia said in desperation as koko whined and paced his feet.

“okay! Fine! Go get your leash.”, Sophia said loudly.

Koko dashed off down to the basement, while Sophia dragged herself back up stairs putting on clothes and sneakers. Koko waited at the bottom with his leash in his mouth. After their brisk walk, Sophia returned to her house and showered then headed out for work. Her day proceeded as usual, she sat sluggishly in her cubical her eyes heavy from being sleep deprived. The hours drug unhurriedly passed, unable to shake the thought from her head about the man in her dreams unlike before. Every detail about

him was fresh as if she had rose from the dream on moments before. Lost in thought, amber startled Sophia when she spoke.

“hey, amber. What’s up?” Sophia said unnerved.

“are you okay?”, Amber questioned with her eyebrow raised.

“yeah, i’m fine. Just not been sleeping well”, Sophia responded with a chuckle.

“well, the reason i have stopped by is mrs. Pedimont called in complaining that you have had loan documentation that hasn’t been processed.”, Amber said as she propped

herself up against the cubical wall.

“mrs. Pedimont?”, Sophia questioned as she searched her mental index.

“yes, mrs. Pedimont....File Number 02­009834578.....She Was trying to take out a second mortgage and she is saying you have had the paper work for nearly a month and a half.”, Amber continued.

“Amber, I don’t have any files­ and i don’t remember talking with any pedimont.”, Sophia retorted in her defense.

“well can you check your file cabinet....and let me know?”, Amber questioned with a heavy sigh as she walked away from the cubical.

Enraged Sophia began to go through her filing cabinet, much to her horror she found the pedimont file. Frustrated and anxious she called her supervisor ; then left for the day. Her mind was cloudy, unable to focus she went home and stretched out on her sofa. Koko wagged over in all his lab­ like goofiness, his body almost smiling. Sophia’s face was buried in the throw pillow when koko licked her cheek.

“what is his name koko?”, Sophia asked through the pillow; koko whined as if to say, ‘i don’t know’.

“i have got to figure out who this person is....”, Sophia said aloud. “i have to figure out why they are in my dreams every night....”, She continued.

After a few moments of lying on the sofa she stood up and walked down to the basement. From a shelf she pulled down a box marked school annuals, she pulled them out one by one going through photographs in an attempt to put a name

with the face in her dreams. After she exhausted five hours to the project she came up empty handed. Even more perturbed she slammed the box back atop the shelf and went back up stairs. She paced in front of the telephone, her mind twisted

with contemplation on whether or not she should discuss the dreams. After she squabbled with herself for a few moments she picked up the phone and dialed a close friend’s number.

The phone rang a few times before it was answered, “hello?”, Katy said almost out of breath.

“hey, katy....Do You have a minute?”, Sophia asked.

“sure. What’s on your mind?”, Katy responded.

“more like who.....”, Sophia replied as she began to explain her dreams to katy. After a thirty minute conversation katy was unable to help figure out the mystery man.

“okay describe him again....”, Katy said.