11988 Summer
I walked across the sidewalk in front of the set of stairs. There was a crowd of people gathered around the base of the stairs as the man preached to them. It felt very strange, and i knew that $A122 was dead. I felt upset and scared. I remembered seeing the dead body. I watched the man preach to the crowd. I realized that the man who was speaking to the crowd was $A123. He lectured to the crowd, and they listened very attentively to him. Then i noticed that $F14 was one of the people in the crowd. She was sitting in the front row of the crowd on the ground. We were in a department store. I looked into the small room off of the side of the store. It was raised a few steps from the rest of the store. The carpeting in the store was yellow, and there was a circular clothing rack behind $A123 as he spoke. I turned away from the crowd and walked back across the department store. There were many people moving around in the store. The manager of the store walked over and talked to me. He was very kind and tried to make everyone feel comfortable. He tried to help me, asking me if i needed anything. He smiled a lot, and kept talking to me. I was listening to him as though he was saying something important, but i could not remember what he was talking about. I then turned away from him and walked down the hall to my room. I came to my door and started writing things on it. I wanted to remember what had been said, but i could not. Then i paused for a moment. I was trying to think, but there was something wrong. There were other people there, and i wanted to ask them the question, but i did not know whether i should. I whispered to them, asking them whether the stories were true about $A122’s death. It seemed as though everything were very secretive. He did not want everyone finding out about it. They told me that he was indeed dead. I felt sad. I did not want him to be dead.
I drove down the road in the middle of the country. There was a college on the hill to my left as i drove my car down the road. The building of the college seemed very modern and had glass stripes across its front. I thought that there might be several buildings on the hill that were part of the college. I did not feel that i should be here. I was trying to get to some place, but i did not remember where i was going. I got frustrated that i could not find where i was going. I turned my car around and started to head back. I was angry and wanted to go somewhere. I looked to the right to see the college buildings on the hill. I drove my car over the edge of the hill and started down into the small valley on the other side. The valley ran between two rounded hills. The hill to the right had the college, but the other hill seemed empty. It was covered with a field of green grass. At the bottom of both hills was a swampy area. The road curved slightly to the right, passing through the swampy area. I could see the dry rampikes sticking out of the water. Swamp grass grew around them. I continued down the road. I was not sure that this was the direction that i was supposed to go either. I turned my car around again on the other side of the swamp and started to head back. I then noticed a large tree trunk in the center of the swamp, near the road. It had been broken off a several meters from the ground and had a large knot hole in it. There was a single branch on the tree which stretched to the east, in the direction i was now heading. I looked closer at the branch and noticed that it appeared to be a hand pointing to toward the college. I felt strange, and was unnerved by the sign on the tree pointing the way.
I was standing on the deck of the old sailing ship. There did not seem to be anyone else around. I did not know quite where we were, and i was using a sextant to look up at the stars. I moved the center of the sextant so that it focused on the middle star in the belt of Orion. I knew that this constellation would be in the sky at a certain time, so i knew that i could determine where we were. Then the woman walked across the deck of the ship towards me. She was not human, but some kind of spirit. There was something wrong with where we were. I wanted to find the way back, but i was not sure that i could. She walked over to me and started to talk to me. She had long blonde hair and was wearing a denim jacket and tight fitting jeans. I spoke to her for a moment. Then i pointed out the large magnets on the deck of the ship. I could see one of them sitting at the base of the mast. It looked like a huge generator with copper wire coiled around it. There were several other large pieces of equipment on the deck of the ship. The deck seemed very long as i started to walk down it. The electromagnets should not be here. I knew that it was wrong for them to be on such an old boat. I thought that this could be part of an old science fiction story. Someone from the past might have made predictions about the magnetic coils on the ship. I thought that the story might portray the coils as a new type of propulsion device. I then realized that such technology was too far ahead in the future. Only extraterrestrial spacecraft had such propulsion devices on them. I started to wonder what the devices were doing on my ship. The woman told me that they should not be here, and was worried about them. As i spoke to the woman, i noticed that she was wearing a brown leather flight jacket. On the left breast pocket of the jacket was a white triangle which was pointing down. The symbol seemed important, but i could not remember what it meant. Then the air around us started to glow. I looked over the edge of the ship and noticed that the water was illuminated. It became very foggy. I thought that the water was boiling away from the heat. The woman then told me that things were not right. She showed me her date book, telling me that it was too late. She said that it had become yesterday already and that there would not be enough time to do something. I did not believe her. I thought that she was panicking and starting to babble. She was upset that i did not believe her and started to walk away. Then i saw a man standing on the other side of the ship. He had a gun in his hand and was pointing it at me. We ran away as he shot at us, but we ended up in the water. I climbed over the wing of the downed aircraft and tried to escape. I did not think that i could swim, so i tried to go to the other side of the wing so that i could get out of the range of the gunman.
The man tried to talk to me. He seemed to be urgently trying to tell me something, but i could not understand him. I tried to walk away, but he kept following me. I knew that something was not right, and i felt somewhat sick. Then i started mumbling the same phrase over and over again. I kept saying, “Maybe Sears can get through your X-rated prostrate.” The words worried me.