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Mel Finishes the Week
His week at the coin-operated laundromat finally over, Mel wished for nothing more, after a meal of mac & cheese, than a night of uninterrupted sleep.
So, now in REM sleep, he was able to dream, to put his Uncle's laundromat behind him.
To recover.
But what the...
It was his Uncle Leo, bursting into Mel's dream of sleeping on laundry. There’s something pleasant about lying on towels and underwear at your work.
“I don't pay you to sleep. Take this mop, Mel.”
All that night he spent mopping.
Mopping and mopping linoleum until the morning, when he awoke exhausted.
From Guest Contributor David Sydney
Whispers
Caspar would hear the whispers as soon as he closed his eyes. At first they seemed related to his dreams, but gradually they became detached, having nothing to do with his REM cycles.
The whispers were not kind. They commanded him to murder his family. Caspar wanted to ignore them, but as their stridency increased, he eventually relented.
When the police found him covered in blood and surrounded by corpses, Caspar claimed that it was God who was whispering to him. The jury agreed, and he was eventually set free.
You see, God was whispering to the jurors as well.
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