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DREAMtime-12:
I Never Got My Cookie
> Okay.
. So last night, while I am fitfully asleep- it is election day… The local registrar of voters is running a promotion to encourage a get-out-the-vote effort: Any registered voter who shows up to a local park on election day and “claims” a spot at any of the hundreds of temporary election poles, (like tetherball poles, spaced in a grid about 10 feet apart), will get a free cookie when they cast their ballot. Not much of an incentive, but it sounds like fun, so a few of my gang and I go there.
. It’s crowded! Only a few poles are left, in the very back of the park, and we make it just in time to claim ours. It’s a carnival atmosphere. People are happy and cheerfully tossing frisbees and inflated balloons from pole to pole, like before a concert. Suddenly there is a defining roar coming from behind us: like a thousand Niagra Falls cascading at once! We turn to look and see a horrible sight: four jumbo jets- almost wing to wing, flying parallel and very low to the ground. It’s another 9-11! Terrorists have commandeered commercial airliners and are crashing them into the city in a kamikaze attack! With an horrific shudder they plow into the earth and spill great quantities of jet fuel.
. We run, en mass, but it’s clear thousands have already died. Soon, a tidal wave of the toxic fuel begins to lap at our fleeing feet! We reach a bicycle shop, and I hop on one of the bikes on display and pedal furiously for high ground. It is clear that one tiny spark will ignite a conflagration to rival the pit of Hell. We are all expecting to be consumed by flames at any instant. I peddle up a hill with every ounce of strength I possess. On reaching the summit, I am momentarily airborne- the churning waves of jet fuel lapping at my back tire, as I aim the handlebars for my destination: a church atop the highest hill, a sanctuary where hundreds are fleeing toward in a panicked snake of desperate humanity.
> I awake- just as my tires touch down and realize… I never got my cookie!
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