“There shall arise among you a prophet, and a dreamer of dreams,”
Desperation! I’m in Desperation, and this is a dream! I fell asleep while I was trying to pray, I’m upstairs in the old movie theater!
“There shall arise among you a prophet, and a dreamer of dreams,” someone said.
David looked across the street and saw a dead cat—a cougar—hanging from a speed-limit sign. The cougar had a human head. Audrey Wyler’s head. Her eyes rolled at him tiredly and he thought she was trying to smile. “But if he should say to you, Let us seek other gods, you shalt not hearken unto him.”
He looked away, grimacing, and here, on his own side of Bear Street, was sweet Pie standing on the porch of his friend Brian’s house (Brian’s house had never been on Bear Street before, but now the rules had apparently changed). She was holding Melissa Sweetheart clasped in her arms. “He was Mr. Big Boogeyman after all,” she said.
“You know that now, don’t you?”
“Yes. I know, Pie.”
“Walk a little faster, David. Mr. Big Boogeyman’s after you.”
