Michael's Texas Embrace

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            Lyle said, “I don’t know.  What do you think?  Think somebody can just up and blow up everywhere?  Like, he woke up and exploded."  He paused.  "Some ole Chinese dude once dreamed he was a butterfly—you heard that?”

            “I think so.  He woke up and wondered for the rest of his life if he wasn’t a butterfly dreaming he was a man.  Right?”

            “That’s the one.”  Lyle fell silent.

            Callista asked, “What does that have to do with Buck?”

            “Well, maybe Buck dreamed he was an explosion, and instead of spending his life wonderin’, he just blew the hell up all over the room.  Hell, I don’t know.  How do you make sense of anything?  What do you think?”

“About what?”

            “About whether you’re you, or you’re something else, dreamin’ that you’re you.  What if you wake up and you’re an explosion, or a wolf-thing?  Maybe werewolves are just people that wake up at night and realize they’re just wolves, dreamin’ they’re people all day.”

# posted by Michael : 1:18 PM