I loved my days off. I took the bus and went down to the coast. There was a place there the tourists never went. If you climbed the steep slope down, you had your own private rocky beach.

I’d spend hours diving and exploring the deep bottom. It was quiet under the water and the fish never bothered me. I learned to hold my breath a really long time and explored the underwater caves and crevices as far as I could.

If I ever got enough money together, I considered taking scuba classes and renting the equipment. That kind of cash was long way off for me.

That was life for me and I was finally happy. My little world wasn’t very exciting, but it was mine.

I shopped after work at the mini mart a block away. I came back to the motel late one night and noticed a faint glowing coming from around back. I dropped my groceries in my room and went to investigate.

There was a small wooded lot behind the building. Drunks sometimes started fires back there. The manager didn’t care unless they got out of hand and then we called the police and fire trucks.

me to go investigate. I should have gone and gotten Mr.

from somewhere in the center. I wove between the trees watching the light. It

a steady pulse. That’s the Last thing

to sleep. My surroundings were all very clean, sterile almost and completely foreign to

be coming from the walls themselves. I put my feet on the floor and

were stuck, held in place by strong air currents. The air pulled my arms out from my

walls just disappeared, that’s the best way I could

‘s L I

weren’t. I was on the white lighted platform Looking out into

the dark and now I could see faces. My little platform was drifting slowly through a sea of faces. They were humanoid, most of them. Others were what

for consciousness. My mind just wanted to shut off and be back at the motel fixing Ramen noodles. This could not possibly be

but I wasn’t skinny either. My tummy and hips had a soft

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