Chapter Fourteen
As usual he knew the dream immediately, even though it had undergone a truly crucial transformation.
Previously the setting and circumstances had varied. Yet though the story changed the theme remained the same. Karl had feared he’d be doomed to repeat the mistakes that had led to Krista’s death every time he closed his eyes until he died. Yet perhaps even that compulsion was passing. From variations on a morality play, the stage of his awareness now seemed to be presenting serial installments of its sequel. As if merely interrupted (yet still influenced) by the impactful day just past, the preceding night’s shadow-play of his subconscious struggle for recovery was rejoined with hardly a gap in the action. Having been sentenced for his crimes against femininity, it was
