Jill's Dream

The street was straight and littered with parked cars, and sunlight glinted on a moving dark car.

Something scared me about that brown car. It seemed “after” me, headed for me but from behind me. 

I must get to my kids!

I think this is the right street to get there to my kids but my heart is beating so fast I think I might be in the wrong town. 

This street is familiar but strange. 

I am hurrying but the bumpy sidewalk is moving slow. Now it is stopping! The car. 

Creepiness crawls on me, but I look over at the car anyway.

I scream. 

Two weird women are looking straight at me through the open car window. The hospital gauze wrapped around their faces is dirty and stringy. I see haunting eyes peering at me through holes in the hospital gauze and I know! They are the acid throwers! 

Victims turned evil. 

I remember the New Order and how women are supposed to be.

I take off running away. I've got to get to my daughter before they do. I will not let her be disfigured for the Society. 

My heart is beating so fast I cannot breathe.

My pounding heart wakes me up just as the haunted lepers throw something at me.

Screaming and trembling, I wake up in time to see the moving shadows of car headlights on my bedroom wall.