Scary Voice
A dream that was a little too realistic.
I guess I dreamed it. All I know is that I woke up suddenly because a husky male voice whispered in my ear. It sounded like what we call a cowboy -- uneducated and bitter native Oregonian, frequently drunk.
We used to have someone who sounded like that leave messages on the answering machine, making fun of the message. Never did figure out who it was -- probably had something to do with our phone number being one digit away from Mick's Alehouse.
Anyway, he said: "Eighteen to twenty-one and completely unknown -- are you my next victim?"
I woke up pretty quickly, but didn't move for a while. I figured it was a hallucination or a dream, but I didn't want to test that theory in the wee hours of morning.
If any of you out there are burglars or serial killers and that was you in my Medford bedroom at about 2:30 am, thanks for not killing me or taking my Oingo Boingo CDs or anything.