Sunday, May. 15, 2005 - 14:30

Hello gentle Reader.

I was in an old, dilapidated hotel along with a number of other people, including Dad and my cousin, Dana.

Some kind of enormous geological disaster took place – an earthquake of incredible power. The building shook and wobbled … walls were collapsing, ceilings buckled and fell… there were dozens and dozens of people in the hotel with us, and all of us were scrambling, trying to make our way out.

But then the building itself began to sink into the ground, being crushed within the chasm that had opened beneath it as it sank. It was as if some giant had picked the hotel up and dropped it into a trash compactor.

My Dad isn’t the most able bodied man around; he has arthritis and some issues with his legs (due in part to childhood polio), but he seemed to put all of this aside as he risked his own life to save a couple of young boys (aged about 11 or so). He grabbed them and pushed them ahead of himself, forcing them to dive out of a window to the relative safety outside.

I yelled at him to leave the two boys be, pointing out that they were younger and quite fast on their feet and nimble, thus far more able to take care of themselves than he was. But Dad ignored my protests and got them out anyway.

In our efforts to ensure that other people got out of the building as it was being slowly crushed, Dad, Dana, myself and a few others found ourselves faced with being trapped, unable to get out… It was at this point that Dana produced 3 or 4 handguns. She gave one to me.

“Use it, Jay… it’ll be quicker and less painful,” she urged me in a solemn tone.

I took the gun hesitantly, surprised by its weight… daunted by the prospect of turning the gun on myself, as Dana and the other people seemed so prepared to do.

“No,” I said. “There has to be another way out,” I said. And then I noticed a small window. Even though the room we were in was collapsing and compressing around us, I figured that there was still time for each of us to squeeze through the window and escape outside before the hotel caved in and crushed us all as it sank into the chasm. I quickly shepherded the remaining people towards the window…. At which point, I woke up….

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