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THE STORY I’M about to relate
sounds utterly fantastic I must
admit, and I’ve kept it to myself
just as long as I could. 3ut be
fore I start, let me say that I’m
considered of sound mind and
body . i . believe it or not. How
ever, let me go on. ■ f .
One night not so long ago aft
er a hard long day of classes. I
crawled into my rickity upper
bunk in Foster, looking forward;
with sweet anticipation to a>
restful night of uninterrupted 1
sleep. Ah. v(as I fooled! No soon-,
er did I fall asleep than I bdgan
to experience the most pmaiing,
things. First I seemed to be lift
ed out of bed. out of the window,'
and then straight up into the-
dark blue, stdr-studded sky. Up
and up I went, and then I seem
ed to slow down. There I |was
floating around aimlessly;' all
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around me was nothing but deep
purple sky and the ever-present
blinking stars—it was all really
very confusing to me.
Then, out of the vast infinite
space v I heard a voice ... or
maybe it|ifas several voices in
unison—most unlike anything I
had ever heard before. The voic
es seemed -I to sing out to [me,
“Peace! Peace! You will bring
peace!” Then, just as suddenly
as it had begun, I found myself
back in my bed again. Whew!
I was really scared. I rose up
and looked around the dark
room, but all seemed in order.
Wiping the beads of perspiration
from my face, I finally relaxed
and triedj tjo go to sleep. When
almost in ithe arms of Morpheus,
the odd feeling came over me
once more. I hardly know how to
explain it, i but in some way I
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felt that anything I wanted or
wished for would be mine for
the asking, jt My subconscious
mind kept reminding me of it
until I thought I would just go
plain screwy. It couldn’t be, I
thought, it Just couldn't be. Such
a thing existed only in fairy
tales or Fantastic Story maga
zine.
By this time I was fast be
coming a potential customer for
the state asylum what with all
the high pressure rattling thru
my craniuhii Well, I thought,
silly as it seems. I’ll just try
and see if my wish would be
answered. But what would I
wish for? A Cup of coffee would
taste good, and in bed too! So
I wished for a cup of coffee.
Swish! Just like that—there it
was—a cup of steaming hot cof
fee on a little silver tray right
before me. When this happened
I was very ’ much awake and
plenty scared- It had happened
—the impossible, right before
piy very own two eyes. I eased
out of bed so as not to spill the
tray. What should I do? Obvious
ly my wishlM; would really come
true.
My two roommates started to
stir. Immediately I wished the
tray and the coffee, which I had
been afraid to touch, to disap
pear — and I they did! Reveille
blew, and my roomies got up
cussing and yawning. They look
ed at me standing in the middle
of the floor like a marble statue
of AWE One of them said,
“What in the world is the mat
ter with you? You are as pale
as a ghost, *and your eyes are all
bloodshot, pave you been up all
night?” “No." I replied, “just
had a restless night.”
After breakfast, when the two
roommates went to their. 8
o’clock classes, I locked myself
in the room, - Q at down, and start-
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