What I Had Before I Had You (2014) - Plot & Excerpts
It feels like there is a crust to break through, a pudding-skin membrane between dreaming and not dreaming. The images from my dream hold fast with uncommon vividness: the lunging lions, the chickens in the toilet, the Monopoly money spilling from my mother’s pockets. This is not me, I think. This is not how I dream. This is Daniel talking to me. I swing myself out of bed and grope for my shoes in the dark. I will not stop to think or I will stop altogether. I sling my purse over my shoulder and go. The carpeted stairs absorb my footsteps. I pass the living room doorway and backtrack to look in on Carrie over the back of the sofa. She is sleeping hard, breathing audibly, like a pug. Her left arm is tucked tightly under her head and her eyelids flutter. Ricky is asleep on another chair, his arms crossed over his chest. Outside, I pull the front door gingerly until I hear the click. I cross the dewy grass to where my car slumbers in Kandy’s driveway. The dashboard lights cast a pale glow over my striped pajama pants.
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