“Every night now, he went to bed yawning ostentatiously as early as he reasonably could, and every morning he shut his ears to the sound of the alarm clock.His days were increasingly focused on the moment when he could lie down in bed, switch off the light and launch himself willingly into the void of the dream.He’d stopped being afraid of the Lightning Man; now he was little more than a distraction. He was there each night, sometimes on the lake, at other times already sitting on the shore. He ...would talk to David for a few minutes, mostly asking him questions for which he had no answers, about what it was like to live in a world in which time was so constrained. David replied as best he could, but all the time he was waiting for the sounds that told him his mother was approaching.For the first few days he’d done little more than hold her, unable to stop the tears that slid down his face, but gradually he began to believe that she would be there the next night, and the next, and to talk to her.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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