Keeplock: a Novel of Crime
“Once a week, in the beginning, then more and more often until I couldn’t close my eyes without seeing this ludicrous figure, shoulders padded out to eternity, strutting through the glass doors of a nonexistent jewelry store. At first I dismissed the dream as a joke. Telling myself: “That’s not the way it happened, the kid didn’t die.”
The dream ignored my objection, pounding home the same message, night after night. In the end, it broke me down. I suppose, if I’d been outside the Institution, I... could have avoided it. Walked the streets. Watched television. Boozed or drugged myself into dreamless oblivion. But the lights go out at ten o’clock in Cortlandt and all you have is a cassette player and a pair of earphones. They weren’t enough.
There are black holes in outer space. I first read about them in an old Reader’s Digest years before I went to Cortlandt. They were millions of miles across and contained millions of stars, yet they appeared to be empty spaces in a sky filled with light.MoreLess
The dream ignored my objection, pounding home the same message, night after night. In the end, it broke me down. I suppose, if I’d been outside the Institution, I... could have avoided it. Walked the streets. Watched television. Boozed or drugged myself into dreamless oblivion. But the lights go out at ten o’clock in Cortlandt and all you have is a cassette player and a pair of earphones. They weren’t enough.
There are black holes in outer space. I first read about them in an old Reader’s Digest years before I went to Cortlandt. They were millions of miles across and contained millions of stars, yet they appeared to be empty spaces in a sky filled with light.MoreLess
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