The Ted Dreams
“We slept holding each other with great affection but without feeling the need for sex. So much for life without Doxies. It wasn’t heaven but it would do.
That night I dreamt of the forest again. Sunlight streamed into the clearing. There was birdsong. Trails of white clematis hung from high trees. Even the net of saplings underfoot looked benign.
And Ted was not to be seen. Of course not. I had set him free. I hadn’t prayed for his release from Purgatory but I’d done the next best thing. I had ...forgiven him and not forgotten him. Ted was satisfied. I suspected that it was the last Ted dream I’d ever have. I was right. My third eye, after its final excitation, had been irretrievably dimmed, and just as well. I was no longer the heroine of the metadata, no goddess, no medium, just an ordinary working wife and mother of twins.
I had made my bed with Robbie and now must lie upon it, with as much content as it provided. It was hardly Robbie’s fault that he had acted as he had. He was a six, and like many a six was Aspergery: but what he lacked in empathy he made up for in a generalised goodwill.MoreLess
That night I dreamt of the forest again. Sunlight streamed into the clearing. There was birdsong. Trails of white clematis hung from high trees. Even the net of saplings underfoot looked benign.
And Ted was not to be seen. Of course not. I had set him free. I hadn’t prayed for his release from Purgatory but I’d done the next best thing. I had ...forgiven him and not forgotten him. Ted was satisfied. I suspected that it was the last Ted dream I’d ever have. I was right. My third eye, after its final excitation, had been irretrievably dimmed, and just as well. I was no longer the heroine of the metadata, no goddess, no medium, just an ordinary working wife and mother of twins.
I had made my bed with Robbie and now must lie upon it, with as much content as it provided. It was hardly Robbie’s fault that he had acted as he had. He was a six, and like many a six was Aspergery: but what he lacked in empathy he made up for in a generalised goodwill.MoreLess
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