Nightmare

[Mark Kohut]

So, some music-loving before-my-time Plister comes back home,
like the return of the repressed, and speaks of Lovecraft ....and Pynchon.

So, another writer I'd mostly missed--read just a bit of the famous long
novel a pentade
ago--this crafty love guy NOT---and I say to myself, read more, be a
completist and
this L of A volume of his stories pops up from a lower shelf at a library
like one of Maxine's
surprises and I bring it home.

And I fall asleep reading JUST the first story last evening, full of dread
over Ukraine, and

my life partner wakes me up gently with "That was a very bad one, wasn't
it?" as I had
a paralysis nightmare involving her prematurely unmoving body......

Thanks, Allen. 😇  I'll never forget you nor Lovecraft now.