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DREAM WORLD

Michael McCollum

Does modern life ever remind you of a bad 1950s science

fiction story? You may be closer to the truth than you think!

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Dream World McCollum

 1993, 1996 by Michael McCollum Page 1Compliments of SCI FI - ARIZONA: www.scifi-az.com

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Dream World

Michael McCollum

Paula Kaplan was tired and irritable, a natural

consequence of having been on the road for the past ten days.

It wasn’t traveling that she disliked, but rather the endless

string of snotty department store managers and purchasing

agents with whom she spent her days. Her nights were no

better. During her five years as district sales representative for

Dream World Cosmetics, she had developed a routine for

passing the hours between dinner and bedtime. Often in a

strange town she would search out the local cineplex and take

in a movie or two. When nothing on the marquee appealed to

her, she stayed in her motel room and watched cable TV. Once

or twice each trip, especially when she didn’t have to travel the

next day, she would find a local tavern and get quietly drunk.

Occasionally she would encourage one of the local Lotharios to

buy her a drink and then take him back to her motel. Even

these rare adventures had a dreary sameness to them. Almost

without exception, her lovers sported an untanned strip of skin

on the third finger of their left hand.

This particular night she didn’t feel like the movies and

the television didn’t work in the seedy motel her bosses had

booked her into. There was a bar next door, but it was a

country-western place. If there was anything that irritated Paula

more than purchasing managers, it was shit-kicker music.

Bored, she hopped into her Hertz rental and sought out the little

town’s main drag. There she found a quiet bar in a residential

neighborhood.

The bar was a small white structure with a blank front

wall adorned by a red neon sign that spelled out Bob’s. The lot

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