Regrets

Released: 21st August 2005
Size: 11 KB
Genre: real life

Introduction
Of course, I never expected to come back here. When Marie died, I locked up the old cabin, threw away the key and left. I intended to sell it. I never wanted to set foot in the place again.

But then…

Then I had the dream.

It was a strange dream, and this is from someone who has spent his life having strange dreams. As a child, I saw people with no heads; as a teenager, I watched a tramp die under the wheels of a moving truck several minutes before the actual event; as an adult… and then, later in my life, I had a dream in which I believed Marie was at the cabin. Pure nonsense of course. The desperate hopes of a lonely old man. And yet…

And yet here I am all the same, the key (retrieved from where I had thrown it on the garden back home) poised to open the door.

"Are you in there, Marie?" I ask softly as I step into the cabin.