||| FROM THOM CARNEVALE |||


LAST NIGHT I HAD A NIGHTMARE.

YOU KNOW – WHEN YOU ARE STARTLED INTO AN UNREASONABLE AWAKE.

FOR BLIND SECONDS, I SHUFFLED BETWEEN PANIC, DESPERATION AND THE FULL THROTTLE AWAKE MODE.

NO, IT WAS NOT AN ATHLETIC CLUB MOMENT – WHEN ADRENALINE FLOWS FREELY, IGNITING PASSION FOR ANOTHER DAY OF LIFE’S GIVINGS AND TAKINGS.

THE NIGHTMARE —

LOOKING OUT MY WINDOW I NOTICED A FLASHING LIGHT ATOP MT. CONSTITUTION. NO, IT WAS NOT THE TOWERS. IT WAS A FLASHING NEON SIGN. INITIALLY,  IT WAS DIFFICULT TO MAKE OUT, I GRABBED BINOCULARS  MADE OUT THE WORDS, ‘RICK’S DINER.’

COULD IT BE? COULD IT BE?

AT FIRST, I STEPPED BACK, WONDERING WHETHER I HAD DRIFTED INTO AN AUGMENTED REALITY STATE. THEN, REALIZING IT WAS INDEED REAL, I CATAPULTED OUT OF BED GRASPING MY BALLOT.

SUBSUMED  BY A WHITE LIGHT AND HOPE,  I PICKED UP MY PEN – MARKING CINDY WOLF AND RYAN PALMATEER FOR COUNTY COUNCIL.


 

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