Casual conversation

Date: 7/2/2019

A man and a woman are at the top of a staircase. The stairs are like what you might find at an apartment building, narrow steps and a railing, zigzagging round. The man is convinced that his true companion is at the bottom. The woman is coming with him. They walk down the stairs. There are no doors, but each landing has a window. The windows are snow covered. You can’t see through, but light comes in. The pair descend for six months. They walk without food or sleep. Finally, they find the bottom. There is a door. The man is ready to find his true companion. He tells the woman to look at the ice crystals growing on the ceiling, which give a message about her future. He opens the door and looks back, and the woman is gone. Flash forward, and the man is telling his story to the news. The nation is entranced. The woman is left out. Epilogue: I wake up and write this in my dream app. This is also a dream. I wake up for real, and can’t remember what I’m supposed to write. I panic, but then the dream comes back. Here I am.