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    Quilt of Dreams
    Quilt of Dreams
    Quilt of Dreams
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    Quilt of Dreams

    By Michael Markey

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    Kristen Marsh dreams. By merely clutching something as she falls asleep at night her imagination conjures up a dream pertaining to this object. An amazing gift? To this ten-year-old it's more a curse, even though it may predict an event in the future or explain one from the past.
    When Kristen visits her grandparents' farm at Christmas, she snuggles at night beneath a patchwork quilt made of family remnants from years ago. Imagine the dreams produced from these scraps of cloth where she learns of a dark family secret, and how - today - she can right a wrong of the past.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublishereBookIt.com
    Release dateApr 26, 2016
    ISBN9781456600761
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      CHAPTER 2: KRISTEN’S GIFT

      You see, Kristen has dreams.  Not the usual dreams that ten-year-olds have, but dreams that bring meaning, that solve problems - dreams that explain things around her.  And sometimes the dreams come about by the things she touches while she’s asleep  It’s been going on for several years, but it wasn’t until that sleep-over party at Katie’s house, in the fall of this year, that others became aware of her gift as well. 

      It was all very simple enough.  Kristen and a few other classmates were settled in by the fireplace for the night, snuggled in their sleeping bags.  Kristen nodded off for a while, gently hugging Katie’s cat friend Wanda.  She is a beautiful animal with a coat of golden brown hair - like straw in the Rumpelstilskin fairy tale.  Kristen stirred from her sleep a half hour later, to see that her friend was crying.

      Geez, Katie…what’s wrong?

      It’s Cindy, her friend sobbed.  You remember, my other cat.  She slipped out the door this morning, and we haven’t seen her since.  And now, I just started to think about her again, and I can’t sleep.

      You know how cats like to sneak away sometimes.

      But I’m so scared that something happened.  She doesn’t know anything about being outside our house.  What if she’s in trouble, or if she’s hurt?

      She’s not, Katie.

      How do you know that?

      Kristen took a gentle hold of the sobbing girl’s hand. 

      Simple…Wanda told me.

      Huh?

      In a dream I had a little while ago.  Wanda told me Cindy is all safe and warm, sleeping down at the Thompson house.

      The people down at the corner.

      Kristen nodded.  Yep - go back to sleep, and stop crying.  Everything will be all right in the morning.  I know it.

      Because Wanda said so.

      Would she tell us wrong?

      Kristen…Wanda is a cat.  Cats can’t talk, okay?

      We’ll see in the morning.

      Sure enough, about nine o’clock the next day, as the girls settled in to a sumptuous pancake breakfast there was a knock at the kitchen door.  It was Jamie Thompson – carrying Cindy, Katie’s pet of cinnamon-colored stripes."

      Cindy!  They found you!

      Jamie handed the cat over to Katie.  Actually, she sat at our doorstep until we brought her in yesterday afternoon.  After we got her fed, she made herself at home, curled up and went to sleep in front of our fireplace.  I almost hated to disturb her to come over just now.

      Katie looked to Kristen.  Kristen just smiled as Cindy came to her side for a quick nuzzle – like they had known each other forever.

      Now Kristen didn’t want this story to become a big deal, but you know how kids are.  Katie just couldn’t keep it to herself.  She had to let everyone else know about her friend’s gift.  But the other kids didn’t handle it well at all.  Some were actually a little afraid of what Kristen could do, while a few thoughtless ones made it a big cruel joke. 

      She soon became ‘Spooky’ Kristen, then ‘Krazy’ Kristen, and when you’re ten years old, who wants to be called that?

      The jokes got to be annoying.

      Hey – Krazy Kristen – I had a math test yesterday.  Last night, did you dream I got an ‘A’?

      Or,

      Spooky, I left my lunch someplace.  Will you dream about it tonight, and see where I left it, ha, ha?

      It bothered Kristen at first, but she soon tried to ignore it.  It was hard to make sense of it all when you realize you’re a little different.  So, after a while she began to change in several ways:  the things she did with friends at school - keeping to herself most of the time - and the way she dressed.  She became very quiet around others, having little to say.  And Kristen never was very much interested in what the other girls wore.  But now she became the ‘princess of mismatch’, as her parents called her.  In spite of what her mother chose, she begged for the bright, bold opposite colors with designs that even made the other kids blink and roll their eyes at times.

      One Saturday afternoon last summer Kristen’s mother took her to a softball game at the local park.  Before they left she slipped on a pair of glasses (those fake ones with clear lenses) and this wig of long shiny black hair, some thing of her mother’s from years ago.  At the game she told some of the other kids she was Kristen’s cousin, so they wouldn’t realize who she actually was.  All this she did so they would leave Krazy Kristen Marsh alone and not make with the stupid

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