Withdrawing Fables From The Memory Bank

Part Three: Old Clothes and Newspapers

“Next Stop, Bushwick, Brooklyn”

At first it comes from very far away, faint, somewhere near the horizon-edge of Basil’s dream world. Old clothes and newspapers. The proclamation approaches, slowly, increasingly louder. Old clothes and newspapers. Along with a wooden cranking sound, the voice begins to fill his room. Old clothes and newspapers. He leaves sleep…