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but it doesn't matter because the 100 foot dive to the pond was a mistake either way. Brant and the rest may have
tried to slide, but they never made it to safety and the authorities still haven't pulled their bodies from the murky
pond waters to this day.
And still, in my dreams, I feel Kirby taking my hand and telling me it was okay; we were safe, we were home
free. And then I heard the thud-thud-thud of a single SkyCoaster car rolling toward us. I want to tell Kirby not to
look -"Don't look, man!" I scream, but the words won't come out. He does look. And as the car rolls up to the
deserted station, we see Randy Stayner lolling behind the safety bar, his head driven almost into his chest. The
fun-house clown begins to scream laughter somewhere behind us, and Kirby begins to scream with it. I try to run,
but my feet tangle in each other and I fall, sprawling. Behind me I can see Randy's corpse pushing the safety bar
back and he begins to stumble toward me, his dead, shredded fingers hooked into seeking claws. I see these
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things in my dreams, and in the moments before I wake, screaming, in my wife's arms, I know what the grown-
ups must have seen that summer in the freak tent that was for Adults Only. I see these things in my dreams, yes,
but when I visit Kirby in that place where he still lives, that place where all the windows are cross-hatched with
heavy mesh, I see them in his eyes. I take his hand and his hand is cold, but I sit with him and sometimes I think:
These things happened to me when I was young.
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