THE RECURRING DREAM
The story starts with the description of Kimberly Clark. She is a young, beautiful woman of 25, who loves to dance. She works at a good position in a large company. However her life is not as happy as it should be. She is haunted every night by a dream that she thinks does not have any connection to her.
Her strange dream begins in a country road ( a village road) , where she finds herself standing on a road. There is a lane with white fence and hedge on each side. At the end of the road, on top of the hill, there is a small white cottage with green shutters. In the dream, she walks to the house, enters in and looks around. In a room she finds a man asleep in bed. The man is little, old with white hair and a white beard. When Kim tries to talk to the old man, she ends up waking up in her apartment in London.
This happens almost every night and our protagonist is very much worried. She talks about this problem of hers, to her roommate, Janet Wilson. Janet advises her (Kim) to go to her ( Janet's) parents' farm for a few days. Janet thinks that Kim's trouble will vanish away if they spend some time in peace, away from the hum-drum of the noisy city. Kim agrees.
Next Saturday, they leave for the farm in Janet's car. Janet drives while Kim sits on the back seat enjoying the sights. When they were away from the city, Kim falls asleep on the back seat. A little later when Kim wakes up, what she sees astounds her. Her eyes open wide. With great surprise, Kim tells Janet that it is the same place she dreams every night. She tells Jan to stop the car and let her go to that cottage with green shutters. Janet tries to stop Kim thinking that it might be her (Kim's) imagination. But Kim gets out. With every step closer to the cottage, her heart pounds faster. She is very frightened.
She finally is in front of the cottage. The cottage is same- as in her dream. But there is an only difference that there is a sign that says 'FOR SALE'. Kim knocks the door and an old man opens the door. To her great surprise, It is the same man from her dream. The old man on seeing Kim immediately closes the door. Kim asks him not to close the door as she has to talk with him. The old man asks Kim to go away but Kim says that she's there because she saw the FOR SALE sign board. The old man is sure that Kim wouldn't want to buy that house because the house was haunted. Kim says who would haunt that pretty house. The old man says,'It's you' and bangs the door shut.
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