Fragments Chapter 9 Page 18

But he thought that it was funny how the mind works, how submission to a thing like sleep is more effective than attacking it like some task to complete. It’s eerily lucid here though, to the point that it seems totally real. Like his daydream of the gym earlier.

It looks as though he’d been welding a corner on the bonnet of a large armoured SUV. It’s larger and heavier than Frank, and doesn’t look very road legal. Just then a man’s voice calls out to him. A familiar voice and he feels that this wasn’t a memory, he could tell somehow, this was his mind creating a whole new scenario. Trying to tell him something.

An unannounced visit from one of the locals was not entirely unusual. This one guy had a habit of calling in on