The Bureau of Dreams to be Continued by Edward Drobinski - HTML preview

The Bureau of Dreams to be Continued

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“Better?”

Jimmy took the question as applying to the monsters themselves, not understanding that she was alluding to the movies.

He hesitated before weakly replying; “Well, no, not all of them. There are bad ones, too.”

By his response, she wasn’t certain, but thought she understood his direction, decided to follow it and said; “So, you like the good monsters?”

“Yes.”

“What makes them good?”

“That’s easy. Some are misunderstood and have a hard time, but they do something for somebody else, like ‘King Kong’.”

“Did you ever see ‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame’?”

“No.”

“Try it. I think you’ll like it.”

After the break for lunch, Miss Gracing had the class put the small chairs in some semblance of order, before sitting. It was amazing how she remembered everyone’s name. Zeke sure couldn’t. The kids spent the rest of the afternoon trying to learn songs