Overview
I wake up in a sweat, my heart pounding. What is happening? Every night for a week the same dream! I am standing on a lonely road and looking across at a tall man who is beckoning. I can read the street sign; it says Giants Seat lane. I can also make out the town sign; it is Kelsay. Now I think about it I couldn’t make that out before! What does it all mean? Maybe I should go there? Ha. Get real, Dan! Me, a School Teacher who had to take early retirement through bereavement after my wife and kid got killed in a car crash, go to a place I don’t even know exists. Well, I will soon find out, where is my Road atlas?
I don’t believe it! It does exist. Maybe I should go there? Then do what? Do I really think a tall man is going to beckon me? I must be going crazy. But it will be a day out and I do need a change of scenery. I have been moping about here long enough. I see it is up in Northumberland, that’s a three-hour drive! In the car I feel excited and sad at the same time. Elaine and John, my son, were killed on this very same road. I will be nearing the memorial soon; it was put there by some people who think it is right to leave flowers at places on the road where people who they never met were killed! But who am I to say; I just like to remember them and not mourn them at some place where no one goes. What’s this? There is a group of people standing at the memorial? Maybe they are broke down somewhere on the road. But there is no emergency call box here! My god! It is Elaine and John, and the tall man from my dreams. I put the brakes on as I pass by at speed. I pull onto the hard shoulder, I look around, but they are gone!
I carry on in a state of puzzlement, and disbelief. What the hell just happened! Am I still dreaming? I must stay calm like when I studied Yoga. It was the only thing that kept me sane after the accident. I am feeling pretty excited as I pull into a pub car park In Kelsay. I ask a man who is smoking outside if he knows where giants seat lane is. He said, ‘There is nothing there, just a track which goes nowhere, also It is a place where ghosts have been seen and UFOs.’ Now my interest is caught, I thanked him and started off in the direction he gave me. After several minutes of driving and thinking I came to cross-roads, I also stared in disbelief as the tall man from my dreams is beckoning me!