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Fifteen minutes later he had dozed off, and a dream hadcome to him, a dream which seemed utterly ordinary but which had a strange, nearly terrifyingpower. In his dream he saw a big boy throwing a frictiontaped baseball up and trying to hit it.He missed twice, three times, four. On the fifth swing he hit the ball . and the bat, which had also been taped, shattered at the handle. The boy held the handle for a moment black tapeflapped from it , then bent and picked up the fat of the bat. tiffany sale He looked at it for a moment, shookhis head disgustedly, and tossed it into the high grass at the side of the driveway. Then heturned, and Tad saw with a sudden shock that was half dread, half delight, that the boy washimself at ten or eleven. Yes, it was him. He was sure of it.Then the boy was gone, and there was a grayness. In it he could bear two sounds: creakingswing chains . tiffany and co
and the faint quacking of ducks. With these sounds and the graynesscame a sudden scary feeling that he could not breathe, he was suffocating. And a man waswalking out of the mist. a man who wore a black shiny raincoat and held a stop sign on astick in one band. He grinned, and his eyes were shiny silver coins. He raised one band topoint at Tad, and he saw with horror it wasn t a hand at all, it was bones, and the face insidethe shiny vinyl hood of the raincoat wasn t a face at all.