the glare

short story inspired by Mike McCormack's book 'Solar Bones', a novel written entirely in flowing prose.

I turned over in my sleep and it wasn’t a dream that slipped in

it was something else, something bright

a glint or a glare, a notion pressed into me neatly like a warm palm in a warm palm and 

I suppose I’d missed that sort of closeness, maybe a part of me craved it and that’s why the vision arrived like it did; so gentle that it wasn’t immediately clear t…