“This is what people were looking at all day? How embarrassing! I looked like Quasimodo! My guests were exceptional actors.”

“He grinned, a very dark and evil grin… the kind of grin that the Grinch had before he stole Christmas.”

“Enough with the sadness! This dream is not for cry-babies…” he said, his face beaming with a wide smile.”

“A quick thought shot through my mind. Could I really drown in a dream? I remembered the movie the Matrix. If you died in the matrix, you died in real life. I wasn’t about to take a chance…”

“Hell had frozen over and I was lost in its endless labyrinth.”