Goines On: Visit from the nightmare

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It was an altogether strange morning, the one after Thanksgiving. Goines would peg its start to have been the dream of his (or someone’s dream – for could it really have been his?) coming upon a sort of raw croquette and lifting it to his mouth to eat, but, in doing so, waking a living creature inside the croquette (a small but long frog, Goines thought) and causing the creature to begin to struggle vigorously in protest against being taken into someone’s mouth.
    What horrified Goines – and shortly woke him up – was that he didn’t immediately put the croquette down but proceeded to try to kill the struggling creature by squeezing it as hard as he could with the fingers of both hands. It was during the squeezing that Goines awoke, and, he was thankful, stopped squeezing the creature in time – he hoped – to avoid killing it.