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Just Like the Ones He Used to Know: Part VI
This is the sixth installment of Robert J. Wiersema’s holiday tale of the ghostly and the miraculous, written exclusively for [email protected] and appearing every day until Christmas Eve. Wiersema is the author of the national bestseller Before I Wake and the novella The World More Full of Weeping.
The next time Dustin woke up, his bedroom wasn’t nearly as bright. He had the feeling that hours had passed while he slept, that the day was growing late.
He got out of bed slowly, drawing the covers up in a vague semblance of neatness before he put on the clothes he had dropped on the chair the night before. He caught sight of himself in the mirror over the desk: he looked good. Not as good as he felt, though. Clearly sleeping in his old bed again was exactly what he had needed. He felt better rested, just better, than he had in longer than he could remember.