The Angel
A dream in Cuba, before my twentieth birthday A great Cuban-American friend, her Cuban husband, and I were in some huge, damp, labyrinth-like sewers. We didn't know how we had ended up there and were desperately trying to find our way back to our city, Havana. If we had been French, we would have been in the sewers of Paris. The black, pestilent water that ran below our knees was full of greased and dead fetuses. Terrified, we tried to escape. Everything was black, musty, and damp. There was no light, except a strange stale brightness that had no visible origin. The path narrowed to the point where we could no longer continue with our heads above water. I jumped in to swim to the other side and access a wider space inside the sewer. Swimming underwater was indescribable. As I emerged on the other side, I had a panic attack. I ran and ran, desperate not to find my friends. The sewer ended and turned into a clean but dead-end corridor. Suddenly, it looked like the base...