Reincarnal

you to bed.
MATHIS:
That’s a great offer...just not sure I’m up to it.
NORA:
We’ll get you up to it.
NARRATOR:
But we don’t need to intrude upon this happy reunion, do we? We are not madmen with butcher knives, lurking outside a window – no. Surely our dreadtime tale is done...almost.
SOUND:
Bed springs.
NORA:
Rich!
MATHIS:
(waking) Huh? What?
NORA:
I had a dream.
MATHIS:
(slurred) Uh, really? That right?
NORA:
But I wasn’t a specific person this time. I was just a presence in a white room. Doctors, standing around a table...a mother...feet in the stirrups...it’s a delivery room. Baby born...
MATHIS:
That’s a nice dream...
MATHIS:
Just a nightmare, honey. Go back to sleep.
NORA:
No, Rich – you don’t understand...He’s back.
NORA:
No, it isn’t! The birth wail, it...it was like a scream of rage...
MUSIC:
Sting. Then into Fangoria Theme.
ANNOUNCER:
“Reincarnal” was adapted for radio by Max Allan Collins and based on his short story. Heard in the cast were: