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    Niall's Dream
    Niall's Dream
    Niall's Dream
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    Niall's Dream

    By Joe Adams and Joseph Kessler Adams

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    A man who came to America to follow a dream is driven to leave his new home and follow directions from - what he hopes are - divinely inspired dreams.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJoe Adams
    Release dateMay 16, 2014
    ISBN9781498955133
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      Niall's Dream - Joe Adams

      Oak and Lotus Publications

      Raleigh, North Carolina

      Copyright 2014 by the Author

      All Rights Reserved

      Introductions

      Dreams dominate my creativity and my writing, but I don’t think I’ve had a dream dominate one of my characters. The Lost Boys of South Sudan have been the subject of a story that crops up in the media from time to time.

      Theirs is a wonderful story of struggle, horror and triumph of spirit. But when I see them interviewed, there is always evidence of a painful loneliness from having been pulled halfway around the world to escape the horrific stories that created the moving river of refugees in sub-Saharan Africa.

      I know none of them personally. I don’t know why they erupted into my dreams through Niall, but one night the whole story appeared in my dream. I woke and, before eating or taking my necessary medications, I had to type the first draft of the whole story. I took a break for health and nutrition, then was back on the keyboard.

      With one break in nine hours of typing, the entire story appeared and was given a second draft.

      In my entire collection I am happiest with this story. I am more proud of two plays and my second novel - Climbing the Spiral Mountain - but this is my favorite among my short fiction.

      This is not intended to be a story about a specific belief, but of faith and guidance. People of many faiths have a sense of prayer, meditation and guidance and I saw nothing about Niall that would make him Christian or Muslim or tribal. He is a man whose faith is expressed in his actions.

      When he works, he works.

      When he is grateful, he is grateful.

      When he prays, he prays.

      When he believes he has received guidance for his prayers, he acts.

      His story, and his faith, is in his actions. They are not in his thoughts or what he says, but what he does.

      Most of all, I find his faith is in his willingness to be lost, not just do the comfortable, familiar things in life.

      And I could not take Niall to an unhappy end. First, I find that unhappy ends are usually through the actions of others, or from a belief in how it is supposed to end.

      I like Niall and hope that I can learn from his example of being willing to have unexpected beginnings.

      While preparing a collection of short stories, it was clear that Niall did not fit with the other stores and needed a small book of his own to be heard.

      JKA

      April, 2014

      Raleigh, NC

      Niall’s Dream

      Niall had been in the great city for almost twelve years and had been content to have those things the people from his village did not have. The people were all gone now; dead, or spread into the corners of the world to escape the war. They were piled in the corners of the earth like the dust in tiny slopes of brown found in the corners of a poorly kept house.

      He woke with God whispering in his ears. He argued but God could not be swayed, and Niall did what he was told. He left his job moving vegetables from trucks into a warehouse down by the docks and took his last check, and the sad little balance he had been able to save in the last few years, and went to a seaman's union to see how to work his way to Africa in trade for his passage. And, of course, there was one opening for a kitchen helper on a ship many people would never even have stepped aboard, and the ship was leaving tomorrow afternoon. Of course.

      The first day, after he had collected his money and signed on to help in the galley of that steamer, he wept as he tried to reduce his meager possessions into things that were necessary to his journey. Three shirts, two pairs of sandals and one sturdy pair of work shoes, two pairs of pants, one pair of shorts, his tattered Bible, and the precious picture taken of him with his brother years before the brother was killed by the government men.

      He placed the picture in his Bible to keep flat and safe. It had already received one small burn from a careless cigarette, a stain from what he hopes was coffee, and one corner folded, but not yet separated from the main picture. Between the pages of Proverbs, it would be kept safe from further damage.

      He looked at his small booklet with telephone numbers

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