In my Dreams it is 1944 Again

Award winning short story.

Nightmares and Dreams Competition

Night after night, Helen dreams that she is in another time, another place.

In 2013, she is an English girl with no one special in her life. In 1944 France, she is called Annette and is deeply in love with Jean-Claude. As the weeks go by, she learns more and more about Annette and the town she is living in.

Helen discovers she has a task to do in France but she has no idea what it is. Eventually she travels to the little French town of St Clement, where she meets Vivienne, who recognises her immediately. But how can she? They were born decades apart in different countries. Yet Vivienne claims Helen is her friend Annette.

Vivienne fills in some of the details of the last time she ever saw Annette. Helen's dreams become even more gripping as she visualises the end of the story and the truth about Jean-Claude. Can she right the injustice done to his memory? And why was she picked to do so?

˃˃˃ A 4,800 word short story

˃˃˃ This story also appears in the anthology Bakers Dozen.