WHAT IS A PROPHET?

Part 2 - A PARALLEL 3rd DIMENSION

The light began to fade and I found myself outside looking at a large planet over the northern horizon.

I looked at my watch and it was 4am. As the planet set down over the northern horizon I saw the sun rise in the east. It was time to do my morning paper route. As the morning progressed I finished my paper route, had some Cheerios for breakfast, drank a Coca Cola, then headed off school. I was 11 years old and in 7th grade again, but something was different somehow.

I rode my 3 speed stingray to school and got there 5 minutes before the bell rang. I could not believe I still remember my locker number or the combination. I saw one of my best friends and we both went to homeroom together. I tried to tell him about my really strange dream and that I saw a planet in the north. He didn't say anything really except that he was tired cause it was hard to sleep at night because it was so bright outside. I thought he was talking about the street lights.

I made it through English & Math class and 3rd hour was my most favorite class, "Science Class". When I walked into the class I noticed right away that someone had painted half the globe of the earth white. Someone must not of liked having to learn about the other side of the planet. I was really glad that I had my homework done, but my friend Bob, Pat Seacart & Donald Westfall didn't have there's done as usual, so they had to hold books out from their sides during the first part of the class. Pat started talking to Donald while Mr. Wingrin was giving a lecture and Mr Wingren shot a dart, from a dart gun at Pat and Pat dropped his books in the fish pond. I thought it was kind of funny. Mr. Wingren was kind of kool like that and his student teacher was well, she was really hot!

Fourth hour was gym class. We had to run 10 laps around the track outside. After I changed into my gym close I headed outside. It was a pure blue sky and really hot out. Kind of strange to be winter with no snow in Wisconsin! The sun was way to the north, too far north I thought. After gym class we all took a shower. I had hot lunch after gym class with my girl friend Kim Gunnering. During lunch I told her about my crazy dream. She told me that she didn't date old men. She said I should see the school counselor and get my head examined after I told her about someone painting the globe of the Earth white. She acted like there was no such thing as a planet called Earth, no European continent or China. She said it was nothing but ice and snow on the other side of Terra. She didn't find it odd at all that the moon was going down in the north either.

 Sixth Hour we had Geography. That's when I realized I must be having some kind of nightmare again. That globe was painted white too! and the globe had two access points. Like it spun in two directions at the same time! I asked Mr. Brown about the European Continent & China. He had no idea what I was even talking about. He said the same thing my girlfriend said about the other side of the Terra being nothing but ice and snow. I kind of mentioned that I was feeling sick so I got sent to the nurses office. I just told her that lunch didn't agree with me. She wrote me an excuse to get out of the rest of my classes and I headed home. The sun was still too far to the north I thought. I went home and my mom was there, she was kind of surprised to see me. I asked her what planet this was and she just laughed. I told her about the globes being painted white and about my dreams. She told me that I should go lay down. It was about 4pm then and the sun was just setting in the west. I went up to my room and looked at the map of earth that was on my wall. Half the map was gone! I just laid down on my bed looking at my solar system map and every planet had two access points. They all spun in two directions at the same time and map of the moon showed a rotation marker. I was going to go to the public library then but mom would not let me because I came home sick. I went back up to my room and laid down but I was afraid to go to sleep. No telling where I would end up next. I turned on my radio. It played some familiar 60's music, but it was too hard to here over the fan. What I wouldn't give for air conditioning. I wanted to get on the computer but there wasn't such a thing yet. Only on Star Trek. I spent some time writing in my journal. Then I went down to the kitchen at 5pm like clockwork and had some dinner. Good old Campbells soup with crackers and milk. I watch TV afterwards. We got 3 VHF channels and 1 UHF channel. I didn't usually watch the news but I was kind of curious what was going on in the world. My sister had a fit about it. She wanted to watch "Leave It To Beaver", and "Lacie". Then my Dad pulled up in the driveway and got out of the car, came in the house and told me to go cut the grass. So I did. The sun was hire in the sky now.

After I cut the grass I went over to my friend Jeff's house and we went over to the mall where it was air conditioned and had a couple of coca colas. Jeff's has his room in the basement and he had an HO race car track set up, so we went over there for a while and his mom gave us some ice cream. I told Jeff about everything and he just laughed at me. He knew I was a sci-fi nut and he must have thought I was telling him a story. We listened to some albums, then I went home. I had to do my paper route at 4am. It was 8pm and the sun was up higher but more in the southwest. At 10 pm I was still awake and it was still light out. The sun was high in the sky but to the south a ways. The next thing I knew........