I am in a strange apartment with three rooms.

In the bedroom , my sister Melinda sleeps with a large gray cat on her chest.

In the livingroom four blonde boys sleep in bunk beds. I think they are my nephews.

The door to the third room is closed.

There is light coming from under the door.

I go back to the bedroom and find my sister who killed herself three years ago asleep in yet another bed

She wakes and tells me, ³It is time.²

I know that my Mother is in the third room with the door shut and this is the day when she too will die.

I wake in sorrow