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My dear journal, I no longer need that dream.  For when I woke up today, I felt...different.  I looked down at myself and saw...orange fur covering my arm.  Then I looked at my entire body.  It covered both arms and my legs, and white fur covered my chest and stomach.

\tI excitedly got up and rushed to the mirror.  The face of a fox stared back at me through the glass.  His face was covered in orange fur, except for a muzzle that ran cheek to cheek, which was white.  His eyes were a piercing dark blue, staring back at me.  His pointy ears stood straight up on his head.  I realized that the one staring back at me WAS me.  I nearly shouted with joy, but as it was still the morning, I did not want to wake up my neighbors.

\tThere were still other parts of my fantasy, however, that I needed to test out.  I looked outside my window.  No one was present on the quiet suburban streets.  Perhaps they had already headed to work; I knew I wasn't going to show up to work today.  I took off my pajamas, put on some clothes and shoes, and went outside.

\tIn other dreams that I've had, I was able to run at incredible speeds.  Some of my dreams have even shown me to be running faster than the speed of sound.  I wanted to test this while the streets were still empty.

\tI walked out into the middle of the street, and began to run.

\tThe sudden velocity of my movement nearly caused me to tumble backwards.  I was FLYING down the street.  It was as if someone had pushed the gas pedal of a ferrari down all the way, and was going down a mountain, and had a rocket booster attached to the car.  I was going FAST.  REAL fast.  The sheer shock of it caused me to try to skid to a halt, and by my count it took ten seconds to do so.  I swear I even saw flames coming from my feet while I was stopping.

\tOnce I was stopped, I place my hands on my knees and tried to catch my breath.  I hoped nobody had seen me- but then again, what cop would believe anything about a speeding fox?  I retreated quickly back inside the house, and squealed with excitement.  I knew that my dream was going to become a reality.  The world would soon be saved.  And I was going to be the one to save it.", "pools_count": 0, "title": "Hero: Day 2", "deleted": "f", "public": "t", "mimetype": "text/plain", "pagecount": "1", "rating_id": "0", "rating_name": "General", "ratings": [], "submission_type_id": "12", "type_name": "Writing - Document", "guest_block": "f", "friends_only": "f", "comments_count": "0", "views": "15" }