These Dreams of You

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For a long time after the pizza incident, Zan told no one about it. He certainly didn’t tell his parents. Finally he wrote about it, showing what he wrote only to Logan Hale, who remarked on the young man’s detachment. “You were mugged,” Hale exhorted him, “you have a right to be enraged,” but the rage never came. For the most part Zan forgot about it, only for the memory to surface again years later still shorn of fury, as far as he can tell.