BENT: Wake or Cross
by Jay Squires
Johnny's Shrink is trying to convince him he is dead, or he is locked in a dream from which he needs to wake. How odd that must appear to Johnny, just exhaled from a nondescript rectangular container, and now sitting before this man who appears as jolly as a younger version of a gnarly Santa. Johnny has no memory of anything, even his name, yet is doled out his life-history by this Santa-shrink.