Francine "Fran" Parker

She was having the dream again. A strange dream in which all the colors in the world had disappeared and been replaced by black and white.

She was in a cemetery watching a young blonde girl walk home from her mother's grave. A man who looked like her brother kept teasing her.

"They're coming to strip you, Barbara," he said. "They're coming to strip you naked and then they'll devour all your clothes so that you'll have nothing to put on anywhere."

Wait a minute, thought Fran. This was a brother talking to his sister? I mean, who talks like that?

And a world in which wild-eyed mutant zombies roam the earth devouring clothes and forcing their female victims to go naked? Thank God I don't live in a world like that, Fran thought.

Then a terrible realization hit her. A realization that **** her to wake up.

Oh my God! thought Fran as she roused herself from an otherwise much-needed sleep. I do live in a world like that. Only my world is in color!