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The Dream Warned Me a Month Before He Assaulted Me

Kelly Oxford · kellyoxford

Sep 1, 2026 · 1 min listen · Last updated September 1, 2026

The nights of Los Angeles in early January 2025 were dark and glowed red. My power was out for 5 days. I was alone with my pets. I learned how to shoot a gun. A salt pellet gun, similar to a pepper spray gun.

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The nights of Los Angeles in early January 2025 were dark and glowed red. My power was out for 5 days. I was alone with my pets. I learned how to shoot a gun.

A salt pellet gun, similar to a pepper spray gun. I planned to shoot the wall behind the people who were surely coming to rob and assault me during those 5 nights of darkness.

I target practiced in the daylight in my backyard with Coke cans while listening to AM radio reports of fires starting on the back hills of Encino.

I don’t even recall the moment the lights came back on. You’d think I would. Seems like it would be an exciting moment of relief.

I do remember the phone call from my friend Albert.

[Trigger warning: The following story contains sexual assault. I’m telling it because the danger I prepared for wasn’t the danger that found me.]

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