Dreams I’ve had; unedited but (for better or worse) not always fully remembered.
A local hero, running for election. He is young and single, but he is half-retarded–some kind of Big City village idiot of the proletariat. We join our Local Hero and his brother and sister and brother-in-law as they set up for the first big speech of the campaign. It’s at an open air market. Market […]
Teeth. Teeth grinding. Terrible pressure. Hundreds of thousands of pounds of pressure. They break off. A whole row of teeth. Like my body made its own dentures. But they come off in ragged, jagged edges. A U-shaped blade of bone. Shove it back in, clamp down. Try to get those teeth to stay in place. […]
He has taken a new job in what must be the smallest town in ruralest Vermont. Was it programming? Maybe, but it definitely has something to do with the police. Being the dispatcher for the police in this town. Maybe even the town’s sole police officer. The joke in the state is that the town’s […]
There is a single hair growing out of the whites of my eye. It’s a short, thick, coarse black hair. Like a beard’s whisker two days after the razor. The hair is bothersome, irritating. Every blink is like passing a kidney stone, every sidelong glance a slash to the wrist. Fine pink lines radiate out […]
A race against the clock. A battle against a violent fiend. The villain is badly hurt. But his mutations have given him an uncanny strength. It is difficult to say if he is rejuvenating, but he is definitely growing. Taller. Thicker. Strong? He is visibly, viscerally deformed. Snarling. He pounds down steel doors. Smashes through […]
The Empire State Building is on fire. Engulfed in flames. Beautiful, symmetric, dancing, diaphanous Hollywood flames. Chemical flames. Tongues of flames. Flames that want to lick the inky night sky. They fire fighters have all come out to fight the fire. Ladders. They are stacking ladders up the side of the building, consecutively up the […]
Post-apocalyptic? Under a subterranean sky? Civilizations crumble; infrastructures crumble. You band together with whomever is left, with whomever you are close to when it all went down. Folks from work; the odds were in favor of it being them. Holed up somewhere, we all load up–stuff backpacks full of provisions: food, rope, matches, green metal […]
I’m at… work? No, not work. The floors are concrete but this is an Eastern Shore-style crab house. Concrete floors and rows upon rows of long red picnic tables covered in newspaper. But I may as well be at work. I’m surrounded by co-workers, all of us toting our laptops. We take our seats around […]
I. We’re having a party at the house. I look out front and those tire tracks are back. And there are way too many cars parked in the driveway. I rush out there to see what’s going on. There is someone I don’t recognize changing his oil in the driveway, his car half hanging out […]
It’s you and me baby. The way we used to be. But older. Wiser? That’s debatable. Our conversations meander just as much. Maybe more? We avoid the important questions. Same as we always did? More so? The air is thinner. Thinner than you used to be. You’re not that thin anymore. The air between us […]