Dreams I’ve had; unedited but (for better or worse) not always fully remembered.
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 […]
I am at a rock gym in … Maine? It has an unusual layout and setup. Rather than a series of routes set up along walls, you rotate between routes that are setup in “alleys” or “lanes”. The traditional wall is replaced with what is (in essence) a tunnel, and each route quickly ascends up […]
After a long and humiliating training, my “brother” Jedi and myself are ready for our first assignments. Our mission? To pilot and defend a re-purposed, Corellian-equivalent of a school bus, taking it and its Rebel contents from one secret encampment to another. The Rebellion is young and the Empire still spreading its tentacles – Order […]
The whole “Extended Family” (plus “the new favorites”) is here for the occasion. The whole old school SMCM crew. It’s a pot luck and everyone has pulled put all the stops. There’s a little bit of everything: spicy beef tips, a herbed crusty bread, an Indian dish with lots of curry… I’ve dropped off my […]
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I’ve been kidnapped by a bunch of 80s-style coke dealers. They seem nice enough at first (mostly because I don’t realize that they’re drug dealers) as we drive around in their white Bronco. We talk about things. Skiing and snow-plowing. The drive is a long one. One of the guys starts talking about his meat […]
I’m in New York state as part of a secret government agency that has sent me to retrieve (extradite?) Omar Little (from The Wire). His van has been stolen and he needs some help getting out of the town but he’s also suspected of a series of crimes here. Naturally he maintains his non-involvement and […]
We’re at a bookstore, A. and I. It’s a used bookstore but it looks like a good haul. They have several copies of Snow Crash (for example) though they’re all in varying states of decay. I go through each one meticulously; I want to leave with one of them. I get an alert on my […]
I go in for a haircut but the salon has become a tattoo parlor instead. My usual stylist is there with the tattoo machine, preparing the needles and the inks. We make some chit-chat, catching up about The Boy and that time my refrigerator exploded. She asks me what I want and where I want […]
The kitchen isn’t a wreck but one of the chairs is pulled out and there is a basket of laundry left on the floor. I’m too exhausted to do anything about these errant items quite yet so I leave them where they are. I make some coffee and retire to the living room to drink […]