Dreams I’ve had; unedited but (for better or worse) not always fully remembered.
We re-enter the house (she and I) after some outdoor chores. Immediately we can tell that something isn’t quite right. The air is an odd mix of hot and cold pockets and the smell of smoke is heavy and thick. She worries that something awful has happened (or is happening). We turn a corner to […]
The three of us have parked the car on the outskirts of the park, slung our gear over our shoulders and are hiking in to the park. It’s a strange sight: the parking lot is like the kind you would find at a mall — dark black asphalt, brightly painted white lines to indicate the […]
I am washing the dishes. There are a few plates and bowls but the sink is filled mostly with cutlery. As usual, I finish with the plates and bowls and pots and pans first. Moving on to the silverware, I notice that many of the spoons need to be thrown into the garbage. The first […]
It’s a knock-down, drag-out fight. MG and me. We are arguing. What is getting done? What isn’t getting done? How fast? What takes priority? Who takes priority? We have the same goals, we just disagree on how to get there. Fists are thrown, jaws are dislocated.
We sit in the basement in my parents’ old Tulip Drive house. We’re just inside the laundry room door, sitting on the concrete floor. The washer and dryer are running. We hear noises from above. What could they be? Our neighbor comes downstairs with a friend. A smell trails them. What is that? She shows […]
A friend that works at some loading dock style job has helped us to acquire a pair of very lightweight but very rugged, very sophisticated 20″ speakers. He tells us to keep quiet about it but that goes without saying. We thought that we’d made a clean getaway but no sooner do we get them […]
We are late in showing up for some kind of kids’ summer camp at the end of the world. The apocalypse has come and gone and at this junior Club Med, the only evidence of it is the thin supply of canned peaches. We arrive (fully adult) to take refuge among the juvenile survivors, perhaps […]
The Muppet Willie Nelson is out of jail and still he comes to us with his tail between his legs. He admits that he is ashamed that he never read “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven”. He is ashamed that he hacked into our bank accounts and cleared out all the money. He […]
A small team of spies planted in some Soviet downtown. We are here to look for a prince, a descendant of Nicholas II; he plays his own game of deep cover and has worked his way up through the Communist party’s ranks. The prince is high enough on the Soviet food chain that we feel […]
I are running late for the NCAA championship tournament; I was supposed to have met Dad there already. I’ve arranged a ride on this strange guy’s spare sailboat. Part of my problem is that I cannot get the lenses to fit correctly on the new camera. I have my silver-bodied Canon point-and-shoot digital in my […]