Dreams I’ve had; unedited but (for better or worse) not always fully remembered.
I’m on the crew that is responsible for refreshing a Shaw’s every two-to-three quarters. It happens at night, secretly. So you’ll never notice. Some of it you might notice. The deep cleaning, fresh paint, floors mopped and waxed, the shelves reconfigured; sometimes it’s a little more obvious than not. The part that always bugs me […]
We’re out front of a hotel, waiting for a cab when we see him. He’s just a little kid — he’s maybe six years old. But there he is, breaking glass bottles on the street. At first it’s a little funny. “Ha! Look at that kid smash those bottles!” But it isn’t long before smashing […]
I’m at my grandparents’ house and I dash into the bathroom to use the toilet. Moments after I sit down, there’s a loud sound at the door. I think it’s someone knocking but before I can open my mouth to shout, my brother breaks down the door. His face is red, veins are bulging from […]
So much noise from the condo below us. So much screaming. They must have a million voices down there. A million droning groans. A million zombie renters. Quick! Lock the doors! Bar them! Barricade! But no sooner does the deadbolt turn then we notice the cat has slipped out. They’ll eat him! Instead, they come […]
A. & I have returned from equally hard days at work. Something in one of her experiments has gone amiss and a week’s worth of data collection have been wasted. I’ve had an argument with a superior over whether a particular aspect of the system should be processed “front-end” vs. “back-end”. Meanwhile, the city still […]
In a heart-warming tale of friendship and perseverence, Alan Shepard rescues fellow astronaut Gus Grissom from the throes of heroin addiction just in time for his first trip in the Mercury rocket. Alan bursts through the door of that cheap, Cape Canaveral apartment to find an ashen-skinned Grissom sprawled out in a ratty, overturned chair. […]
We’ve moved to a town that’s three parts Barre to one part Gaithersburg. A. & I have purchased a new-to-you car that has got to be vintage 1970s and may as well require a crew of fifteen to put to sea. The car doesn’t really drive though. It mostly just rolls downhill into our driveway. […]
The plane is the size of a child’s toy but it will transport you across great distances. Just grab it around the fuselage (pinching it is best) just like a child would and mime the take-off routine. Suddenly you will find yourself inside, soaring high above the Earth in Soviet-era luxury. You are the Commandant, […]
A. and I are driving down a road. It’s a dirt road headed through a tangle of trees but it’s also a side-street of this town’s major thoroughfare. We’re headed into the neighborhood where we live. We pull up to a stop sign and I check both ways. In my rearview mirror I see someone […]
We’re assembling bombs from materials we’ve picked up at the grocery store. The plastique and blasting caps and timers and wires and napalm are arranged in barrels like they use for the bulk foods aisle at food co-ops. The plastique is in an array of neon and pastel colors. We mold them into little rabbits […]