Dreams I’ve had; unedited but (for better or worse) not always fully remembered.
I’m on a webdev team and there’s some kind of 3rd party slideshow app that needs to get plugged into the right-hand sidebar. Their API has a lot of neat hooks — really comprehensive stuff — but it has some of the poorest documentation we’ve ever seen. The launch deadline for the site is fast […]
Cross country road trip and I’m bringing up the rear. Everyone else has already arrived at our destination, a Baltimore-style row house on a Barre-style hill. It isn’t so much that I’m late but I’m the one that got stuck driving solo without a map and without any additional means to contact everyone (unless you […]
The folks “at work” have created an RFID-like device that’s about the size of a flea. It can be sprinkled anywhere on a person’s body to transmit GPS-type coordinates, temperature, pressure and speed, and a bouquet of other data. They’re all excited about it and explain that it’s best installed in someone’s shoe (better for […]
A college law class in a high school classroom. The teacher has Lawerence Lessig’s face but Warren Ellis’ beard; and Angela Lansbury’s body. I come in late and set up on top of a desk as far back in the classroom as I can. I need to change my shirt and spend the better part […]
I meet them down by the seaside. Not a beach; boulders and cliffs for miles in both directions. The landscape and the temperature are both Maine but the skies and the bugs are all Florida. I’ve got the bag slung over my shoulder; it’s heavy and limp, the straps digging into my shoulder. I have […]
The perspective is third person like television show or how you imagine the narrator’s eyes in such novels. It’s the tale of a small group of boys in a Faulknerian but alternative-history South, early twentieth century. A little bit steampunk, a little bit magical realism. The boys are fascinated by tales of some one-man traveling […]
I headed over to the mall because someone said that a new, “deluxe” music store had opened and that I would no doubt be able to find a new mixer there. I’d been telling practically everyone about how my current Numark was on its last beat and also how difficult it has been to find […]
We enter through an old converted firehouse, climbing the stairs all the way up to the roof. The roof (it turns out) is a huge parking lot with hills on either side. Cars are arranged in your typical tailgate fashion; one vehicle might take up two or three spaces by the time its various coolers […]
Harrison Ford reprises the role of Indiana Jones in a mash-up of Raiders… and The Shining. Indy is the caretaker of this huge lodging throughout the blisteringly cold, snowed-in winter months. He slowly realizes that all of the requests being made by guests are either ghosts or hallucinations and this plunges him into a psychotic […]
The police are rightfully after me. After getting out of work at my warehouse job, I got into my 1984 Buick Skylark and jammed over to the local package store. I tanked up that guzzler and bought myself a pint of Lord Calvert for the drive home. (Truth be told, I’d been shit-faced since lunch.) […]