Dreams I’ve had; unedited but (for better or worse) not always fully remembered.
I am trying to clear my name. A building: square, central courtyard cut-out, offices along the sides and stairwells at the corners. I’m here with a small crew? You all wait outside while I try and clear my name. An interview? An interrogation? Some simple misunderstanding? The office is empty when I go inside. Do […]
Narrator/point-of-view: third person, detached. Like 40s detective noir or some awful late 90s independent cinema. I’m involved but not central, hardly pivotal. Nate (from Six Feed Under) has moved on to some private detective’s agency on the coast of Florida. He’s investigating some shady real estate deals there. Something is seriously wrong; all of the […]
The dentist is very concerned about the state of my bottom teeth. He won’t tell me what’s wrong but he does explain that they’re in very bad shape. He’s afraid that he needs to pull them. From the bottom left incisor through the next four choppers. It’s going to be quite a procedure. He sends […]
An almost high school hallway but it never ends, doorways on all sides. I’m too old for these childish games but just the same, I’m trying to fit in with this half-dozen or so of The Cool Kids. We’re all laughing and I think we’re laughing together but they’re laughing at me. Like I’m The […]
We’re at each others’ throats, people from work and myself. These should be simple enough visualizations of easy-to-graph data but they still keep missing these subtle but critical aspects of each. “My mother could graph better than this,” but that sounds like an insult to too many parties to be fair in any respect. They’ve […]
War! Revolution! A corporation and a hospital vie for control of the same building. Although it was originally built as a hospital, they sought financial aid from this company. Ever since, the two organizations have been at each others’ throats, trying to secure total control over the building, adding to it (arcology-style) as they go. […]
We have gone to a small mountain (like Mt. Philo but not) to go sledding. The whole hike up, all I’m thinking is: What’s the point? There’s hardly any snow anyway… And besides, I seem to have forgotten my sled. Nevertheless, at the top, this group of so-called friends belittles me for having forgotten my […]
A. and I have a minor quibble about our vacation plans. It seems that when I thought I’d scheduled our trip to Turkey a year from now, it was actually only two weeks away. Those international vacation plans now conflict with our more local, family-and-friends-related vacation plans. Startled and appalled by my own reckless actions […]
There is a house that A. and I are interested in buying. It needs a little work but it’s all cosmetic. We’ll rip out some carpet, tear down some wallpaper, that sort of thing. At least it seems “all cosmetic” and so our interest is piqued but it isn’t long before our agent and A. […]
Through inexplicable humanitarian means, A. & I have acquired some kind of hybrid animal — a chimera that’s got the head of a Rottweiler and the body of sea lion (however, far more conveniently sized). The creature has the Rottweiler fur and needs to wear a wetsuit in order to keep the proper hydrodynamics for […]