Dreams I’ve had; unedited but (for better or worse) not always fully remembered.
I’m back in my hometown of Gaithersburg, Maryland. It seems as though A & I have moved into my parents’ old Tulip Drive house. (Oddly enough, it’s even furnished exactly the same as I remember it.) We’re hanging out with Adam and Sue, having a fun old time as the evening starts to settle in […]
I’m at this cocktail party. It’s OK as far as cocktail parties go. This isn’t where I want to be but for whatever reason I’m compelled to be here and am sucking it up for the sake of that motivation. Plus there’s an open bar, which helps. Maybe I’m made most uncomfortable by the fact […]
Work is now for some reason situated in a high school classroom. Computers have all been replaced with spiral notebooks and walls with chalkboards. I’m surrounded by all the same people though, each detail otherwise exactly the same except slightly scaled down perhaps to fit into those beige desk/chair things. I don’t like it here […]
I’m crashing at Brian and Debbie’s house due to one hell of a snow storm. (This makes enough sense.) What surprises me though is that they’ve finished their basement and it’s now an efficiency apartment. And I have a co-worker living there… (Apparently she’s their daughter. Who knew?) For some reason, they call her “the […]
There’s a serial killer on the loose. (Why is everywhere I go always dark and cloudy grey misty dark and staticky skyward?) Buildings packed in close and crowded. Slums but too nice but not comfortable. Bricks and mortar and glass and edges. Not as much graffiti as you’d expect. (Isn’t this the same city as […]
For whatever reason, I’m charged with creating woks for some town. The town itself is vaguely post-apocalyptic; entirely underground in the way that subways are but fashioned out of buried, converted double-wides and other modular structures. It’s lit up by fluorescent bulbs which give everything a grey-green mid-80s schoolhouse pallor. Everything seems to be made […]
A porn theater as a community’s cultural center. There’s nothing taboo about this. It isn’t some counter-culture or bohemia or anything like that. The theater just happens to sit at the heart of town and the townspeople flock there as if it were the local tabernacle or tavern. Truth be told, there aren’t too many […]
My youngest brother and his girlfriend. A and I have them over to our place. We’re living down the street from my folks for some reason. There’s a big wedding shindig going down at their place. Very multi-day. Very heavy shit. My brother and his girlfriend are staying with A and I during the first […]
Top floor of an old Victorian house rented out by A & I. A typical Vermont living arrangement in many respects. Things have been strange lately. Rumors abound re: some kind of imminent plague or attack. It’s all fairly vague but everyone we know is at least a little freaked out. We have tried not […]
“Super Mario Brothers” meets Another Roadside Attraction meets Dawn of the Dead. Late afternoon mushroom picking. They only grow on dead bodies. But they instill one with supernatural strengths. It’s also all there is to eat except perhaps the dead bodies. But the fact that there are mushrooms growing on them is enough to suggest […]