Dreams I’ve had; unedited but (for better or worse) not always fully remembered.
We’re at the airport with A.’s parents and another couple, A.’s parent’s friends. We’re all headed back to Vermont. S. has helped his friend get his (the friend’s) plane ready and now they’re taxing out of the hangar and onto the runway, and about to take off. A. is retraining H. (who wants to touch […]
It’s an electronics store in a castle. Even the shelves are stone. We are in a rush, so I do not carefully inspect each item. I grab a basket. And I start filling it with parts. The breadboard, resistors… I don’t know what I’m looking for. I don’t even have a plan. I just start […]
A dinner party. A function. A banquet. But you arrive early. They shuffle you into a back room, a speakeasy type of lounge to wait. But it is the wrong one, even though you recognize some of your friends and acquaintances. You try to order a drink but there are interruptions. People in front of […]
You’re skeptical of him. You always have been. He comes on the scene, and some claim he has the credentials to back it all up–but what have you ever seen him do? Nothing. And your–well, it’s not quite contempt, but close enough to it, and it’s obvious to all. Fortunately, your encounters with him are […]
Me and J. McD. are sitting in period 1980s lawn chairs, smack in the middle of center field of some Little League game. (H.’s Little League game?) We’re drinking whiskey on the rocks from these crystal tumblers and talking about how such-and-such NBA player on such and such a team is going to help take […]
Irony: barely being able to recall the details of a dream entirely centered around waking up from a dream with barely-remembered fragments of a poignant story idea. Something that would work well in (say…) 2,500 words. Something that should be a snap to jot down. Something involving a Luciferian figure. But the details itself dry […]
Racing to get onto that plane. I got held up twice–first to wake up, and then to scrape gobs of green crap out from under my eyelid. The airport is down in the basement of MG’s house; and MG is having a party. The house is full of familiar faces, and everyone wants to chat […]
Tromping through fields and woods, to RK’s log cabin. (He has a log cabin now?) There are three of us. She is new to us, a pretty young thing that says that she is “looking for a change” (and leaves it at that). We get back to his cabin; it’s dim inside but we make […]
In a sudden change of plans, we move our family to the District of Columbia. Our new home is small and brick and horrifically over-priced. (Why have we moved here? Some hasty follow-the-business decision?) I assume that the yard to the house is tiny but it actually seems impossibly large. And overgrown. And the first […]
I’m at a party with JJA. He is drinking a beer out of a white paper cup and leaning up against a doorframe. It is the kind of party you would see in a movie about college fraternities. JJA is quiet and just watching the people go by. I introduce my self and we start […]