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dream.20160123: through the window

by Rob Friesel

You’re fleeing the monster. Run through the city. You never see it, but you can hear it. Hear its growl. Hear the rumble of its footsteps. You hide behind buildings. Dodging. Evading. Never more than a step ahead. Sounds of destruction and carnage. But you’re running out of places to run, to hide. You make […]

dream.20151224: chimeras

by Rob Friesel

You are overrun by them. An infestation of a grotesque mouse-octopus chimera. Little black oily vermin; naked tails and little furry rumps that coalesce into a mass of writhing black tentacles. Traps can’t hold them. And as they swarm, you try to stomp them out. Black ichor runs from their wounds. But, once cut in […]

dream.20150527: pit of despair

by Rob Friesel

Interviewing Rob Zombie, moments before a concert. The backstage room is oddly well-lit and sparkling clean. (You expected gloom and filth?) There isn’t much time for questions. You jump right into it. What’s your greatest fear? your personal hell? He explains: Being cast into pit of writhing tormented bodies, and each one is a clone […]

dream.20140811: stalled brew

by Rob Friesel

After being the first person to crowd-surf at a company meeting (and this after asking one of the all-time out-of-left-field questions), you retire to your home to start in on brewing your first ever batch of beer. You expected to be joined by at least one friend for help (and company) but upon opening the […]

dream.20140107: overlap

by Rob Friesel

You’re at a co-worker’s party. You spend most of the time chasing your kids around the house as they zip up and down the stairs and between the people engaged in the conversations that you’d like to be engaged in. You catch some smiles and a few one-liners as you get close enough to them, […]