In a 50s style Dairy Queen. Waiting 3 hours for a chocolate shake and flipping out at the servers. Finally getting my shake and it’s warm, dark liquid. In a sitting room crowded with furniture and books. I open a coffee table book. The pages are thick and coated like wallpaper samples. Some drawings are […]
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I’m walking downhill to go to the bank. I have to get there before they close so that I’m ready to leave the country. I’ve won a scholarship to spend a year on the Blue Isle in a place called M_______ M_____ (even in the dream I could not remember the name long enough to […]
sitting on a long couch with several others. a man enters the room with a gift bag and sits down at the opposite end. he pulls out the gift inside and asks us for our opinion. it’s a collection of three perfumes with nature names, sea mist and such. he says he got them for […]
There’s a book that i want but it’s $106. it’s the secrets of astronomy and it’s signed by stephen jay gould. psyche buys it for me and i can’t believe a friend would do such a sweet expensive thing. she tells me that she knew i really wanted it so of course she would make […]
we are here to vote either for or against a new election. we are given what looks like popcorn balls, styrofoam seed pods. when you split them open children’s colorful refrigerator magnets are inside. they aren’t letters, they’re symbols. to vote for trump, you use any of the red magnets. some of the reds are […]
i made it through to the finals of American Ninja Warrior fairly easily. there were five of us competing, 3 women and 2 men. i suspected that this round was made intentionally easy so that a few chicks would make it through for ratings, but it turned out that i was the only one of […]
i’m being examined to see if i’m ready to move out into the world, out of this monastery. i’m a 12 year old boy in robes. i know all of the answers. but when they ask me the last question they hand me a red book with light pen scratches on the yellowed pages and […]
dreamed i could throw up walls anywhere to create a safe space for practicing magic. my shields went up in the middle of the desert. in a restaurant that was closing soon. in a professor’s home next to a meditation pond like the one in this dream. while sitting on a surgery table in the dark […]
in a bedroom with my great grandma I. she’s taking too long to die and we’re impatient so me and my father pack her up. he asks me what it smells like in her room and i say, while pissing into a plastic bag, “it smells like urine.” good, he says. i pack the bag […]
i dreamed i was following a character as her story progressed. the character’s name was maggie and i was going to her hometown, following her journey by train and car. a woman at a ticket booth in the train station said that she used to loooooooooove maggie! she got teary remembering her story. she showed […]
