Stories tagged dream

Fleas

747747 views44 comments33 favs

Quite like your dream, a dress of fleeceA comet's tail astride your belly: fleas,Bleeding out this house you've leased.That flossy train in sleep. Felicitous,He's come again, a man, to fleeceYou from a $5, which, awfully at ease,He does, then goes where addicts go. He…

The Song of the Jardin Venus

12931293 views00 comments00 favs

The place is a living rebirth, And all death is only temporary. For soon in the land, the soil, For soon in

My First Post-9/11 Dream: In Which I Discover Life After Death

11961196 views00 comments00 favs

January 3rd EST/January 2nd PST 2002 It's 1:45 am or 10:45 pm depending on your philosophy about changing your watch when you fly. My plane is scheduled to land in San Francisco soon, but I'm completely disoriented because I've just had my first post-9/11 dream. …

Ladybird

10161016 views22 comments11 fav

On the other pillow is a ladybird which escaped from a dream. It reminds me of when I was a tiny red polka dot. And then bigger, and other colours. And then… I stare at the ceiling, searching its soul for little things. The ladybird touches my arm, whispers…

Sliver

16921692 views88 comments55 favs

It was beautiful and bright and it felt so real.

Europa

12591259 views00 comments00 favs

The sink spat its water in a most erratic and vindictive fashion, with varying temperatures of discomfort and a nefariously mechanical nonchalance. Her arms are elbow deep in the misbehaving appliance, it looked to us as if she was drowning a small rodent

Dreamcatchers

5353 views66 comments22 favs

Two writers sat down for a meal, carefully avoiding any talk of their art.

Dream Life (flash friday)

11831183 views00 comments00 favs

Virginia hated herself for every moment she spent wondering what it would have been like if things had been different. How would her life be if Glen hadn’t been misdiagnosed, if he hadn’t died when she was a year married and four months pregnant? Not

Brother Dream

12541254 views22 comments11 fav

It’s always daylight there My brother comes running down the sidewalk holding out his arms and calling my name He’s wearing suspenders. He’s gotten thinner in heaven He embraces me warmly wanting us to be friends I give up trying to re

Faithless

11201120 views11 comment00 favs

She was now sitting in her bathtub. The warmth of the water made her pale, rich vanilla skin flushed with the fullness of circulation as her pores continued to allow the passage of her toxins from her system.

to day

15591559 views1717 comments55 favs

I turn my head. Time starts running.

Fall Of The Twin Towers

10021002 views44 comments00 favs

Sitting at an outside table at the Bassett Café on West Broadway, I remember, in the background always the Twin Towers behind me in the photographs from that time And the sparrows in New York, bolder than anywhere working over the scrap

A Vicious Deer

959959 views22 comments00 favs

A Vicious Deer The man came across the hall to talk to us. He was buying some paintings. He had a white deer on a leash. Fosca (our Malamute) said: “That's a vicious deer.” She kept putting her paw on its shoulder. I said: “You bet

Lenin's Paintings

12691269 views22 comments00 favs

I was going through Lenin's jewelry and his paintings with a team of experts. I got the idea that I was hired to verify his paintings, although I didn't know he painted.

Dreams-in-progress

13661366 views1313 comments77 favs

A team of reggae journalists played and an unknown man came after work for me in a kilt.