The Exam I Never Registered For
I am seventy-one years old and I dreamt about an examination in a subject I have never studied. Statistics, apparently. The hall was the gymnasium of the school I taught at, not the one I…
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Public dreams, most recent firstSomeone Else's Kitchen
I was cooking in a kitchen I didn't recognise, and I knew where everything was. That was the whole feeling of it. I reached for the colander without looking and it was where my hand went.…
The Dog Could Talk But Only About Money
A greyhound, in the kitchen, discussing interest rates with total confidence. Not in a cartoon voice — a normal adult voice, slightly bored, like someone on a podcast. I tried several times…
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Unfinished Building, Third Visit
Same building as February and as last autumn. Concrete frame, no cladding, staircases that arrive at floors that aren't poured yet. I know it well enough now that I have preferences about…
My Grandmother Was Younger Than Me
She was maybe twenty-five, in a dress I've only seen in one photograph, and she was talking to me the way you talk to a colleague. Practical. Slightly impatient. She wanted help moving a…
Anonymousdreamed July 131 min
I Kept Forgetting to Feed Something
There was an animal in a room in my flat that I had not been into for a while, and I remembered it the way you remember an unsent email — suddenly, physically, in the chest. I never saw it.…
Anonymousdreamed July 101 min
Water Rising in the Stairwell
The stairwell of my mother's building. The water was coming up rather than falling — already at the second landing, clear, cold-looking, moving slowly the way water does when there's a…