Lying on the table awaiting surgery, I wondered when I would lose consciousness. I felt the table begin to rotate. It turned faster until it was spinning and the room was a blur. The table also began to rise as the doctors entered the room. I could feel more than hear a faint yelling as I spun. I felt some pressure on my stomach and hoped that it ( Read more... )

We watched a Japanese animation film. It had an interesting story, but ended with the sudden and inexplicable violent deaths of the three main characters. After we turned it off, a gray-bearded man who lived in our building walked in and told us that none of us would survive today ( Read more... )

During a break between classes, I noticed that I had forgotten my apartment key. I knew where [m] would be at the time, so I went looking for her. I found her walking between buildings, and didn't recognize her at first. She looked too young. She let me borrow her key, and I headed back to my apartment. I referred to the number etched on the key to ( Read more... )

When I arrived late for class, I noticed a timeline of video game consoles across the three chalk boards. It seemed that the class was waiting for me to point out any omissions or errors. I wasn't sure I'd be able to remember some of the older, more obscure ones without looking them up ( Read more... )

Peaceful elf-like people lived in a city floating high in the sky. Mean-spirited royalty from a much larger flying colony didn't like the peaceful tribe. One of their pointy-eared warriors sat atop an aircraft that encased two large dragons, or worms. When the craft reached the smaller settlement, the dragon heads extending from either side bit ( Read more... )

We lived in a big city with many tall buildings. Several 18-wheelers were parked in front of the apartment building where we lived and I needed to move one out of the way. I ran it into something. Not very hard, but setting off a chain reaction that damaged several other large trucks in both lanes. No one was in any of the vehicles, so no one got ( Read more... )

After we finished eating, I got up to inspect the museum exhibits in the old restaurant. There were only a few displays, and the subject of all of them was an apparent haunting in the nearby fields and forest ( Read more... )

We were staying at a sort of swimming resort. It consisted of a series of apartments in white cylindrical buildings, and a series of above-ground swimming pools--also white and cylindrical. Some rested on the ground, some were partially sunk, and some jutted out from cliffsides. The area was mountainous, and the pools were at many different levels ( Read more... )

I hadn't bothered going to work in a while. I doubted anyone else would have been there. Even if I had meaningful work to do and was paid for it, money was useless. We were just sort of wandering around my parents' house. We weren't going to stay there, but we didn't have anywhere else to go, either. I considered trying to hide some things so that ( Read more... )

After almost missing the bus, I discovered as I stepped on and showed my ticket that I had boarded the wrong bus. Back on the street, I saw that I would not be able to catch the one I was supposed to take. But the driver seemed to somehow know I was there. The bus stopped and let me on ( Read more... )