Lizard Girl

I was in a small high school classroom. The teacher asked one of the students what her password was for enrolling, and the girl had no idea. The other students laughed at her. She was wearing a long quilted skirt and put part of it her mouth and chewed. She started to grow taller and then a scaly tail poked out from the bottom of her skirt. She turned into a huge scaly square shape and filled the classroom, so I opened the door to escape into the hall. She had eaten some sort of a radioactive square piece of metal off her skirt, which made her mutate.

I was in a truck with Brad. There was a man sitting between us on the bench seat. He poured water into a trough behind the seat and I stood up quickly to keep my butt dry. Brad didn't realize he was getting wet, and then he got quietly mad at the other guy.

Halloween

It was late on Halloween night, and Brad and I were hanging out in my Elm Avenue house in Norman. We heard a sound at the door, and Brad said, "Oh no! The remote control thief has come!" I said, "What did you do with the remote controls?" Brad replied, "I put them on the ledge on the outside of the front door." We went to get them, and they were safe. Standing on the front porch, I looked across the yard and saw Bill from Interzone creeping across the yard with a bag of candy in each hand. When he saw me, he froze in his tracks, and I heard him say telepathically that he was delivering candy as a surprise.

Ralph from Lord of the Flies was hanging around somewhere. I was on a medical/cheerleading team in a swampy city. I walked down the street with my team members and told them that we were finding a Halloween party that night, no matter what.

Assault!

My math professor had a habit of taking walks at night a few blocks north of campus. He wore a musical badge and pushed a shopping cart. One night I walked down a street near his usual route and saw a small dog with the musical badge attached to its collar disappearing around the corner. I knew this was a bad sign. I was in the gym of the university when the professor stumbled in. His hair was messed up, black eye, glasses crooked, and his clothes were torn. We all rushed to help him. I grabbed a cell phone to dial 911, but I couldn't figure out how to dial. Did I have to use an area code? Did I have to dial 9 to get out since I was on campus?

I was buying and modeling black and white straw wedding hats. I found a few styles I liked, and passed the others on to Brad.

I was in band. I wore a uniform and held my saxophone. We were in a gym, standing in a line, playing a fight song. I couldn't remember how the music went, so I planned to pretend I was playing, but I kept accidentally actually playing, and I didn't know what I was doing. Someone handed me a joint and I put it in a pocket in my uniform. I looked into the stands and saw Peter sitting in the top row, dressed in white, smoking the other half of the joint and smiling and waving. A woman called me over to her and asked to search my uniform. I told her no way, and dared her to try. She made a move toward me and I moved very close to her, bared my teeth, and made claws out of my hands. We clawed the air around each other and growled and made biting mouths, but we didn't touch each other.

Little Shop of Beds

I was in a tiny, tiny shop that sold mattresses. As I looked around, I saw that there weren't any mattresses for sale. There was only one sad, dirty mattress on the floor next to a round coffee table, which had a blue blanket draped over it and an empty ashtray on top.

Clay Baby

I gave birth to a baby--it was just a soft lump of clay covered in short gray hairs with a stub of a neck but no head. I examined the color of the hair to see who the dad was--I was scared it was Mario.

Cline Canyon

I was with Diane in Cline Canyon National Park. We followed a trail beside a road to a parking lot, listening to a family who was walking up the road to their van. They had chosen to be homeless and were very happy. We continued up the trail as it followed a ridge. I was paying attention to the plants near my feet, not the view. The trail turned into a red rock outcropping and I climbed on through the rocks on all fours. When I looked up, I was at the very top of a small pointed boulder with a view thousands of feet down to misty light green trees covering the floor of the canyon. I almost froze up, but managed to back down off the rock.

Troy

Troy was with me at Squirrel's. Instead of a pool table, there was ping pong. I thought we were going to play doubles with another couple, but instead it was two pairs of singles, and I wasn't invited. I ordered a beer.

I was trying to get to the airport. I made it onto a plane, and it taxied down a hilly road for hours.

Many Men

I was at Tara's wedding in the country. It was an important social event for everyone, and there were photographers from the newspaper there. I came early to help in the kitchen. Later I left, and when I came back, I made an entrance through a gate. A blond guy who looked like the Two Gallants singer introduced himself to me. We started talking and he said, "I love your use of the superlative!" I asked him what he meant, and he said, "your adverbs and adjectives!" Then he said he was a Tweeker, but I knew he meant a Twin Peaks fan, and we were happy to have that in common. We were very delighted with each other. I was sitting on a couch with him, and he got up to leave. A dark-haired guy came into the room and sat on the couch next to me, and I realized that he and I had a lot in common, too. Later I was leaning on a truck with one on either side of me when I got the news that Brad was breaking up with me. Then the blond guy left because he knew I was crying over another guy.

Canada

Brad and I went to B.C. to explore some land along the edge of an icy mountain range. He turned into Troy, and Troy and I had sex. Troy was on top, and I put my hands on his butt. It felt great, but suddenly he stopped and sneered at me and said, "Don't you think I can do this by myself?" referring to my hands, as though as I were directing him. I told him that of course he could, and that it was going very well. We continued, and soon he stopped again and told me to take my hands off his ass. A moment later I saw him working his mouth around, like he was trying to get something off a tooth, and then he spit on my face. I pushed him off me and jumped up, and then Troy turned back into Brad. I told him it was over and ran off. I was angry, but mostly sad. Later I was in bed with Maressa and I told her the story about being spit on. She asked me if I would live with her.