1 September 2026
I had a tiny pet lizard and he kept getting lost in stupid places like construction sites or wells. I don't understand why everyone kept letting him out of his cage because he was so tiny and would get lost immediately.
??? August 2026
I had a meeting with my English teacher to go over a story I had written and she told me she that other teachers had told her to look out for me because I try to get away with using A.I. (which broke my heart) and then she told me my story was good but my prose style was boring.
20 August 2026
An apocalyptically bad war broke out and my roommates and I managed to get on the last train out of the city. I remember looking in my bag and being upset that I didn't pack a full-sized notebook (only a memo pad). Our train was hijacked and we were taken to some sort of POW camp that I was able to escape from. For some reason the men in the camp were submerged in mud (like Peeta in the Hunger Games) and I had to pull them out to free them.
24 July 2026
I was a man with a wife and kids and in the apartment below me there lived a large group of strippers and they were like sirens to me. I woke up as I was descening into their masses and I remember thinking I have to go back to sleep
11 July 2026
I lived in my DC apartment with my mom, my brother and my sister. No Kenny or Jacob just us. We were out on the balcony when a massive tornado appeared and we all had to run down the stairwell (I've never been down my apartments stairwell) to hide.
Tornadoes happened a lot more frequently when I was a kid and I still get kinda scared when the sky turns a certain way or when the weather changes abruptly in the fall.
1 July 2026
I got into a fight with a stranger on the subway and ended up getting stabbed. I think maybe we stabbed each other. I got stabbed right in the belly button. I called all of my friends and they met me at the E.R. and we sat in the waiting room together. We waited and waited but it was too busy for them to see me so we decided to come back the next day.
By the next day I had started to develop sepsis. It seemed like my wound had started to heal over itself but I could feel that I was developing sepsis. My balance was off and I could feel my body rejecting itself. I tried to call my mom but she didn't answer even though it was my birthday.
23 June 2026
I'm in a high school art class and we have a special guest, some sculptor from Spain. She keeps saying she's from Madrid but our teacher introduces her as the sculptor from Spain. To get to te art class you have to go down ten flights of stairs and decsend into this cave that's lit with soft incandescent lamps.
We start the class by reading a short story called "The Elephant Man" (not the David Lynch picture) where four sisters are attacked by an anthropomorphic elephant who jumps into their bath, displaces all of the water, and floods their house. The four sisters float on the water out of the windows and fly over the city, running from the Elephant Man.
At some point during the class we all started getting out snacks and one girl in front of me brought out an entire air fryer tray of garlic knots, which seemed really funny to dream me.