A couple dozen people in the Ozarks, most of them unemployed teachers, were hired for a three-day project. I was one of the few with a background in production and daily deadlines. We boarded a bus and were taken to a facility and set to work. The atmosphere was

I’m the new guy at an acting troupe that has a three story building for its performances. I’m tall and dreamy looking, but quiet. One of the girls takes to me instantly, and it’s clear we’ll become both good friends and more than friens. But that

I’m living in Brooklyn Heights and going to a college in downtown Brooklyn. Downtown Brooklyn is that wonderful alternate-Earth place I often dream about. I’m walking with Rob. He says he saw something on the news about so-and-so. Let’s say the name was Hamilton

[ Image: Pasted Graphic 15.tiff ] This was a few nights ago. I was in Marthasville, near the Edwards’ house, at night, with some others. We saw an object moving in the sky, a large circular object with lights all around its shell. I had the feeling I always have in

[ Image: url.jpg ] There were about five of us standing on a narrow, lacy thread of substance far away in outer space. We had been taken there to do a particular mission of discovery. This was a part of outer space that had oxygen and gravity. As long as we

I was working at The Missourian again. Again, I didn’t write a single story—just could not get myself interested in reporting. It has been like this in all my dreams of returning to my first newspaper job. I think I usually have these dreams when I’m nervous

Email to Linda Beaver — There was a story in my dreams last night that played like a movie. I want to write it down, and since you were one of the actors, it seems only fair to make you read it—I mean let you read it. A small, poor

[ Image: url.jpg ] I was at home again—Holiday Ranch. All eight of us siblings were there, hanging around in the kitchen. Conversation and everyone in a merry mood, as if it were a holiday.1 Dad was content but not saying much, not a dominant force, not a large

[ Image: wiffleball.png ] [ Image: wiffleball.png ] From an email to Rob—You and I and two others were trying to get good as a wiffle ball team. We were working from a wiffle ball script you had written. We would meet once a week to rehearse. The place we met