I am living with my cousin. We are the same age, and our parents have left us to live in England with Colin Firth because they have important business to take care of, and they can’t have two little girls tagging along with them. We never see them, and it is just the two of us, but we love living with Colin Firth. He is very nice to us and we can have anything we want. Colin Firth tells us we can go anywhere in the neighborhood but to stay away from one particular house. He points to it, and it is across the field from his house. For a long time we wonder about that house but we stay away from it. One day Colin Firth tells us that he is going away for awhile for business but he will be back and he is leaving us with the best nannies, teachers, and house staff that he has. We are sad that he is leaving but we know that he is coming back. He tells us not to forget to apply to universities while he is gone so we can get into the best ones as soon as he returns. After he leaves, my cousin and I are sad, but we start applying to universities and we work hard to get into universities. One day, while we are playing in the big field down near the stream, we hear odd noises coming from the house we are not supposed to go near. We are afraid, but we want to go see what is happening. We know that an odd man lives there. He is not that old, and he inherited his father’s business of embalming bodies. His work is very popular and almost everyone in town that has a loved one that has passed away goes to him. We know that we are supposed to stay away from the house, but we can’t help ourselves. We creep up to one of the large windows, and peak inside. We see the strange young man embalming a young women. She doesn’t look much older than we are at the time, maybe in her late teens or early twenties. He has a lot of steaming pots and pans and odd devices that make a lot of noise. He has weird tubes inserted in the women in peculiar places and all her blood is being sucked out of her. We know she is dead and that he is embalming her and we are not afraid, but the man is very weird and we do not like him. We know we should leave, but we stay and continue to watch him prepare her body. He starts to touch her in a way that does not seem right and then he starts to kiss her. He climbs on top of her and starts to kiss her neck and breasts. We are completely mortified, but we continue to watch as he begins to have sex with the young dead girl. My cousin accidentally bumps into something and knocks it over as we try to back away slowly and quietly. We turn in fear and run as quickly as can to hide. We hide behind an old shed just in time, as the man comes out of his front door buckling his pants as he runs. He yells out to us, even though he does not know who we are, or where we are hiding. He shouts, “who is there?” When there is no response he says, “I know someone is there.” We are in plain view of him, and if we make a noise, he will know we are there. We put our hands over our mouthes so that he can not hear us breathing. He slowly turns and goes back into the house. As soon as it is safe, and we know he is not watching from his window, we run as fast as we can back to the safety of our house. We burst through the kitchen crying, and Colin is sitting at the table drinking tea. We are very excited to see him, and we run up and throw our arms around him at the same time. He is very happy to see us too, but he knows something is wrong, because we are all out of breath from running and crying. He asks what on earth happened to us, and we tell him everything that we saw. We are afraid that he will be upset with us for going near the house he told us to stay away from, but he just looks at us in disbelief. He asks us if we are ok, and if the man saw us. We tell him that we hid until we were safe, and then we ran home. He told us to never, under any circumstances go near that house or the man. Then we tell him that we both got accepted into university and we are going in the fall. He is very happy and says that he is going to throw us a dinner party. We are very excited so we go into town with out nanny to pick out dresses. When we get home, we get ready and when we come down to the party, all of our friends are there and so are our parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and other cousins. We are so excited to see them all. We all sit around drinking tea and talking. Very suddenly, they all say that they have to leave. They all get on a huge horse drawn carriage and leave. We are very sad again. I tell my cousin that I am going to sleep. We get ready for bed, and when we lay down, my cousin tells me to make sure that I set the alarm on my cell phone so we are not late for the South High Marathon Dance. I tell her that we do not even have time to go to sleep because it already started. I jump our of bed and start packing clothes to go to the dance. I am very worried because there is so much to do before the dance and I am missing it. I am throwing everything in a giant bag, but it all keeps disappearing. I try to pull the things back out of the bag, but I can’t find them. I decide to leave the bag behind, and I get in my car and drive to the high school. When I get there, I am sad because the dance is almost over. Once I get to the dance, I try to park my car but he breaks on my car are not working and I can’t make the car stay still. I leave it backed into a tree so it won’t roll anywhere. I get out of the car and realize that I forgot my bulldog at my moms house and he is the school mascot. I get back into my car to pick him up. When I get to my mothers house everyone is crying. They tell me that our dog, whose name is Bogo, got bit by a stray cat and he has rabies. I start crying because I know they are going to put Bogo to sleep. I lie on the floor with him, and snuggle with him before they bring him to the vet. He is sad and he looks at me with his big eyes and then he starts crying too. My mom puts him in the car to take him to the vets, and then I wake up.
The Flood April 14, 2011
I am at work in the hospital. There is some extinction level event that is occurring; I am not sure what it is, but I am sure that there is very little hope for survival. Everyone is in a panic and they are all leaving as quickly as possible to be at home with their loved ones, where some think they can try to find some shelter. I keep trying to get in touch with my mother and my boyfriend but all the land lines are down and no one can get through on cell phones either. I am trying to get out of the hospital but all the patients are afraid and they keep asking for help. I feel really bad because everyone is abandoning them and they can’t leave. There is a radical group of extremists uniting from all over the world who are attempting to set traps for people as a way of leaving messages for future generations who survive the event. Their thought is that they can use the traps as a way to influence them when they chose to organize and form governments. They set a trap up in the hospital so that a few minutes before the event happens, the hospital locks down and floods and anyone left inside will drown. They think they are being humane in drowning the patients because they will not feel abandoned and scared when the event occurs, and they won’t be left to starve to death for weeks afterward in the event that they survive whatever is going to happen, because there will be no one left to take care of them. I run into a PA that I know really well in the hospital, and he asks me to help him move a critical patient. I tell him that I have to leave now, or I will not make it home in time to see my family. I ask him if he is aware that people are in the process of locking down the hospital and they are going to flood it. He says he knows but that is why I have to help him because he is trying to move the patients to safety. I tell him that I really can’t help him because I have to leave. He tells me that one of the people responsible for locking down the hospital left one door to the roof open and they told him about it so he could get out. He says we can climb down the fire ladders on the roof and get out before the hospital floods. I want to leave, but I stay to help him. We are moving the most critical patients to a big room where he says they will be safe from the flood. He also assures me that it is the safest place for them when the awful thing happens, and hopefully some of them will get better enough to get out of bed and help the others if there are any survivors. He is talking to a techy device on his wrist that looks like a blackberry/watch. He says he is in contact with a friend who is a doctor in Europe who is doing the same thing for his patients in his hospital. The PA I am with warns the doctor in Europe about the radical group of people who are setting traps and tells him what they have set up in our hospital. The doctor is Europe reminds us to set all the IV pumps to wide open and to piggyback all the patients drugs for a few days in the hopes that they will survive with no one there to help them. We finish moving all the patients that are left, which are mostly critical patients because all the other patients got up and left when all the nurses and doctors started leaving. I tell the PA that I am going to leave and ask him which way to go. He says to follow him because he is leaving too. We are on 4w of the hospital which is the surgical floor. We leave the patient area and start walking through the surgical suits. There is a doorway open to a stairwell that I have used many times before, but there is a hatch that I have never seen. The hatch is open and I can see the sun outside and it is a gorgeous sunny day. I feel very calm for a few minutes thinking of how happy I will be when the sun hits my face. All of a sudden the hatch closes and an alarm stars going off. I tell him that we are too late and they are going to start flooding the hospital with us inside. He tells me that he knows another way out, so we start running back from where we came. Big steel bars start coming down on all the exits and I am starting to get really panicked. We are running as fast as we can to try to make it to the exits that we know are not blocked but all of a sudden I am moving very slow. I try to move faster; as fast as I can, but somehow I am moving slower. It is as if I am running in waist-high water even though I am not. As we are running to the last exit of the building, big steel bars com crashing down, and we are stuck inside. I start crying and saying that I need to get out so I can be with my family when the world ends. He says that he is sorry and that we are going to die in the hospital when if floods. I get really panicked and start banging on the walls. All the patients start to wake up and ask what is going on. We don’t know what to tell them so we say that the hospital had to get evacuated and they were safe for now. The PA tells me that he thinks that we may be able to get to the roof from the ventilation system that runs in the ceiling throughout the entire hospital. I tell him that the new tower in the hospital has the new ventilation system but we are in the old part of the hospital and we will never fit through the vents. He says I am right and we start to make our way to the tower. We climb the stairs to get to the tower and once we are there, the PA finds where the ventilation system starts and we use chairs to climb into it. We are climbing through the vents when another alarm goes off and the hospital starts to flood. I feel this wave of terror wash over me and then the vents fill with rushing water, and I wake up.
October 3, 2010 October 4, 2010
I am out with some friends at the mall. We are just walking around and casually shopping. I see my friend who is pregnant and we wave to each other. I walk over to say hi and we start talking. She says she doesn’t feel good and then her water breaks. I ask her where her husband is and she tells me that he dropped her off and she was going to meet some friends. I tell her I will drive her to the hospital but I have to tell the people I came with first. I look everywhere for my friends but I can not find them. I start to panic because I know my friend needs to get to the hospital, but for some reason I know I can’t leave until I find them. Finally I decide to leave and bring my friend to the hospital. On the way there, she says she is really uncomfortable and she needs to work on her breathing, so I help her concentrate on her breathing. We get to the hospital and her husband is there. They go up to the snuggery and I tell them I have to go to work and I will see them later and good luck. I drive to the Great Escape but it is not where it usually is. For some reason they moved the park, and its in the Adirondacks. I go to punch in a get my assignment and my boss tells me that I have to go to funnel cakes for the day. I punch in and ask where funnel cakes is because I do not know now that everything has been moved. They tell me I have to hike one the 46 high peaks to get to the stand. I start hiking the mountain to get to the stand, but I get really nervous because I am all by myself and I forgot to bring water. When I get to the top some of my friends are there and we start talking. One of the girls I am working with tells me that we are all out of funnel cake mix, so my friend and I go to the store to get some. When we get to the store, my other friend is there and she tells me that the hospital sent her home because it was not time to have the baby yet. We start talking and walking around the store and then suddenly she says that it is time again. We rush to find her husband. We find him and they leave to go to the hospital again. Then I wake up.
March 1, 2008 September 1, 2010
I am on a stage with a bunch of people. Some of the people I know, and some of them I do not. My friend walks over to me and asks me if I have memorized my lines for the show. I tell her I am not sure what my part is. A very attractive man about our age walks up to us and my friend introduces him. She tells me to smell his neck, so I do and he smells like pine and musk. I tell him he smells really good and he says, “Thanks, I just made this cologne yesterday”. We all start heading off the stage to get on a bus. I ask the boy sitting behind me where we are going and he tells me we are going on a long trip and I was supposed to bring food and water. I look around and notice that everyone is prepared except for me. I asked them to wait for me while I ran to the store because no one wanted to share with me. As I get off the bus, I turn around, and realize that it is not a bus but a space ship. I see a group of people throwing water and garbage at this kid in the distance. I start running toward them and realize they are making fun of a little boy because he peed his pants. I get really upset and start yelling at all of them to go away. I ask the boy who he is here with but he doesn’t say anything to me; he points behind me to a man who is running up behind me. The man has huge muscles, and long hair that is in little tiny braids and pulled back. He has scars all over his face but he is not disfigured from it. He is wearing a futuristic outfit like something from Star Trek. He grabs my hand and tells me that we have to leave now because there is no time. I ask what he is talking about, but he does not answer me, he just grabs my hand and pulls me along. We pass by a space store and I tell him that I don’t have anything for the trip. He says there is no time, but there is a Snapple machine, and I am so thirsty. I really want to buy it but I forgot all my money and the man is yelling at me to hurry. I ask if it is ok to use the bathroom at least before we leave. He points to a door and follows me in. When we walk in, it is a large old-fashioned Victorian bathroom and when I look out the window, I can see the ocean, but I am seeing it from space. A ship flies by us and the man gets upset because we missed our ship. I tell him it is ok, there will be another one. Then we see a bunch of difference ships fly after the one we are supposed to be on. They chase it for a minute and then one ships fires and hits it. It explodes right in front of us. The man says, “That is it, we lost”. He takes out a syringe and puts it in his neck. He falls to the floor and I wake up.
December 17, 2006 August 31, 2010
I am staying at a hotel every night because I don’t have anywhere else to go. Every time I go to check into the hotel, the guy at the counter acts really weird. Every night I have to stay in a different room because someone is chasing me. Tonight, when I go to check in, I notice the guy at the counter takes two keys down from the ring; he hands me one and slips one under a rug when he thinks I am not looking. Instead of going to my room, I walk out to my car, which was outside, and drive over to where my room is. I sit in my car and watch a man walk into my hotel room. I drive away and go to my friend Missa’s house and pick her up. We go to a playground and start swinging on the swings. I have a Dunkin Donuts headset on and I can hear people placing orders but I am not taking them because I don’t have any coffee to give them. Missa and I are just swinging and talking when these zombie monsters run out of the woods right next to us and we have to run for lives back to the car. We decide to drive to California, but we can’t because the road is all blocked off. There is a big sign that says that this huge philanthropist named Gavin Tavern is setting up bath tubs in Crandall Park for homeless people to come and get clean. We go to the park and there are tons of bathtubs set up with hot steamy water and nice fluffy towels. There are a bunch of homeless people there, standing in line to take a bath and the ones that are taking a bath are having tons of fun sliding into the bath tubs on these huge slides. There is a huge sign that says “Cleaning up the Community by Lending a Helping Hand” and Missa and I realize that this Gavin guy isn’t really trying to help the homeless; he is just trying to make himself look good because he didn’t even give them soap. Missa and I are really mad, so we go to the store and buy tons of bubble bath and shampoo. We go back to the park and give it the homeless people waiting in line for the baths and they are very happy. Then I wake up.
June 20, 2007 August 30, 2010
My brother Ange and I are heading to school to study for our finals. I keep yelling at him to turn the music down so I can concentrate. When we get to the school , we go to the computer lab. I have to study for my physics regents so I don’t make the wall of shame. The computer lab is full of students and there are no computers left. My old Earth Science teacher is there with a bunch of students and he asks me to bring him a cucumber from his subway sandwich on the table. I bring him a piece of cucumber and he thanks me. Then I wake up.
January 27, 2007 August 30, 2010
I am in this big house with a lot of people. We are sitting in a big circle hanging out and drinking and smoking and chillin. The house is really big and old and creepy, and I am not sure exactly where we are. I am talking to this guy I have never met before and he turns into a giant cockroach. I scream and run down the hall. There is a big door but I need like 250 coins to open it so I start putting money into a giant money changer. Coins start pouring out all over the place and I start scooping them up in giant handfuls and feeding them into the door so the bug boy won’t come and get me. I open the door and walk through it and I am NYC at night time. Carrie and Charlotte from Sex and the City are there and they say they have been waiting for me. We sit at a table outside at this little bistro and the waitress comes over to take our order. There are candles everywhere and I can not see beyond the little fenced in area of tables. While we are waiting for our food to come, we obviously start talking about sex. They ask how things are going with my new boyfriend and I tell them all about him. There are some guys at a table near ours, and they hear us talking and come over and offer to buy our dinner. We say no thanks and leave. We are walking around NYC in the dark and its very hard to see. We stop for ice cream at a little shop and Carrie screams that I am late for work. I drop my ice cream and start running. I get on a bus and go out to the movie set I am working on. It is a scary movie staring Angelina Joli and I am her assistant or something. She has all these costume changes and it takes a long time to do her hair. She has this tarantula and I am in charge of it when she is not on set. We finish shooting for the day and she starts to hand me the spider but I don’t want to touch it. I take it from her and it feels spiky and horrible. It starts squirming around so I throw it on the ground and it dries up and dies. Then I wake up.
