I am a white police officer forced by government agents to order the arrest of eight Indigenous men for possession of tobacco in a church where they are...
I am sleeping in a low arm chair facing the cluttered kitchen counter and I dream of a glimpse of a mouse. I wake up and there's a real mouse, a big fat...
I am walking over snow plow drifts in an old Toronto neighbourhood, blowing things up with a fire cracker gun. The goal is to hit a snow bank, exploding...
Surprised to see brother, D, with Tr, on some sort of ad hoc committee at the Union Hall. I was just looking for a bathroom. Walking through the members...
I lifted one of my turtles out of the tank but he grabbed into the rock with his big back flipper. I pulled harder, not too hard, and his flipper tore o...
I am trying to spell Solzhenitsyn, and laughing because I can never do it. It's his birthday, same year as my father's, so he's especially dear to me. ...
My adult kids and I are visiting my old friend, E, at her cottage at the end of the winter. We are going for a swim, talking about how the scuba gear wi...
Cleaning up the chesterfield my son, B, uses as a bed as our house is way too small. Tiny Lego bricks, video games, linens. B comes in suspicious and I ...
I visit my 2-year-old son, B, in his Foster Home. Not sure why I gave him to the home but I miss him. They bring him for a quick visit. He is very quiet...
Greg S is getting a job here as a caretaker. So happy I will see him again after so many years. It's morning and I awake from a dream about it. G and J ...
RJ is coming to visit. (Rarely "grandpa", just "RJ".) I am worried he will judge our garden, a little behind now, with a row of veggies and a row of pum...
Night Time. I have to give a speech at the Hall. I was going to wing it, like always. I don't even know these people. Benefactors and local politicians,...
John H (KK), Elizabeth W, Laura T and I are sharing a cab to a meeting at the W Centre for the Division. I agree to pay the driver. He is French. The bi...
A pale lemon snake is sliding up the wall by the bed post, maybe cigar thick, 2 feet long. Steady, but not too fast. I step back. D wants to take it to ...
There is an all-day LEC meeting with Finance Staff from the Big House. I am attending virtually from home. I hear "10% Solution" from Pat H and worry we...
It is so hot, all the kids in the neighbourhood are sleeping outside in cars on the street. I don't want to sleep in a car. G and I take the chesterfiel...
I have to return the old fashioned popcorn machine that we rented from the store at the country fair. They tell me I can buy it for $25 on top of the re...
Downtown for work, pushing a baby carriage through the maze of lobbies, highrises, malls, doors, antechambers and vestibules. No need to ever go outside...
Not enough space between the desks in this classroom. Tripping around to get through. Most of the students much younger except one woman who stares like...
Found an old movie projector from the 70's while cleaning out my patents' house. It was in a large, white, rectangular, wooden box. Too heavy to carry, ...
X and I meet with C&J to try and settle the backlog of grievances. The first they bring up is GC's omnibus discipline letter for poor performance. They ...
It was so sweet, the young squirrel. Didn't bite. Would embrace my finger tight in its hands. I know wild animals can't be pets, but this little fellow ...
Leaving the University to go to work with Ernest and his friend. We have to pick up some equipment including a hinged, white wooden box, 5x2x1. Opened, ...
The Committee is so dysfunctional. They call a meeting at Basques Coffee House near the subway. The Chair and past Chair are not here. I have to sign a ...
Long, narrow, dark room. Lots of beds. Like a THill party cottage but with a Brant Ave end-of-times interior atmosphere. Gathering up the children for b...
MsrkM (dead) wants JenY to do a newsletter for the department. He puts Prof PeterA in charge, who is not interested. The young Prof beside him in the bu...
MsrkM (dead) wants JenY to do a newsletter for the dept. Putting Prof PeterA in charge, who is not interested. Young Prof beside him in the bull pin tol...
The boss, this very sour, blond lady passively aggresses me about the printer ink that arrived by mistake and is now needed back, two bottles, white and...
A horde of medieval, axe-wielding soldiers has breached the back doors of the school. I run the other way, stopping in the cloak room where visitors are...
It's Family Day at the School and I am making a big poster of activities and times for the kids who will be visiting. MO and ML are in the Camera shelve...
Crossing the grounds of the University, I leap behind a dumpster to hide. There is a small child also hiding, a girl, perhaps 6 or 7. A tiny bird lands ...
G is offered a mysterious delivery job by criminal elements to a grand hotel back in time, the 40's, gangsters in suits, old ladies in box hats, spy vs ...
Tuesday afternoon. Mom is leaving on vacation. I come home early to help with some older ladies from work, manager types, all standing in the front hall...
Started a new office job, at a desk in an open room. Friday afternoon. I am moving a wheely chair around in big wide sweeps, in and out of spaces betwee...
"Does a Crow plan? Does a Wolf plan?" A sudden deep genderless voice from an omnicient narrator or an elder, more for my guest than me. We are twistin...
I noticed first the silence as it emerged, glided, from the woods of the gully up along the fence of the neighbour's back yard towards the side of the h...
They are selling the big black house where we've made so many horror movies. Strangers have come to look through our rooms and things and to gawk at us....
He's putting makeup all over my face as I wake up: pale foundation, blue shades of eye shadows, eye brow sculpter. I don't wear makeup. It's so creepy ...
TLC leans in close and giddy as I'm sitting in the boss's reception area. "Lend me a smoke. I'm just dying for a smoke right now." Lib Jane watches with...
"You're fat," he mutters under his breath. Then, with more restraint, "You've really rounded out!" Then, to himself, "Doh! Why did you say that?!!!" I ...
"Gad! What a day I've had!" HR Jane complains. "We have to report to the government on all harassment cases and identify which incidents were first time...
My daughter J's dog runs away while we are carrying groceries back to the car at the University. I have our old dog on a leash but J let go of her's. I ...
The woman dressed in 40's skirt, jacket and hat says, "I want the truth!" The surly detective sneers. "You want to TRY the Truth? Or you want to return...
"Start with the Dining Room so we can get an idea about your personality and style." Interesting. I look at the long dark table of dishes and decor to c...
G, me and are kids as babies are off to get vaccines and then a show. The Ice Capades are in Town and it's free. My new boyfriend, who seems really gent...
Mom is hunched over in her chair, watching me check the lights she gave me for Christmas before putting them up. They are little elfs on a string like t...
Carol won't answer her fucking phone and it keeps ringing. Hate her. Laziest worker in the whole joint, somehow manager of nothing, and her phone just k...
Shouts of glee from the basement floor and looking closer, a man and child spinning on a thread around the tiniest sewing needle in a perfect pirouette....
Messy Kids House Dreamscape. Toys and clutter on every surface. The youngest Boy, Kevin, wants to take Judo again so I demand "Get out of bed!" But he w...
G has a clear plastic kitchen garbage bag filled loosely with ice cubes. He is securing it around his stomach, tucking it into his work pants, tugging h...
Walking home from the bus after work and T offers me a ride, my youngest daughter's work mentor. My oldest daughter is in his car so I agree. But he dri...
I am in a dreamscape of tall, black townhouses with pointy roofs. It is night and the stars are out. My Dad has rearranged the furniture in the great ro...
Adrian at a meeting asked me to wash his favourite black shoes. They were slip ons, hard leather with shiny black stucco-like tops. I was a bit worried....
I'm setting up the old plant lights around my work desk. The desk is in a corner and behind me, a small bit of shag rug where JP watches from an armchai...
In a new Dream House: European old Town brownstone with wide windows letting city sites in. Feels simple and impersonal as a vacation cottage, but full ...
I am starting a new job making pillows. It's my 2nd day. I am picked up by a flying redneck who makes a stupid joke about someone on the ground being "a...
Entering the change rooms of the hotel pool in my favourite dreamscape hotel and conference centre. I am aware this one used to have an underground tunn...
Someone hands me my baby, all bundled like a newborn. I'm sitting in a rocking chair but I can't make him stop wailing so I walk with him and he stops r...
In the parking lot of a restaurant called "Hoops" - going for brunch with the kids and Sue. Looks like a wedding party and a woman, a stranger, has to g...
I need to be away 2 weeks and VP is babysitting my kids, including the baby and vicious Doberman/Sheppard mix who likes to run free a few times a day an...
John C is hosting a Climate Change conference for the usual labour activists. A man is talking to a film strip and I am falling asleep. I know it's a dr...
Howard has returned for a visit after many years and is holding court with winter coat-bundled students in a long, dark study room talking numbers and e...
We are at the corporate graveyard in the chalet just past the club house, preparing for a funeral service. A wall of windows overlooks the grounds from ...
The alarm goes off for different dogs at different schools. I hit the snooze each time. All of the dogs need arguments for their cases and Christine is ...
We moved into our new house (which is our current of 30+ years). I love it so much it is the house I dreamed of, the house of so many secret rooms. I'm...
The beautiful, young, shaggy Collie needs a lawyer. I am waiting outside for one, on the cool, dark green grass. The air is almost minty. Lots of peopl...
In the large stone townhouse, my mother's rooms are up a narrow, carpeted staircase, like a sound proofed tunnel. S unlocks the door and there is Sirius...
Will tells me I won the election. He just heard it on the radio. I am at work and wasn't paying attention to the results as I always lose. But name reco...
I wake up and PS the politician I knew back home when we were teens is in my house. I had been thinking of him but didn't reach out. How is he here in m...
My poetry professors pass a sword down to me, a marvelous thing, heavy, wide, a handle fit perfectly for my hand. A theatrical sword, not sharp of edge ...
I am riding my skateboard up a multi-lane highway but it's not going as fast as it should. Stops dead at the end of each ki k like it has no wheels, whi...
Everything is happening at the same time and I am too anxious to enjoy the fun parts. Adrian is helping me clean the turtle tank. Somehow, he is lying ...
Anna A tells me I have no friends. That I always find something wrong with each one and they last no more than a year. It's true. Maybe I'm just a loner...
I'm late for a new job teaching English Literature at College. The class takes place in a theatre built into an old heritage house in the parking lot of...
Anna A and I are swimming in the hotel pool, but it's really the ocean and there are sharks. I am more afraid of the swordfish. They are throwing red sp...
I am waiting for the elevator in a nice, conference hotel, my assigned mattress and bag on a hotel trolly, people partying all around me like students i...
Setting up a new AV Desk at work. Getting my job back from Mark. He's cleaning up equipment in the back. The office chair is filthy, crumbling foam. The...
Old friend, now retired, comes to the Centre to ask about his teeth. We're hosting volunteer art making for Parade. Lots of young workers. The man is sm...
I'm walking down my street late at night messing with other people's gardens again. I have two tasks: weeding and fertilizing. Got a knife and bucket in...
Three days now, there's a hampster in a small cage on the kitchen counter between the fridge and sink where I stack dishes to clean. There is nothing el...
Driving lost with Dwayne E riding shotgun, we see the turbulent waters through tall, pastel buildings and I know it is Lake Erie so Talbot Road must be ...
There is a land turtle and a large frog living in the basement, and some other kind of amphibious creature living in the pedestal of the upstairs bathro...
Poured the new hand soap into a bowl and was surprised to see big bubbles rising to fill it rim to rim. On closer look, the bubbles were tiny, thin, hol...
Worst party ever at my house. Old grumpy relatives complaining about the length of the slide show. I left that to G and he showed every plant picture he...
"I KNOW PEOPLE EXIST" she wrote in graffiti on the wooden panel below her window. Her father is showing her room to the interviewer, the room of the gir...
My white alarm clock, 80's style plastic stereo with rounded corners, on the very top shelf so high I can barely reach it from my bed, somehow reset ane...
A dream of trying to get somewhere but not getting there and the things I carried on the journey. Exam Week at the University and I am needed to cover t...
Upon entering the grand hotel, I find a lobby with two disheveled guards, like famous extras from a 30's comedy, perpetually drunken. One, possibly blon...
Brother D, his wife and I carry scuba gear into the basement. They have just come back in their jeep. In the laundry room, there are dirty clothes scatt...
I am with a friend, watching the family on the beach from a cliff edge above, a moving painting full of colours: surf boards, beach balls, picnic blanke...
The majestic lion has the Rhinosaurus's rump firmly in its jaws. And the Rhino has the Hyena's. The Hyena bites the Boa; and the Boa, the Zebra. The Zeb...
Friends are over, some kind of party. I am in the basement showing the turtles off to a mother and the young child in her arms when I notice something m...
The old ones who mentored me are meeting behind closed doors with the young ones I have mentored. I get to watch the video. So grateful just to see Te...
Convocation is at my house this year. I'm on the film crew with MO and AP. AP and I are sleeping in so we are well rested.l, but MO is nagging, worried ...
He is sitting on the bed bemoaning the loss of a shoebox full of money now that I want my apartment back, the one over the garage that he and his wife s...
I am so excited to be inside my dreamscape house, not just as a visitor but it's mine now. I can change things. Like the daybed in the upstairs bathro...
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