In the dream my boyfriend was trying to murder me, and as I stood poised by the slowly-opening door with a shard of glass in my hand, I realized that the entire thing could be forgotten if I would just wake up.
“Wake up,” I repeated in the dream. “Adrianne, you’re dreaming, wake up.”
I stirred in [...]
I wasn’t a fool. I went into this whole thing fully informed: you do not sing out of your range. Don’t even try. It’s not funny to sound bad, it’s just awkward — for everyone involved. Awkwardness and other people sounding bad had, in fact, been my main reasons behind avoiding karaoke for all these [...]
A friend and I have been corresponding about pursuing our various creative pursuits, and it was determined that we’d both reached that special place of uncertainty and self-doubt: we needed prompts.
He sent me three pictures of items in his apartment to inspire a short story, and I sent him three of mine to inspire some [...]
By the time we had decided to get a kitten, I had forgotten what kittens actually were. Or more accurately, what kittens weren’t: the fact that our kitten was not a jpeg really threw me off for a few days.
“Look at that!” I would exclaim. “He’s, like, movin’ around!”
We watched Jack move around for three [...]
The first time I mistakenly thought I was seeing my junior high science teacher years and miles from when he’d actually taught me science, I was in the comic book store in Pike Place Market. It was my sophomore year in college, and I had recently acquired an affinity for the new Cat Woman series. [...]