Dreams

I wake one morning aware that I had a weird dream, but unable to recall what it was. I don’t bother trying to scour my brain for it because I am exhausted and need to get ready for work. But as I stand in the shower sudsing my belly, it all comes rushing back. I had impregnated my […]

In my dream, I’m climbing a mountain range with my family. We stop hiking to watch a team of wild horses gallop down the mountainside straight toward us. I panic, but my mother scolds me because this is part of a show I am suddenly partaking in. We duck down and allow the stampede of blindfolded horses to […]

In my dream, I was at Red Balloon Bookshop for an authors’ signing, similar to the one I attended with Alison Goodman, Alwyn Hamilton, Rachel Hawkins, Sabaa Tahir, April Genevieve Tucholke, and Karen Bao. It was rather enjoyable until my mom was invited up on the stage (Pfft, as if she’d deign to go to a book […]

What does it mean when you dream of incestuous, necrophilic humming birds? It means you’ve left the window open again and the nest of hatchlings outside are making an ungodly racket. Which begs the question, do humming birds actually chirp? I’ve never heard one. In my dream, I was back in high school again, searching desperately for a toilet, which, […]

My friends dream of their teeth falling out, of their cars being stolen, of them going through their daily routine…and then waking up only to actually go through their daily routine. I have those mundane dreams too. Sometimes. But usually…I have dreams where I’m pregnant and the baby is writhing and screaming inside me, where […]