In the shadow of our gracious host here at Mispeled, luke t. bergeron, I’m making available an old short story of mine entitled “Dream Transcription” that I hope is more enjoyable to read than I assume it to be.  One of my favorite authors wrote, “If you show someone something you’ve written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin and say, ‘When you’re ready.’”
So here’s a short description of the story (which incidentally is kind of important to the story… probably should have incorporated it into …

For most of my life I’ve been fascinated with Lego building blocks. I love the idea that they are a strangely modern art form – small manufactured pieces assembled together in a billion different ways to create microcosms of culture. There’s something so powerful in that idea that I can’t quite wrap my mind around it.
I’ve collected Legos on and off since I was a kid, castles mostly, although I dabbled in the town, space, and pirate themes a little. When I was a kid my favorite thing to do …

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