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 the body of the text, in fact); and then…  Well…  When you’re ready.

While the impossibility of describing anesthetic dreamscapes occupies the uneasy mind of an anonymous narrator, he is fortunate to have someone patiently waiting by his side for him to wade through the impenetrable metaphors that keep him from sustaining consciousness.

Download “Dream Transcription” (PDF)