Carrot Ranch Flash Fiction Challenge. June 22, 2017 prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less) write a story that involves a dream. This action could have happened while awake, such as daydreaming, or make up a dream when asleep. Go where the prompt leads as it could be a nightmare or just fond memories or ambition.
This was the first “thought” that came to mind. I will probably try something more fictional as well.
©Sascha Darlington
Dream Crashers
You can’t keep dead people and dead dogs out of your dreams. They think they have a right to be there in all of their once alive glory. They laugh and hug or pant and bark and wag their tails and make you believe during your REM state that they are totally alive. For blissful moments, you believe, like it was yesterday, but the sepia tones should be a giveaway. When your dog wiggles her rear end and skips, your chest tightens as consciousness fights for witness: this is a dream and when I wake up, I will cry.
end 6/23/2017
Sascha Darlington
I love dogs and I love the way you portrayed loss and memories through dreams. Your expression leaves a lasting impression. Bittersweet and so very beautiful. 😙
Thank you so much, Sailaja. It’s been almost two years but I still horribly miss that dog.
😚😚😚😚😚
After a while you don’t cry and learn to enjoy the visits. After a while.
Thanks. After a while is very slow in coming, but I have hope. 🙂
I learned to be more lucid about it, at least with my dog, but oh yeah, it’s two decades now. I’m sharing a link to my site if you are interested in a real dream I had of a friend.
https://shiftnshake.wordpress.com/prompted-poetry/
I read it. Your poetry is very good. I couldn’t find a comment space to let you know…or else I’m more tired than I thought. 🙂
Thanks, I appreciate that.
I have the poetry on a page, that wasn’t a home page post, so you’re fine, there is no comment spot there. (I’m new to this and will maybe figure out a better way to organize, but that’s how Im doing it for now.)
Dreams are a manifestation of events/things that we dont utter but are deep in the crevices of brains. Your canine friend really never left you and hence appears in your dreams.
http://ideasolsi65.blogspot.in/2017/06/dream.html
Thank you. I like to think of her as around and not gone. 🙂
I look forward to dreams of Big Brown Dog despite the ache that arrives upon waking. You expressed the dream phenomenon that can be both a balm and a grief.
Thanks, Charli!