Dream Threads

"Rappel Upward on Dream Threads" by Joji

In a New Post on your own blog, try the following writing activity using the interesting sentences regarding dreams that you and your classmates came up with on Tuesday.  We'll call these sentences "dream threads," little bits that you've pulled from a bigger piece and that could be "woven" back together in interesting ways.

• Choose one of the sentences to begin your story.  You may use it word for word or alter it slightly if necessary.
• Choose another sentence to end your story.
• Fill in the space in between with a story connecting the two sentences. This will likely be fiction but it doesn't have to be.  It also doesn't need to be especially long and may only be a portion of a bigger, more complicated story--maybe 200 words or so--but it could be. It could also be a poem.
• Put the sentences you took from other people in bold or another color.
• Include at least one image.

Here's our list:

• The cold bit my legs as I sank further into the blue abyss.
• A few kids were there but I couldn’t see their faces.
• I was dancing by a gas lantern in the night autumn air.
• My life dream would be to have a college education, move to New York City, become a forensic scientist and make a group of best friends.
• I always daydream about completing a goal.
• I watch the cold shadows creep to me, I panic knowing what is to come, but still I can’t move.
• He was drunk and fell off the ledge that night to his death.
• I’ll make it to the US House of Representatives and run for President the year I turn 36.
• I tried to hide my smile as the memory on the roof with her and the telescope resurfaced.
• To put it simply, I was chased around Sesame Street by murderous Muppets.
• As more water filled the house, my chances of escape seemed less likely.
• I met a character of mine.
• I dream about futures with friends and happy memories.
• This course had fire and lasers and things to avoid.
• My dream is to go to the pig beach in the Bahamas.
• There was fear coursing through my veins, a mouth that gaped but no sound escaping, and I was unable to call for help when I needed it.
• We drove through downtown Springfield, but it wasn’t quite Springfield; it reminded me of the highways on the outskirts of Kansas City.
• She told me I was screaming/talking in my sleep, saying things like, “No” and “Stop.”
• My dream is to get a puppy for my birthday.
• He stood seven feet tall covered with mjolnir armor that shined like midnight; his visor was a blood red glow looking back into my soul.
• It was almost like a masquerade with everyone wearing a mask.
• My chest sank as my face turned a deep beet red, perspiring with sweat.