We I.D.

Mr. Keith - apush teacher
Alex Salazar - high school friend/teammate

I was in high school again and I was on the tennis team. Mr. Keith was my coach and Alex Salazar was my doubles partner. I took a really long time in the locker room before the game.
I wasn't a normal human being, I was a fairy or something. Every normal person had an ID tag tattooed on their wrist, and I didn't have one so people could tell I was a fairy. I was with Theo and I wanted to go into a store with him. The moment I walked inside a bunch of alarms started going off and I had to leave. Apparently we weren't granted the same rights as normal humans. I was also not allowed to buy clothes, so I was dressed in a lot of random rags that I had assembled and I wore big sunglasses so people wouldn't know who I was, and my hair was all fluffy and stuck out everywhere. There was a movie playing in the store that I wanted to see with Theo, so I somehow managed to get inside and sit down. The movie started to play, and I thought that maybe I had gotten away with it, but then I saw some employees standing in a corner making a list and looking up at me every so often. I tried to keep my head down so they couldn't see me. One of them walked up to me and said, "you're Carla Jennings aren't you?". I said "no, actually I'm not", but I knew that they had figured out I wasn't a human either way, so I got up and started to leave. Theo came with me and as I was walking out I turned to the woman and called her a few choice words, while Theo held me back and continued to lead me out of the store. When we got outside we both started complaining about how unfair the whole thing was. I told Theo he could go back inside and watch the rest of the movie, and he decided to. After he left I kind of regretted telling him that because now I would have to walk home through the woods alone. But being a fairy or whatever I was gave me the power to fly. I pushed off from the ground and rose over the trees. It was nighttime and the sky was perfectly clear. I sang to myself as I flew. After a little while I looked down and noticed a girl following me. I pushed up a little higher into the air to keep some distance, but it was hard to maintain that altitude. I looked to the left of me and saw a big glowing orb about 50 yards away. It was smokey or misty looking and just kind of hovered there. Then it shot toward me and went right underneath me. The girl and I were both really confused. It turned around and positioned itself directly in front of me. I got the impression it was trying to hurt me.
My dad was getting married again, and my mom was going to get married the day after that. The whole family had been spending a lot of time preparing and I was getting tired of thinking about weddings. There was something about a witch that had put a spell on my dad, and he had to eat graham crackers to keep from falling asleep. I showed up to the place where one of my parents was supposed to get married. I was wearing a nice dress and shoes and had my hair all done, but I had gotten all dressed up like that a couple days ago and had been preoccupied with the witch thing and I was sort of falling apart now. The place they were getting married was a French resort, and there were little birds hopping around and music playing. The quaintness of it was kind of nauseating. I sat in line with some other women and we talked about how I could fix my hair.

New Girlfriend, New Chorus, New Hairdo

Theo - ex, friend
Daniel - friend at SC
Chris - highschool friend
Nadiah - childhood friend

Theo had gotten a new girlfriend. I think she was some blonde girl named Allison. I was really not taking the whole situation well and I couldn't stand being in the same room with her or seeing them together. I was sitting in someone's kitchen trying to do something and the girlfriend walked over and was being very friendly and trying to talk to me. I basically just grunted responses and rolled my eyes a lot. Theo came in and I asked him if he could help me with my chemistry homework later. He said sure, and then walked over and put his arm around the girlfriend. I felt like he would probably forget because he was going to be with her. I told him to make sure he remembered and he said he would. I left the room as fast as possible.
I ran into Daniel later and he tried to warn me about Theo's new girlfriend. I told him I already knew and that it was okay.
I was wearing a pretty white dress and lacey gloves.
I shaved my head again and was having some regrets. I kept saying "oh my god why did I do that", but at the same time I was kind of enjoying it and I kept running my fingers through what little hair I had. I went to an audition for a chorus. Everyone in the room took a turn singing something for the conductor. All the people there had excellent voices, and some of them sang opera. I had a friend, a random black girl that sang right before me and did alright. I was the last person to go and I was insanely nervous. I couldn't get my lips to move the right way, and as a result my singing sounded kind of muffled. But I took deep breaths and did the best I could and the song came out okay (I sang "Do Re Me" from the Sound of Music). The teacher loved it and said that it was great.
Chris had auditioned as well and we left the chorus together. We walked outside and the beach was only a few hundred yards away, and the beach was covered in grasses that had turned gold because of the winter. The sun was setting too and the waves were gigantic. I said "we live in the most beautiful place in the world". We started walking toward the ocean, but the waves were so big that the water was already coming up to us where we were. Nadiah was with us now, and a giant wave came. She had her back to it so it knocked her over and she got completely wet, which Chris and I thought was very funny. We stood in the water and talked about the sand moving around our feet.

Scary Face

Mark - kid at teen center
Shayna/Skylar/Pika - friends at SC

I was with my sisters driving the Jetta around East side Santa Cruz. The car was able to split into two separate drivable halves, and Mattie had disappeared with one of them. I drove around with Sam trying to find her. I was having a hard time seeing, and for some reason the roads were all giant hills. We eventually found Mattie and I was really pissed at her. I grabbed her arm and yelled right in her face. I had been really worried about her, and I wanted her to know that what she did wasn't okay.
I had a meal plan for the dining hall that was somehow monitored through the teen center. I went to the teen center to go in t he dining hall, and my boss wouldn't let me in. I knew I had 20 or so meals left, so I didn't understand what the problem was. My boss told me that they were the wrong kind or something like that. I thought that was total bullshit and got really upset. Mark tried to comfort me.
I was riding my bike around Santa Cruz. I stopped at a random store that sold really nice vintage clothing. I couldn't decide whether to leave my bike at the front of the store or if I should lock it up somewhere. I compromised by locking it to a clothing wrack inside. I walked around the store looking at all the nice dresses, as the lady who owned the place followed me around telling me about every dress that I touched. I didn't have the intention of buying anything. I got to the back of the store and they had pictures of different tattoos all over the wall. I started talking to the owner about the pricing on their tattoos, and asked if they had any artists who did ladybugs.
I was riding my bike through some dark mountain road in an unfamiliar part of Santa Cruz. Shayna was eventually with me, and eventually we were walking. It was nighttime now, and we were on a dirt road that was covered in trees at random intervals. Each time we came to a clump of trees, we could see something spelled out in its branches. The first clump we came to had something pleasant written on it. We walked farther and farther, and by the time we got to the next clump of trees Shayna felt like we were lost. This clump of trees spelled out the words "scary face". In the dream that was frightening.
I was in a big house with random people. I had sex with a guy that had two penises. Once that was over I was walking around the house with Skylar, and apparently this was his mansion. We were standing outside talking, enjoying the view of the forest around us. I looked up and saw that one of the balconies was on fire. I then heard Pika scream and everyone in the house was running around in a panic. The whole house started to go up in flames, and someone said their was a rocket heading straight for the house. Skylar and some other people ran toward one side of the house to get away from where the impact was supposed to be. I felt like it was going to be coming from the opposite direction so I went the other way. We saw the rocket approaching, and it was headed for the other group of people. Skylar turned to me and said "well, you were right", then the house exploded.

The American Dream

Sam/Mattie - sisters
Brian/D.C. - kids at teen center

I was staying at my grandma's house with my family, but she lived in some strange place I didn't recognize. My family upset me for some reason and I decided to run away. I took the screen off one of the windows in the room I was staying in and climbed outside. Earlier Sam and I had locked our bikes somewhere in the city so I started running to get mine. I ran pretty far, and when I got to the spot the bikes were missing. I decided to just forget about the whole plan and go back to my grandma's. When I got there I looked to see if I had actually brought the bike there, and I had, then I felt really stupid.
I went to the grocery store with my family (my mom and my dad were still married). We got in line with all of our stuff, and we had multiple shopping carts full of groceries. I was really angry that my parents thought we needed so much stuff. Standing in the line with all of that stuff was a pain too because I would have to walk down the line of carts and push them all forward every few minutes. Sam and Mattie kept grabbing more stuff and bringing it back. Sam dropped a juice container on the floor and it rolled into another customer's feet.
I had a view of a random family driving somewhere for vacation. They had so much stuff with them that they were bringing multiple cars, all liked by a chain. The dad was driving the front car, which was one of those big trucks that shreds up trees. The mom was driving the one behind that, and the kids were in the one behind her. The tree-shredder thing got turned on somehow, and was now spitting shreds out the back of the truck at the mom. Her car was slowly being filled up with grass and she was yelling at her husband to turn it off, and the kids kept yelling "you're killing mom" over and over. The dad was lying down in his truck not really paying attention to anything, and didn't hear any of them.
My mom decided to take a trip to New Zealand and I went with her. I brought her to the beautiful beach we stayed next to in Warkworth. I wanted to take her down there, but the tide was too high so there wasn't any space to walk.
I was walking down the street with Brian and D.C. D.C. was going to paint something, and we were trying to help him decide what he should paint.

Skateboard

I was with my Dad at a strange park on the side of the road in Irvine. He had a skateboard that he really loved and someone stole it. I went to go get it and apparently I succeded. I was riding back on it and was able to go really fast and I was riding well. I realized that skateboarding is all about confidence and not worrying about the ground. I got back to the park my Dad was at and my Grandpa was with him now too. I saw my Grandpa wave at me and smile. I beamed at them both as I rode back, feeling like a hero. I got there and handed my dad the skateboard. He got mad at me because it wasn't the right one. I told him that his must still be at the park somewhere. I spotted it lying in the grass a few yards away. My dad picked it up and we got into a truck and drove away.

Carlie the Zombie

Brian, D.C. - kids from the teen center
Felton - rural/forest town north of santa cruz

I was with Brian and D.C. at some kind of public pool or resort. We were hanging out having a good time.
I was at the teen center. I kind of fell/jumped off one of the balconies but I was alright. No one seemed alarmed about it.
I had gotten bit by a zombie a little while ago and I was starting to feel the effects. I was getting dizzy and it was hard to control my body. It felt kind of like I was falling asleep mixed with waking up the next morning and still being drunk. I knew a woman in Felton who was supposed to drive me to a place where someone could cure me. I called her house, but she wasn't home yet, so I spoke to her husband for a while. He was rather rude to me considering my condition, but he told me what I could do. He started to give me directions so I could drive out to Felton but I realized there was no way I was going to be able to drive. I asked if the woman could pick me up.

Lost In New York

I was with a friend trying to drive through New York to get to the airport so I could fly home. My dad gave me directions but I misplaced them, so I was reading signs as I drove by them and waiting to see one that sounded familiar. We went further and further down the freeway and I still didn't recognize anything. All along the freeway there were bus stops, and some of them went to an airport in Indiana, where I had a layover. I pulled over a couple times to look for the directions, and the people at the bus stops kept telling me to just take the bus to the airport. For some reason I really didn't want to do that, and I was getting really irritated with people suggesting that. I had my laptop with me and checked to see if I had saved the directions as a word file. I was having a really difficult time using the computer, and there were so many other files open that I couldn't get enough of them closed to see the word file. I looked through my cell phone to see if I had it saved in a message. I tried calling my dad a few times and for some reason he wouldn't pick up his phone. There was some kind of accident on the road, and I just decided to turn around and try going back the other way. When I tried to go in reverse the friend I was with pointed out that there was a line of those do-not-back-up spikes behind us. At this point I was so frustrated I started crying, and somehow picked up the car and moved it around the spikes.
For some reason I was now in a car with two random guys. They were driving really fast so I couldn't read the freeway signs to find my exit. I asked them to slow down and they said no.
I was back stopped in front of one of the freeway bus stops with my own car, and I saw my aunt getting on to a bus. I decided I didn't want to say hello to her. I finally got a hold of my dad on the phone, and I told him in tears that I couldn't figure out where I was going. He laughed at me and told me it wasn't that big of a deal. This really upset me. I felt very alone and like I was going to be stuck out there forever.