a la Friday Fictioneers – everybody should give it a go! Thank you Rochelle Wisoff-Fields for keeping us prompted…
The Direction of Dreams
My son says he always dreams the same house, strangely enough. Except with a spiral staircase. The cartoon girl runs jerkily past. Perhaps she trips, perhaps there’s a dog in the way, perhaps a lady walking with a stroller. He doesn’t know the house, he says, but it’s always the same house. With a spiral staircase, but not a cartoon girl. I know she’s running though, in fits and starts, with urgency. Something depends on her speed. There’s a trying to get somewhere, in any direction. And direction needs a context. Something about dreams, spirals and speed.
N Filbert 2013
Polysemic Stupor 
I have noticed a change in your voice, lately….”dreams, spirals and speed” ..captures the hurried feeling of dreams at the point where panic is creeping in and waking are meeting.
Tom
pro- or con-? thanks for reading so genuinely.
a good movement that spirals with the photo and the dream always needs a spiral staircase / well done
thank you
There are aspects of both that I like. The change seemed to happen after the prompt of the plane and became more apparent after the statue prompt…Am I wrong? Was this intentional?
Tom
I would have to go back and examine them with a keener eye/ear/mind! I can say that as far as I am aware change has not been intentional. If we are able, in any way, to observe ourselves, I would theorize that the deeper I am in researching work the more I tend to utilize fiction as a challenge to embodiment or to a more comprehensive experience of creation, hopefully a touch less conditioned by traditional forms of rationality. I don’t know if this relates to the changes you have noticed or not? When I’m not heavily into theories (immediately), I often utilize fiction as the space to explore more fervent abstraction – in other words, my stance in regards to fiction-making is often an attempt to balance or fulfill my immediate wholistic felt needs? Does this shed any light at all? (Is there anything to shed light on!?)
An original take on the photo prompt. You wrote it hazy like dreams. I enjoyed.
Your story has a dreamy kind of feel for it. It worked well here. The spiral is kind of dizzying.
I like the idea of dreaming the same house each time. My dreams are so not like that! Though often they feature the same people.
Yes it does, you write from the heart and there was nothing deliberate about your change in style. Your answer affirms the many voices inside you.
Tom
This definitely has the feel of a dream–some things that make sense, others that don’t, a sense of real unreality, of being caught. I think your writing for FF has become more story-like and comprehensible yet still a bit enigmatic with less of I will call for lack of a better phrase, a stream of consciousness. I think that it’s a good change.
janet
that’s nice to hear, thank you
The quick words are like delicious bites – they come with speed, darting about like fish, sometimes swimming in different directions, sometimes joining into a sentence and from there a thrilling thought!
thank you much
Dear Mr. Filbert,
You have a way with words.
Aloha,
doug
I like the feeling here of your story with the photo… the sense of not exactly sure of what’s going on, but offering just enough to get a sense of the dream and wonder about more.
thank you
very kind Doug. it’s a deep desire and you’ve encouraged that (for better or worse)
Te deseo una magnífica semana.
Un abrazo
Very well done. I found myself trying to figure out what was going on with her and why and then remembered, this is a Friday Fictioneers story. Pulled me right in, dreamworld, analysis and all!
thank you
Dear N,
Nice vivid picture of cartoon girl. I can see her running up those spiral stairs.
shalom,
Rochelle
I love the dream-like nature of this piece. It doesn’t make a lot of sense, but that’s what makes it so compelling.