Stranded in a Dream
I was trying to understand a grammar point, so I typed in “being stranded” and one of the suggestions of the search engine was “being stranded in a dream”. I don’t know about you, but to me this is one of those things that when you hear, it takes you away. I don’t know where it took me, but it made me want to write again. Well, it gave me something to write about is more like it. When I hear the word “stranded”, I immediately think of an island. A castaway… An annoying monkey throwing coconuts at you up from a palm tree… and a host of other tropical/exotic things. When you’re stranded on an island, there are physical barriers. Water all around you… All you need is a raft and a good wind. But when you’re stranded in a dream… what do you do? How do you get out? ... I was looking out the window. I watched the cars pass by down on the main road. Half of the cars were going to the right, and the other half to the left. I wondered, these people see each other. That guy over ther...