Careful what you dream it may come true
Tonight was my ballet school's annual concert. A couple of nights ago, I was lying in bed, not quite asleep but not awake either, when I had a half-dream of the theatre being on fire.
It was on my mind for the day, not because I believed it would come true, but because I decided it'd be fun to build on it and write a short story.
Today, we drove up to the theatre, and I was dropped off outside, surprised to discover that the entire dance school was standing outside. Why? The fire alarm was going off.
It was a false alarm, and there was no fire for the rest of the night, but it was still oddly coincidental, and almost scary.
-Kelly
My thanks to John D for sending the cartoon below:
Coincidence In Surrealism
My dad took the family on Sabbatical from the University of Kansas to France in 1989, and we lived in a house in a suburb of Paris. The house belonged to a woman who was a curator at the Louvre, and she rented it out to (mostly) visiting scientists -my dad's a physicist.
There was a book on Surrealism in her library that I always wished I'd stolen but, back then, I was 14 and a good kid.
Years later, I was walking around Manhattan on my third day in college with a bunch of other new Cooper Union students. We'd come from all over the country.
This one flat-nosed guy from Pennsylvania and I started talking about our parents, and Sabbaticals, and the conversation went something like this:
"You lived in France, too, huh?" I said.
"Yeah, in a suburb of Paris."
"Really? Did you live in Orsay?"
"Yeah." At this point, I got a creepy feeling.
"Did you live at 35 Rue des Xxxxxxx?" I asked.
He had the Surrealism book back in his dorm room. I should of stolen it from him.
- Anonymous
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Good ones! I especially love the cartoon!
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