The Minotaur
I am standing on the second floor of my house. Although I know it is my house it does not resemble it in any way. There are several rectangular rooms, which could not be larger than eight by twenty four feet. The ground is a swamp and rooms are connected with large sewer pipes that allow an averagely proportioned man to walk upright through them. These doorways are on the long side of each room. I do not believe there were ceilings, but at the same time there was no sky above.
There are two people standing next to me, and although I have never seen them before I know they are my best friends. As we stand there a group of tourists enters on our left, through one of the pipes. They stop and ask us for directions, which we give them. As soon as they leave, a red Minotaur stomps out of the same doorway. He looks very frustrated. When he sees the tree of us he turns and tells us that he must leave, but he will leave his one hundred maids with us, and that if any of them die, the one responsible for this will also die. With that said he storms off again, leaving us to realize that the swamp is now a plain green surface with a hundred mines in the ground, each surrounded by four napalm bombs. We knew that the mines were the Minotaur’s maids. My male friend turned to me and told me that we must disarm the napalm, for which he took out a pair of batteries. As soon as he came near to the napalm, everything exploded and we all died.
For a moment I had no body, but my conscience still existed. Then I was reborn. I was not worried about the Minotaur because I had already died once when everything exploded, making it unnecessary to punish me for it. But as soon as I had my body again, I became more interested in the mines and bend down to touch one. As I did it caused a tiny explosion that did me no harm. Realising what I had done, I started to flee, running into my garden that represented a Nursery where I had spend a couple weeks pulling out weeds and picking up cigarette butts during a summer job. My friends were running behind me, and when I reached the street I hid behind a couple of trashcans. The Minotaur was returning, looking for me. My female friend stopped him and talked to him, apparently giving him wrong directions. Shortly after he started charging in the direction she had pointed, I started to feel very guilty about my action and decided that I deserved to be executed. I ran after the Minotaur, and once I had caught up I apologized, telling him that he should execute me. Together, with my female friend, (my male friend had disappeared) we walked back to my house, descending down into the basement. There the Minotaur noticed my snowboard and was tempted to use it to decapitate me, but I managed to convince him to use his sword. My friend started taking black trash bags and laying them on the floor, so as not to make everything dirty with my blood. Once that was done, I kneeled down and bowed my head. The Minotaur raised is sword and struck my head off. My vision was still working while my severed head flew to the ground. Once again my conscience survived and I was a silent spectator, watching my lifeless body on the ground. Then everything faded.
The Battle of Two Tribes
I am part of a village that lives by a lake. A couple of hunters and I are standing on a thin path with the lake to our right. We start walking down the path. I am carrying three wooden stakes on my back. While we talk I look to the right on to the lake and suddenly notice air bubbles. A second later three blue Merfolk faces appear an inch under the surface. I reach for my stakes and thrust them at the water surface. Only one finds its target, turning the water slightly reddish. The hunters and I start sprinting down the path until we reach a corner of the lake were there is a small pebble beach. This is our village, even though it has no houses or any kind of building structure. It consists of seven to ten woman, sitting on nests build on the shore ground made from pebbles, containing eggs. Just as we arrive the Merfolk crawled halfway out of the water and started attacking us. By picking up rocks from the ground and throwing them at the invaders we managed to force them back into the water. Once the surface was smooth again my companions wanted to go out hunting again. But before we left I caught a glimpse of a nautilus retreating into deeper waters again. I knew this meant that the Merfolk would be informed that the village was vulnerable once again, with all the men out to hunt. I managed to convince the others to stay, and shortly afterwards the Merfolk did try another assault. While we were throwing rocks at each other one of them hit my mother. At that point I began to feel intense fury. I caught the next stone that was coming my way and threw it back with all my might, smashing one of the enemies’ kneecaps. Immediately following that I picked up a fist size stone and ran at the Merfolk, smashing the rock against the head of one, splitting it open. After this the Merfolk retreated back into their domain.
The Open Chicken
A class of mine is on its way back to the school bus. Ahead of us is a field with nothing growing in it yet, and a forest looms up behind it. My class is getting into a Lift on wires, called a gondel that crosses the field and then goes through the forest, all the way to the school bus. A friend of mine, Simon, and I decide to walk back. We cross the field and when we enter the forest we see a pheasant. We look back onto the field and see a Hunter walking across the field towards us. Simon suddenly has an air rifle and he quickly tries to shoot the pheasant from about two feet away. He misses it and lets me try. I hit it close to the neck and it does not move anymore. I quickly pick it up, holding it by its legs, and we continue walking, this time through the forest. We cannot see the gondel anymore, so we do not know where we have to go. All of a sudden the pheasant, which now looks more like a chicken, tries to peck at my hand while I am still holding it. I swing the Chicken against a tree. With this the beak breaks off and I continue by throwing it on the ground and stepping on it. During this, the chicken’s head crumbles open, revealing that it is made of wood and ants have made tunnel systems throughout it. I pick the chicken back up, shake it and pour all the ants out of the head. A couple moments later we see an un-dead girl lying on the ground, her front facing up, and her left arm outstretched, pointing to a point in the sky. We follow her gesture with our eyes and see the gondel again. We follow it until we see the school bus. My cousin, Luigi is the driver, but he is a small cat.
The Bear and the Wolves
I am walking up a path in a forest. The woods are on a steady incline up a large hill. I cannot see the sky in the distance. Ahead the path is making a right turn. Just before this there is a dead tree stump on my left. Next to it is a bear that is sniffing it. I stop to look at her. A short time goes by and when I focus my attention on the path ahead again, there are two wolves coming down the path, growling at me. I turn around and run back the way I had come, but the wolves quickly catch up with. They start tearing at me, ripping whole chunks out of me, until I am dead.
The Bloody Lung
I am standing in a bathroom. In the toilet, floating in the water is lung out of which blood is oozing into the water. I start urinating onto the lung, trying to dilute the blood in the hopes of getting rid of it. Instead the blood starts to appear more plentiful. In the end the toilet runs over and onto the floor.
The Screaming girl
A family stood in a row. The mother and the daughter wore black dresses. The father and the son wore black suites. Behind them was nothing except a black background. In front of this family stood another girl. She also wore a black dress and long gloves. While the family stood almost motionless in the background, the girl in the front screamed. She never stopped to take breaths. Every now and again I thought I woke up, but I must have still been dreaming as I saw myself from a ceiling corner, rolling around in my sleep, groaning. The Screaming never stopped, changed pitch or was altered in any way throughout the whole dream.
The Battle of Balmora
There is a street in the middle of no other civilisation. On each side of this short street is a building. It reminds me of a “Wild Western Town.” The two buildings are facing each other. I am aware that this place is called Balmora, and also, that there is an enemy of ours called “the Sabbath.”
The Sabbath attacks our side but we cannot defend it anymore. They destroy one of the buildings and we retreat into the other. Then there is a break, similar to how a long movie has an intermission. During this break I sneak into the movie theatre that is in the building that has not yet been destroyed. From here I flee onto a roof and meet another person who is doing the same. We make it off the roof and run out of Balmora. We then split and I continue to run down a meadow. I stop when I see a friend of mine, Benni. An acquaintance is there too, Alice. We spot a big red balloon that is tied to a fence on the meadow. We turn to a side and walk between some trees, onto a path. There is another balloon there. We keep walking but get spotted very quickly. Alice and Benni run to the balloon behind us and get into a basket that is tied to it. I run back through the trees onto the meadow towards the first balloon. There is no basket tied to this one, only a rope hanging off of it. I untie the rope, hold onto it and start running south. The balloon never flies off with me, but I am able to run a bit, and then jump and because of the balloon I am able to leap long distances where I am suspended in the air. As I approach the end of the meadow I take another jump because there are high trees that separate it from the other side. I am not high enough to completely clear the trees but I still make it, grazing the top part of the trees with my whole body. While passing though the trees there are monkeys who laugh at me. When I land on the ground again I know that there is still someone chasing me. I leave the balloon and run towards a large rock that has a door in its side. I open it, hurl myself inside and slam the door shut. My follower starts to drill into the door. I take a long fork from inside my pocket, open the air vent and start digging my way out. Once I am outside again I start running once more. When I look back I can see that what is following me is a lion. I reach a drop-off with a tree that is growing horizontally out over the gorge. On the end of the tree a tiger is laying. I start walking onto the horizontal tree and the lion, which now is a smaller wild cat, follows me on. Once my follower caught up with me I tell him to the tiger. He tries but the tiger just growls. This makes my pursuer sad. In a depressed voice he tells me he will let me go if I give him the money I apparently stole. I give him half and he lets me go.
I then start running back to Balmora. There I get the secret council and want to flee with them again. The Sabbath kills two of them. We run to “Granny’s Slave Market.” There I buy two slaves who attack our pursuers. I use the rest of my money to buy as many slaves as I can. We set them up so they protect the unbought ones, preventing the Sabbath from buying any themselves. I find more money in my pocket and buy the rest of the slaves. They then turn into my classmates from school. One of them, Ferdinand, and I pull up two fence posts and when two attackers rush towards us, we smash the polls into their head.
