We were in a barren place of shifting sands. Vehicles of various sizes kept appearing near us. Some of them had recently broken down. Some of them were sand-swallowed husks that had been there for decades. A friend of mine…

We were wandering around some version of Ann Arbor. I had a special type of scope you could look into that would allow you to see the landscape before human civilization came along. It was just like being lost in…

My dad played a show of songs based on a folk singer’s interpretation of lost biblical stories. Then he figure skated a whole routine with costumes and flips and everything. But all we cared about was that the music was…

We took a trip to the Moon. Apparently someone had figured out how to grow things there, because there were trees everywhere. It looked like a grey, rain-soaked logging town. There were ramshackle houses set close to each other with…

I was making lunch at work. The nature of my job was unclear. I made a delicious banana shake of some kind. My dad needed help preparing for a board meeting. We walked through an indoor mall, and salesmen kept…

I was trying to find my way home, but they kept adding numbers to the street signs, so I became a college professor. As a police detective it was my job to track down a missing person. My partner said…

We were trying to toughen up a friend of ours to get him ready for a role as a troubled police detective on a prestige drama. We showed him how to steal every single item in a store. Then we…

Walking around outside and reading different magazines to find out where to buy things. Nearby in an industrial part of town there was a business where all they did was film cars crashing into each other for movies. One of…

Business idea: a floating pool toy that looks like a giant dead mosquito. Why wouldn’t anyone buy this?

We were in a college town where we kept stealing everything from everyone. We were staying in a flophouse that catered to rich and poor alike. We kept listening to stories from the other residents. Michael said his friend “Hot”…

I was trying to complete some kind of graduate program. I was getting help from a woman who lived in the area. In return for her help, she asked me to find her daughter who had disappeared recently. I was…

I wanted to do a magic trick, but I was completely wrapped in plastic bubbles, so I couldn’t feel anything.