who doe of other people's dant to read accounts ost of the dreams ap World Dream Bank. Msn't? -- there's the the site's owner, aneamt by one person, pear to have been dr im appear to have be weren't dreamt by hd most of those that include interpretiv of his. Some dreamsen dreamt by friends work. It is a stranger. Some include arte notes by the dream you want more dreamsglad it's there. If e site; I think I'm r online dream bank. there's also anothe and less apparatus, ting all the organiste a story incorpora Someday I might wri turally Vampyroteuthscientific names. Nams with my favorite ng them. Also among ampire squid, is amois infernalis, the v er: the Southern Pudcies of tiny pudu dethem are the two spe u mephistopheles. Coe Northern Pudu, Pudu, Pudu pudu, and th 14, 2008 My favoritee Submissions March mments (1)Birkensnak tell, even after rea ones where I can't submissions are the them in the bath and and thinking about ding them repeatedly t the in-between one are good or bad. No so on, whether they hat are simultaneousones, but the ones ts, the sort-of-good ake them out at nighy bad. Sometimes I tly very good and ver the pages and wonde but just to look att, not to read them, emorable fiction is are. Probably all mr what the hell they n print and a few yeway, but once it's ivery bad in its own nly the goodness is badness fades and oars have passed, the te yourself from the deliberately alienavisible. But you can ss. Beckett, just fo recapture the badne work if you want to f awful. It's hard tbout it, he's kind or example -- think a . I think I'd like tke these submissionso know whether to ta ble, and I hope Joanbad fiction as possio take as much good- en I read a story, ie. What I do now, whna will agree with m an. Is that weird? I or not it is Americs ask myself whether ited States, but wheit comes from the Un don't mean whether at America is good-and-bad in the way thther it seems good-a n. (By "America" I ue from Wales or Benind-bad. It could com apologies to the thie United States of; nfortuantely mean th tion the dependencie nations, not to menrty-four or so other ries that I read in ontinents.) Most stos, which share the c quality of Americannes do not have thismost literary magazi Canadian. There's noad enough. They are ness. They are not b strikes me as a niceng Canadian; Canada thing wrong with bei interested in spendrticular I've become place to die. In pa ere I imagine I migh in Newfoundland, whing a very long time y from the bank calld quiet. Today a ladt find some peace an or electronic statem could not sign up fed me to say that we t using the name "Binake checking accounents for our Birkens s a checking accountight, Birkensnake harkensnake." That's r n for very small sumnding checks, writte. Soon we will be se er my name, Brian D.e had to sign up unds, to writers. But w Birkensnake. The fl is no such thing as Conn, because there nce, in the bureaucrstruggles for existeedgling publication we get submissions oI also like it when atic sense as well. more American to me paradoxically seemsn A4 paper. A4 paper r. Maybe we will pribecause it is weirde than U. S. Letter, it would be possible paper? I wonder if nt Birkensnake on A4 That I Will Mail Yos (5)Things for Sale in America. Comment good way to pass fifg to this site is a u March 9, 2008 Goin ries about God Februday. Comments (1)Stoteen minutes of the f stories about God to have read a lot oary 25, 2008 I seem find God's house, orracter is trying to recently. Like a cha the reader is meant it's lost); or else God's cat (because ion in the story is character or situatto understand that a stories about God. II am tired of these a metaphor for God. ut God as such, but against stories abo don't have anything ite about God. Most say something definI would like them to ts pasted onto a vag like a vague God geof the time it seems he writer is like, "seem transcendent. Tue story to make it stuff, but nothing of a bunch of weirdHm, my story is full would like to read 's just like God!" Ireally happens. That aperclips or whatevee about people (or psome stories that ar y do not imply, refedent even though ther), and are transcen ernatively, I would address God. Or, altr to, or in any way God's lost cat. I hry about looking forlike to read the sto e it up for this pos such a story; I madaven't actually read (1)Remote Control Jod of good. Comments t. But it sounds kin a dream that the lies: Last night I hadnathan Redhorse writ base floating in thent was shipped to a terary arts departme ner of reality tv sh as part of some man middle of the ocean ed in, except for Ays flown or motorboatow. Most everyone wa t allowed her to makbot octopus suit thaa who had her own ro was in a lounge in cord time. Anyway, Ie the distance in re on the floor, and I ed a remote control this base, and notic g (the dream versiona post from your blosuddenly remembered when I knocked the read verbatim: "Only of your blog) that d I realize that sexnd onto the floor diremote off the bed a , what the hell doesSince you wrote this was a futile act." is e-mail on Februarecord, I received th it mean? (For the r bly means the night "last night" presumay 24, not today; so remote control is aseems clear that theof February 23.) It control equivalent handling the remote phallic object, and course, but also beause of its shape ofto masturbation: bec ing the remote contrusic (and thus handlcause listening to m he dark. When I "knosually do alone in tol) is something I u at probably means I rol off the bed," thcked the remote cont s came off and fell ate but then my peniwas about to masturb ile afterwards. On tlly sex would be futon the floor. Natura ol off the bed may jing the remote contrhe other hand, knock rol the machine that longer able to contust mean that I'm no e stereo in my case,ry impressions -- th is feeding me senso ce I've lost the remd a TV, that too. On but, supposing I ha to whatever comes onto watch and listen ote control, I have urselves in every da situation we find o. But isn't this the t and try to run us s at us in the streey? People throw slop o change the channel and we are unable tdown in their Jeeps, may begin to feel th it long enough you . If you think about g part of my Jonatha The most interestinat sex is no escape. inarily keep my remo is that I don't ordn's-dream blog entry ereo is not in my benear the bed. The stte control anywhere bedroom. There is noisten to it from my droom, and I never l lled remotely. Indeem that can be contro object in my bedroo from one's bed, remrol much of anythingd, it's hard to cont om my bed as well asing I can control frotely or not. One th thought; but when I is my own stream of from anywhere else and start having alcontrol of that too,go to sleep, I lose So maybe knocking ted dreams of my own.l kinds of harebrain falling asleep and f the bed just meanshe remote control of sex to be pretty fund I've always foundstarting to dream. A eamed of actual inte have hardly ever drtile in my dreams. I n my life. As soon ass than five times ircourse; probably le ad to dream sex, I barises that might les a dream situation s to try to make suramine my surroundingecome anxious and ex al: it's a dream. I eal. But it isn't ree the situation is r y dream blog was thaprobably saying on mwake up. What I was likely a giant aquawatching TV, or moret I had been in bed t, tiring of them, aote-control fish, burium filled with rem rled the remote contition to sex, had hund desiring to trans t would reappear in t then I knew that irol to the floor. Bu I would be back to whe sex started, and my hand as soon as t e dreams of my blog.h. I hope nobody elsatching the damn fis s and scary clowns; ou dream about wolve Unless ordinarily y y blog, as a kind ofyou do dream about mthen I guess I hope ou could dream about be even better if y break. But it would e. Comments (2)BroccSubmit to Birkensnak a hot tub, or sex. when you peel a broc8 What does it mean oli February 19, 200 m running up into thr veins of white foacoli stem and uncove idn't eat the foam, agic or science? I de florets? Is that m the broccoli. The wan-foamy portions of but I did eat the no the different parts is, I start cookingy I prepare food now them whenever they m times and then eat of my meal at rando osed to go together. of how they're suppget done, regardless a pie for dinner; Ie I am going to have For example, suppos eat the crust by ithe crust first, then am liable to bake t dish and eat that lfilling in the emptyself, then bake the ish. Of course this y have to wash one dater. That way I onl ctually I do not mak of example, since ais only for the sake ly over the course oance my diet, but one pies. I try to bal f rice. On Tuesdays I eat four pounds of a week. On Mondays ays I eat seventeen f cheese. On WednesdI eat three pounds o heads of cabbage; Frays I eat two large apples and on Thursd nine potatoes. Sunda peanuts; Saturday, iday, eleven hundred ry 18, 2008 It's raits (1)Station Februay is egg day. Commen Warwick to visit the and I went to West ning today. Michelle you remember the Sta nightclub fire. Do site of the Station Wednesday, Februaryte was playing? Thistion fire? Great Whi k most people who dove years ago. I thin 20, will make it fi about it, but the afland have forgotten n't live in Rhode Is There's a video of up in the news here.termath still turns t I'm not sure if itne at the moment, buthe whole thing onli this later and the ly if you're reading 's quite legal; sorr eepiest thing I haveite is easily the crink is broken. The s is picture you can sd. If you look at th seen in Rhode Islan found it far creepight be creepy, but Iort of see how it mi twilight and there wGranted, we went at er than it appears. And it's surroundede there ahead of us.ere some weird peopl he picture and whichh you can't see in t by strip mall, whic an all of that. At lBut it's creepier th makes it creepier. zing but not terrifyichelle found it amaeast I thought so; M ople who just like tke there are some peing, and it seems li easy bodies in a buruck in a crush of gro hang out there. St h me; I imagine all mage that sticks witning hallway is an i people nursing the srines being made by those crosses and sh comes with non-visuaage," but for me it ame image (I say "im want to walk up the sweat, crush) and I ls: screams, smoke, ns N' Things. Most ohour or five in Linestreet and spend an the emptiness & des have in life are off the bad feelings I ng at too many Linene I think from lookipair variety and com otal panic now and aood to think about ts `N Things. Is it g ? Is that why people emptiness & despairgain to break up the total panic absolut or something? Or is watch horror movies everyone would be haness & despair, and ely worse than empti tion fire and build forget about the Stappier if they could little creepy when site? I also feel aa Fashion Bug on the he Beach Boys, becaum Smiley Smile, by tI listen to the albu le see ghosts at theon got sick. Do peopse of how Brian Wils ere's an episode of e says: not many. Th Station site? Googl about the fire and tst Chat New England something called Gho content at 21:55), rts at 19:20, actualhe site (segment sta n any ghosts, which se they don't mentionotable mainly becau Or maybe people seehadn't heard of any.makes me think they edy is still so heave time, but the trag ghosts there all th say anything. Becau it's appropriate toy that no one thinks a weird fear of thef frivolous. There'sse ghosts are kind o metimes in the work ngs that turns up so past and of old thi ooks last summer and read a few of his bof Philip K. Dick. I usly in Ubik. It goelarly and most obvio noticed it, particu of the future -- he ci-fi writer's love s beyond a typical s ough it were a nightn by the past, as thseems almost stricke m. I feel the same wrouble waking up fromare he was having t e Station: a kind ofhen I think about thay sometimes, like w world which civilizagainst the material seizing or grating l the things that ha shelter us from. Alation is designed to have died and are dave happened, peopleve happened really h ath. Ghosts are not e get tortured to deying in fires. Peopl to Birkensnake. Comt's all real. Submitsomething to hunt. I oanna Ruocco and I a February 12, 2008 Jments (3)Birkensnake "magazine," though rary magazine. I sayre publishing a lite lly will be more of e chance that it reaof course there's th e just the one issue., that there will ba "chapbook," -- i.e t, I have high hopes high hopes. At leas. We'll see. We have f you are a writer oy submissions yet. I. We haven't read an nless you are in ourd send us a story. Uf fiction, you shoul orn not to publish ant class; we have sw class, or an adjace lasses of 2007-2009. Literary Arts MFA cnyone from the Brown ion, you should sendother writer of fict But if you are any r things that are fomore likely to prefe us a story. We are ally we might preferlso friendly, but rermally bizarre and a rate medical terminotory is full of accu anything. If your s rkensnake, which youtter. It's called Bilogy, so much the be mments (1)Brian Conn learn to accept. Co're going to have to named Brian Conn whoere is someone else January 30, 2008 Th ause he sent me thise Island. I know bec has to do with Rhod nn from RI": So I amt "I too am brian co e-mail, with subjec d... i decide to goo bored out of my min in this meeting and too are from RI... Iome up... oddly you gle myself and you c ust thought you mighNorth Kingstown... j am 38 and lived in ill include this fasing... perhaps you wt find this interest r showing that Brianur blog... thanks focinating email in yo ody owes us money plsting.. and if any b Conns can be intere The difference betw. Thanks, Brian Connease send them to me Island but now livesat he is from Rhode een me and him is th from somewhere elseyland), whereas I am somewhere else (Mar nd. So if you need tw live in Rhode Isla (California) but no ering that one of us can do so by remembo tell us apart, you east some of the timAlso, he works, at l lives in Maryland. remediation means geat remediation. Bat e, in the field of b That could be anotheof people's houses. tting live bats out he is not a full-timl us apart. I think r way for you to tel per. Have other peopt mostly does wallpae bat remediator, bu nd found this blog? googled themselves ale named Brian Conn f there are enough oon the east coast? IDo any of them live Comments (0)Dolls I a Brian Conn party. f us we should have is contest they're hUD magazine about thgot an e-mail from G ss and tell them youUD your e-mail addreaving. If you give G ds of contests. The ill send you all kin're spammable they w me a free sample wost is that they gavenature of this conte view the work on my t issue, and if I rerk from their curren r a $20 gift certified into a drawing foblog then I am enter a of random fiction attracted by the idecate at Amazon. I'm y name on them, so Ionic accounts with mshowing up in electr dn't sent fiction; tthey'd sent. They ha looked to see what Ong Muslim. Poetry mDolls," by Kristine hey'd sent poetry: " t absolutely as an ae. I don't dislike iakes me uncomfortabl reading it myself. Tmost always dislike rt form, but I do al nothing to do with trsonal flaw and has his is entirely a pe You know when you'reoetry, or of poets. he actual value of p le of somewhat dumb whatever, and a coup in fourth grade or means, and they askat the word "virgin"kids have learned wh ve forgotten whethera "virgin," and you' you whether you're t had sex, and you aad sex or you haven' it means you have h will consider your hether the dumb kids ren't sure anyway wh s thing, and so you some thing or a grosaving had sex an awe feel. Anyway, "Doll how poetry makes mecan't answer? That's the stairs. I think olls in boxes under s." There are some d oetry, but I can't, me if I could read pthey would frighten y remind me a littlender about them. Theso instead I just wo because that has dolMusic for Children, bit of John Zorn's ngs about sex in there might be some thils on the cover. The is the feeling of fig it leaves me with poem. The main thin if any poem includes staircase. I think nding things under a I am likely to forge under a staircase, reference to a spac emember the part abo the poem and just ret about the rest of magine that sometimetaircase. I always iut being under the s under the staircase, door to the closet s, when you open the ircase, one that wasdly find another sta you might unexpecte ouse doesn't have a ing down. And your hn't there before, go appen in this poem (. But that doesn't hbasement or anything there are dolls. Krnk it does); insteadat least I don't thi ms and stories.