Author: Michael Murray

  • Trump Dream

    Trump Dream

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    The Dream As told by Robert Dugger, 46: “I hate Donald Trump. I’ve always hated him. I find there to be absolutely nothing appealing about him. Not a thing. He’s a monster. A lizard monster. This has always been my disposition toward him. In my dream I was an invisible observer of him. Upon advice…

  • Jones Car

    Jones Car

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    Rachelle has run into the store to pick up a few groceries while Jones and I wait outside in the car. Me in the front, he in the back. Jones has figured out how to operate the power windows and this gives him no end of amusement. Cool, grey wind blows in through the open…

  • Hospital

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    The trees are turning and the driver picks me up, takes me through the University campus to the hospital. As I open the door to get out, he leans toward me, “I hope you feel better soon.” I thank him for his sincere words, not bothering to tell him that I am not sick, but…

  • A Dream

    A Dream

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    Michael Murray
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    The Dream As told by Bruce Gamble, 43: “ I had one dream about her when I was a younger man, in my early 20’s. Just one. We fell recklessly, fully in love. I had no idea who she was. I mean, she wasn’t a celebrity or an assembly of people I knew, but was…

  • Jones tree

    Jones tree

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    Jones is exhausted after school. Beneath his bright, yellow backpack he wobbles up the street. So small beneath his outsized potential. He scans the horizon for the ice cream truck but it is not there. Like the brave warrior he is, he brushes this disappointment aside. He will show me his tree, his favourite tree.…

  • Dream

    Dream

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    A dream recounted by Ash Basak, 48 years old: “ I was in a house in a valley. It was raining heavily. I went out to the terrace and could see a dark black tornado formation in the sky. I could also hear children’s voices, but I could not see them. The voices sounded distant,…

  • Greta Thunberg ordering a coffee

    Greta Thunberg ordering a coffee

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    This is all wrong. I shouldn’t be standing here. I should be back in school not waiting in this long, horrible lineup! This is not a Honeycomb Lavender Frappuccino! It is a Pumpkin Spice Frappuccino! It is an abomination! Yet in spite of your laziness and incompetence, you come to me for hope, hope that…

  • Dream Poster

    Dream Poster

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  • Kindergarten pickup

    Kindergarten pickup

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    Michael Murray
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    The parents line-up by a chain link fence behind a big, flowering bush. The teacher lets us into the school one by one or in pairs. When it’s my turn I step into the hallway and can see into the classroom. All the children are sitting in front of their cubbies, knapsacks on their backs,…