Lancaster Sales

It was late in the evening and I was in a shopping mall. Specifically some sort of games shop, where they were selling new video game cartridges for the C64 computer on an endcap near the front of the store. They weren't the right size or shape, but that's what they were labeled as. I even opened up one of the small boxes after shaking it, to see what exactly was inside. It was supposed to be some sort of driving game, but the cartridges were actually memory cards - and there were several extras inside, so I attempted to buy the box since someone had stuffed it with other titles.

Before that could happen I found myself in the aisles of Lancaster Sales and the store was obviously closed for the night, and I ran into a woman near the back who had been cleaning the aisles. While she continued sweeping the floor she motioned to the things she had placed on a table, and in broken english she told me that I could take something if I wanted to. It was a table full of alarm clocks, one which was made of wood. I took that one, because I knew that Cassi actually needed an alarm clock.

When I walked back into the aisles of Lancaster Sales, I noticed that the first rack of stuff was actually filled with all of the unusual or rare toys that I liked as a child and teen, pre-owned and loose. There were Transformers, some obscure MASK toys, along with other things that I couldn't identify but knew as familiar and beloved from my past. The store was closed, so I did what any bad person would do and started selecting things from the shelves that I was going to take home with me.

Before I could get very far with that I heard some noises coming from the front of the store. I ducked down and started sneaking towards the front... and as I was doing so, I realized that every shelf in the store was actually filled with used items from the past, things that different people, for one reason or another, would find precious. Along the front wall of the store, I actually stopped and started picking items from "someone else's" shelf. Various weird collectibles, little stuffed Big Bird dolls, some different strange coins... but again, before I could complete my shopping, more noises were heard from the front. This time it was gun shots.

Now there were actually more secret shoppers in the store, so we stayed crouched down and began meeting up with each other to figure out how we were going to stop the people with guns from taking over the store. The only lights that were on were the emergency exit lights and the light that was coming in the front from the parking lot lights, so it was easy enough to stay hidden, but also difficult to see the gunmen.

It quickly turned into chaos though, as one of us somehow found a car inside the building and began driving like a madman... running into each of the gunmen one at a time, slowly turning the tide in favor of our side... but most of us were still stuck in the back of the store. At this point, back in one of the break rooms, quite a few of us were back there and I was noticed by Amy Pond (from Doctor Who) who was sitting on top of a pool table. She started coming towards me, wanting to make out, because she said that it had already happened before, so it wouldn't be a bad thing now. Apparently I was now the most recent regeneration of The Doctor, but I told her that it was actually Ten or Eleven that she made out with, and pointed out that they were (somehow) also in the room if she still wanted them.

I then began working on what was apparently some sort of device that could transport us out of the store, which was actually a large flat box of cooked rice and shellfish. Or at least it was supposed to be. As I was moving the rice around, trying to prepare the device, I noticed that half of the box actually had ramen noodles where the rice was supposed to be, and exclaimed how it was no wonder that none of the Doctors could get it working.

Many of us left the break room at that point and made a dash towards the front of the store... and we saw the person in the car still driving around, knocking things over, killing the people with guns... and as we continued to run and hide or fight, someone yelled that we should just leave, because the people with guns had all been chased into the store or killed, and the front doors were unblocked and unlocked and there was no reason that any of us needed to stay in the store any longer.

Anti-Grav Water / Bicycle Trip

I was hanging out with my cousin Jim in his house, which appeared to be only slightly better than your average abandoned house that you see on the back roads in the country around SE Ohio. We were sitting in the living room and he was pointing out to me that there was a small water leak in the living room, so I needed to be careful.

And he wasn't kidding. As we sat there, water started leaking from one corner of the room... but rather than filling the room the way that water normally would, it instead behaved almost like pudding or play doh, while remaining completely clear and feeling to-the-touch like normal water.

So it kept oozing out and forming a big "pile" of water in the corner of the room, which did eventually grow large enough to have crept over to me and started touching my feet. I started to react by pulling my (bare) feet out of the pile of water, but he warned me not to do it - telling me that if I broke the barrier that the water would then pour out all over us like normal water.

So I kept trying to delicately pull my feet away but it wasn't working. The water was now almost to the top of the room, leaving little room to breathe, so I finally did just yank my feet out of the giant pile of water - turning the living room essentially into a giant aquarium, with the water going all the way to the ceiling.

We hurried up the stairs into the second floor of the house, which actually let us out to the ground level... so, I guess we were technically in a basement, even though there were ground level windows that could see out. But anyway, we went outside to his backyard, which was more like an abandoned factory parking lot, complete with two big metal doors that had to be raised and lowered to control the flow of traffic into the lot. He showed me how the doors worked in sync with the various traffic symbols, and as he was doing that Scott Fate drove up in a little tiny car.

I went upstairs again to let Cassi know that her brother was there to give her her tattoo, but she was asleep and I couldn't really get her to wake up to hurry up and get ready for him. I didn't want him to have to wait, because I was worried he might just leave - but Cassi did make her way outside to the patio to get her tattoo, even though she was still half asleep.

At this point I decided to go for a ride on my bike, since I didn't wanna wait around for the hour or so it would take for the tattoo to be completed... so I grabbed it and headed off north in the parking lot. Before much pedaling I found myself approaching the northern border of the country, with a huge body of water that separated the US from the country on the other side.

But rather than being cold, the country across the water was actually in a warm climate... and as I approached the water I could hear the sounds of slot machines and music and fun coming from the other side, as I pedaled past luxury hotels with giant outdoor pools where women were swimming topless and having a good time.

They were all smiling and waving, being all friendly, and an employee of one of the hotels even came up to me in her Hawaiian dress and offered me a hot towel as I was slowly passing by. I discarded my bike at this point and began walking across a narrow strip of land that went to the other country, except the closer I got to the other side, the further away the casinos and hotels got, and the more the landscape appeared to be a sand-filled desert, not really fit for vacationing.

Adventure

I started off in a small apartment with my dad, my cousin Matt, and Dale Earnhardt Jr. Dad and Matt were doing a remodel of the bathroom, and Dale was out in the hallway watching. I went to check on the progress as well and noticed that they were all frozen in place... frozen in time. I tried to jostle them back into action and it didn't work, however time started up again and they kept working for a couple of seconds. When time stopped again, this time I knocked Dad and Matt's hats off of their heads, and swiveled Dale around to a complete different orientation, so this time when time started moving again they realized that something was going on, because as far as they were concerned, those changes happened in an instant.

I then heard a commotion outside, and realized that the police were coming for me for some reason. There was a robot outside that was willing to lead me away from the house. It was dark, so I had a hard time following him, but I jumped across several cars in the neighbor's driveway, damaging each one as I landed on it, but I kept on running in the hopes that he wouldn't have heard and come out to catch me. My neighbor happened to be TechMoan, a dashcam / tech review guy from YouTube.

But he did hear me, so I started running even faster. Eventually I found a motorcycle and started driving out of town (Lancaster) on 33 heading towards Sugar Grove. But before I could make it over the Broad St bridge, a school bus pulled up along side me and it was filled with mentally challenged kids who were trying to spit on me. I sped up, just to get around the bus, but the driver chose to speed up as well - and to start veering over into my lane to crush me against the guardrail.

I jammed on the brakes and the bus hit the guardrail in a way that flipped it over onto its side, and the bus driver crashed through the windshield and kept yelling at me for whatever slight she felt she received from me. One of the cops finally pulled up to the scene and it ended up being Jenny Eveland, my first serious girlfriend when I was a kid. She made some kind of joking remark about how I was "at it again" and then pointed out the best way for me to get away over a nearby hill.

I made it down the hill, but I was out of breath so I ducked into a school auditorium that was being used as an emergency shelter, for whatever disaster was going on at the time. I sat in the front row of seats along with several other people, when I woman came walking by while carrying a new barbecue grill in the box. As she went past a few of us, we noticed that the box was hot and was leaking a mercury-like liquid from one of the damaged corners, and it was dripping onto all of us.

When the liquid would hit us, it would be absorbed by our skin but then many more blobs of mercury would ooze from different areas of our arms and legs. We all started shouting at her, trying to get her to stop moving, and once she realized the grill was overheating we all started running out of the auditorium towards the nearby mountains.

We made it out of town, and were clear of the city, but we looked back as a giant plane was trying to land in the middle of the city. The city was actually already burning, but when the plane started getting turned sideways due to turbulence, it crashed in a massive fireball when it reached the ground. We shielded our eyes, and we could see the shockwave ring of dust that shot out from the crash site in all directions, and when it reached us the blast of wind almost knocked us off of our feet - but nobody in our escape party was seriously hurt.

Gambling

Me, Dad, and Mom were all gambling in a very small, dimly lit casino... which felt like it was in Atlantic City, but I can't be sure. But it was set up in what felt like the basement of a house, because there were even stairs just next to the bank of slot machines that we were playing on.

I was playing the slot on the end, and Mom and Dad were playing near the middle of the row. I had hit something small on mine, and while it was ringing up the credits I put some money in the slot next to me and next to Dad, and that one started hitting as well.

Dad finally got a really good reel combination with lots of good symbols (I can't remember what they were though...  it was like a generic machine) and all the bells and lights went off. He had me babysit his machine as it was counting up the credits, because he had to run to the bathroom. By the time it had finished and printed out the ticket, it was above $7000.

Dad hadn't returned yet, and Mom was wanting to take the ticket to the cashier to get it turned into real money, so she headed off that way and left me to continue playing on the machines. Several more minutes had passed and neither of them came back yet, so I cashed out my machines and headed towards the cashier area.

Mom was there, and she had gotten the money for the winning jackpot ticket, but she was just standing there, unsure of where to go next. She didn't seem extra worried... she was just sort of "on pause" in that spot, standing still while all of the hustle and bustle went on around here. When she saw me she was relieved, but again, didn't seem super worried.

We decided then that it was time to take a break from the casino and headed up the nearby stairs.

Looking After

I was living in a small one bedroom apartment, and since Mom was staying with me I had been sleeping on the couch at nights. This particular night Genesee was also there, and she had already fallen asleep on my couch so I was trying to sleep in the recliner but Mom kept coming out and using the phone. It was keeping me awake, but it wasn't bothering Genesee, as I was doing my best to make sure Mom remembered that someone else was sleeping in the apartment.

The most recent phone call, the one that had woken me back up, was actually when Dad called from work to talk to her. I could overhear his end of the conversation, and he was talking to her about how he had gotten time off of work because he had won a free trip to Florida for all of us, and he was giving her all of the details.

Mom was getting a little bothered though, because she thought that he was telling her that she had to move to Florida by herself, so I ended up taking the phone from her so I could get the details and then relay the correct information to Mom. He needed to know our social security numbers for the prize forms, because they wouldn't issue him the plane tickets until they had all of our information.

By the time I got off of the phone, Mom had left the apartment. Since it was the middle of the night and really dark out, I tried to wake Genesee so she could help me figure out where she went, but since Gen had just traveled all day to get to the apartment - she was whupped and I couldn't wake her up.

I apparently lived in a rough part of whatever town I was in, because when I went outside it reminded me of a dark version of what John Constantine sees in that movie when he takes his trips to hell. Wind was blowing, ash and dirt was coming off of everything, not a living soul in sight... no way to know which direction Mom went.

I remember thinking how odd it was that we were trying to plan a vacation, trying to do something fun, when all of this other bad stuff was going on and Mom was nowhere to be found.

Sarah Mae Wildman

I was sitting in the upper deck of some big football stadium with Ryan Newman, shortly after he won the 2015 Daytona 500. He was laughing and joking with some other drivers, and I told him that if he could maintain 1st place throughout the entire season and win the championship, that I would give him $500. He laughed again, probably because $500 means pretty much nothing to me, but I told him how that was a decent amount for a normal person to offer someone in a bet like that, and he understood.

Everyone but me left the stadium seats, but Carl Edwards was still on the field below, throwing a football around with someone. He shouted up to me that I shouldn't just sit there, and that he would throw the ball around with me if I came down to the field. I started to make my way down, but he tossed the ball up to me before I could even get a few rows down. I tried to throw it back to him, but my crappy shoulder caused me to throw the ball into some of the supporting beams of the upper deck supports.

When I finally made it down to the field I was dressed in a baseball player uniform. I was standing around with other players, although I had a black uniform on while everyone else was wearing blue. The location had changed from a professional sports stadium to a small baseball field in the woods, and it was now night.

While standing in line to bat I was starting to get nervous, knowing that I was the third person up to bat, and the two hitters in front of me had already taken 2nd and 3rd bases. I decided that my bad shoulder worked in my favor, because even though it was going to hurt to hit the ball, essentially I would just be bunting and had a good chance of letting the runner on 3rd score,

Once I got up to bat, they wouldn't give me a full sized bat. They said that it had been lost in the woods, so Alyssa Milano came out from the trees and tried to give me a cricket bat. I told her that I couldn't hit with a bat like that, and I kept hitting her over the head with it until she finally took out a knife and demanded that I hit the ball and then go over to the table to eat.

I don't remember hitting the ball, the baseball scene was gone, but I was now over at an old table covered with candles and rotting food, and there was an old lady there that was telling me that in order for me to leave I had to eat a raw hamburger made out of human meat. I kept resisting, but she kept chanting the name "Sarah Mae Wildman" as she was cutting the burger into tiny pieces... and after trying to get out of doing it, the old woman took a bit of the burger herself - then so did I.

I was then inside of a dark house, middle of the night, and there was a huge wind storm going on outside... or at least that's what it seemed like. It turns out that it was actually the angry spirit of Sarah Mae Wildman trying to get in to kill me. Every time I would lock a door or window, I'd see it starting to unlock again, and I eventually ran to a set of french doors that were banging and buckling as she tried to get it. It was still too dark to see her outside, but I could hear her screaming as she banged against the doors, causing them almost to open.

I was finally able to push the doors together so they shut completely, and used two skeleton keys to double lock the door and prevented her from getting in, even though I could still hear her angry ghost shrieking outside.

Compilation of Events

I was in some urban setting, during the day, walking around what appeared to be a college campus. It was very busy, very dirty... almost like something you'd expect to see in a movie about some seedy Mexican city or something.

I was in an alley along one of the main roads and I was trying to meet up with Pam, and old friend of mine from high school. While I was talking to her on a pay phone, I saw someone in one of the upper floors of a building on the main street come to the window and start yelling to me that my girlfriend was watching, so I had better look out.

I shouted back that I wasn't doing anything wrong, but the lady just kept yelling "Your girlfriend is watching you!" Nick was with me at this point, and I turned to him and said that I didn't understand what the problem was, because I wasn't doing anything wrong. We both looked around at all of the open windows on the multi-story buildings, trying to see if she was indeed watching me, but we didn't see her.

We started walking down the alley, away from the apartment buildings, and ended up walking through a slightly secluded area between some of the school buildings. At this point it was starting to get dark, and we noticed a suspicious looking guy walking towards us on the sidewalk. Nick said to me that the guy looked like trouble, and I agreed and said it looked like he had a gun.

Nick was walking ahead of me by about 10 feet, and sure enough - as soon as Nick started to go past this guy, he pulled out a gun and started shooting. Nick dove to the ground and rolled towards some bushes for protection, and I came around the corner and shouted at the guy - which made him stop shooting.

He was distracted by me, and then Nick made a lunge towards him, which allowed me to run at him and grab the gun. I wasn't able to get it away from him, but I did have enough control that he wasn't able to aim it at me or Nick. So instead, the crazy guy puts the gun in his mouth and tries to pull the trigger.

I was able to talk to him and convince him to give me the gun, just as a team of police and EMS people showed up. He said he was going to tell the people that he had a gun, but that I took it away from him, but I convinced him to just act like he was sick... and they took him away, with me being able to tuck the gun into my pants.

The police didn't realize that Nick and I were involved in this potential shooting event, so we were able to head down the road without having to answer any questions. Once we hit the main road, once again someone in the upper floors of the apartment buildings started shouting. "They're coming! They're coming!" was all we heard.

We turned to look over our shoulders and noticed a large hill or mountain, with search lights from helicopters being visible even though the helicopters were not yet. We started running down the street, away from the helicopters, until we made our way to a large abandoned apartment building.

And actually, it wasn't completely abandoned... because there were people living in some of the units, even though the building wasn't suitable for living in. We got into one of the hallways and heard some noises coming from inside one of the nearby units. I used a claw hammer to break up the wall a bit so I could climb up to an indoor window, but as soon as I started to peek in I was confronted by someone.

It was Tom Cruise... and he was FREAKED OUT. Whatever he was afraid of, it caused him to knock me down off the wall and slam the windows back shut, screaming something at me... although I couldn't understand what it was. At this point Nick had disappeared. (Without any concern to me, that is... he just wasn't there anymore.)

I continued walking up and down the hallways, going from floor to floor, but now I was looking for my girlfriend. I think I was concerned at whatever was approaching, and I wanted to find her so that we could both be safe somewhere. As I reached the upper floors, I finally found where she was staying.

There were several large apartments on the upper-most floor that had been taken over by a gang of people. They were up there partying, drinking, and carrying on... completely acting like they didn't even care that something bad was coming this way.

I started kicking open doors, hoping that I was going to find her up there somewhere - but when I did I was pissed off. It turns out that she wasn't up there hiding, she was up there partying with everyone else. She was actually sitting in a giant hot tub with a bunch of other girls that were just chilling out.

When I asked why she wasn't hiding and why she wasn't trying to find me, she said that she was mad because I was trying to meet up with Pam, and that it didn't matter anyway because I'd always take her back no matter what she did. I told her she was full of crap and I turned around to walk out.

She jumped out of the hot tub and started running towards me, asking me to forgive her, and I kept telling her no. I actually went into other rooms and kept slamming the doors, trying to get her to stop following me, but she wouldn't leave me alone. She kept saying "You know how this goes... I screw up and then you take me back!" I kept trying to get away, she kept yelling... then I woke up. :-/