Part One

I was in the mountains with my mom and we were looking for hot springs. We climbed down waterfalls and found some. My mom thought they were too sulfurous to soak in but I didn’t mind because I had nasal congestion. We saw an unfinished statue of a lynx and we also saw an actual lynx. Then we went to a playground where we were chased by a woolly mammoth and a giraffe.

Part Two

I was killing zombies with Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert and we were trying to get to some important place. We came to a steep hill with hundreds of zombies on the other side. There were too many for us to fight off with guns so we used a remote control to bring Stephen’s car to our location. The plan was to get in the car and plow through the zombies, but the car could not climb the steep hill.

I went to a roller rink in Longmont. I brought my own inline skates but everyone else rented shoes and skates to wear over them. Heshaum sat next to me before they allowed people to skate. There was dramatic lighting and music and a large group of people in formation seemed to be preparing for roller-battle. There were also confusing arrows and lanes painted on the rink. I skated around the rink a few times but I wasn’t very fast because I hadn’t skated in a while. I decided to sit down next to a blonde girl. She asked me if I go to CU; I told her I go to FRCC even though I already have an associate’s degree. We watched the rink employees shred a cow and dump the pieces in a truck. We went outside and saw a lake with an island. The lake was surrounded by colossal sculptures. There was an outdoor bar where they were selling joints and Heather was in a hot tub with a bunch of guys. One of the guys was a werewolf. He seemed to be attracted to me because he gently scratched my knee with his claws.

I was in the desert with my dad, my stepmom, Daniel, and a crowd of other people. We were gathered around a large empty fountain. A Pepsi truck started filling the fountain with water and kids started running counterclockwise around it in anticipation. This was how Water World opened its doors each day. The crowd made its way into the main park, which was mountainous and forested. Daniel didn’t want to go on the dinosaur or mine rides because there were new rides built into the sides of the mountains. There were life-sized castles and cathedrals and there was even a nudist section.

There was an old man sitting at the dining room table. He didn’t move or talk very much. He was supposedly watching over the house while my parents were gone. I saw a woman in the mirror who wasn’t standing next to me. It scared me so much that I tripped and fell on the floor. The old man told me she was a ghost and that he sees ghosts around him all the time. He also said he sees them around me all the time and that they are waiting for us to die.

My mom got a new puppy. It was very small and it looked like a yellow frog with orange spots. It felt like a child’s beating heart when you held it in your hand. I was carrying it in the garden and it vanished, though I could still feel its heartbeat in my palm. It may have been using camouflage. I thought I dropped it so I looked everywhere for it. I never found the puppy but I did see a white tiger squeeze out from under the house. There was a second tiger in the hole but I had to use a bucket of catnip to lure that one out. I thought the first tiger was going to eat my cat but they seemed to get along pretty well. A diseased rat was the only other thing living under the house and it ran away. My mom told me to pour some hydrogen peroxide around the hole.