April 28, 1991 Dream #1 Tim and I are in a hospital waiting room waiting to see Sue. Then we go in to her room; she is lying on a dirty hospital bed. A very sick woman is on the same bed, half falling off the other side. Everything is white, all the people, the […]
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Frances; April 27, 1978 A very long, involved dream, taking place in the psychiatric hospital where I work as a psych aid. A long, narrow room with many folding chairs facing the front. To the left, a small blackboard hangs on the wall near the middle of the room. A tall young man, another psych
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1989/1/18, Council, Idaho My Darling Children, Woke from this dream fifteen minutes after noon – didn’t get to sleep last night until almost daybreak. Timothy and I are living in a small cabin up in the Idaho woods; it sets back from the road a little by itself, other buildings are around a hundred yards
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Dream, 1/13/89 (Friday the thirteenth), Council, Idaho By Frances Slept till after noon again, still don’t know what’s wrong with me. Stayed up till 2, but even so, who needs ten hours of sleep? To dream? I certainly have been dreaming. Just woke up from this dream. Timothy and I are in the same house I have dreamt
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[November 22, 2000. I pick nine-year-old Paris up from school. As soon as we get in the car, she starts.] (Luckily, I had the tape recorder on.) P: I’m hungry I’m hungry I’m hungry.F: What do you want to eat?P: I don’t know. I’m hungry I’m hungry I’m hungry I’m hungry I’m hungry…F: Alright! We’ll
I daydream about being an old lady like my gramma.I will have a little house like she didand keep it neat and clean and cheerful. There will be a garden of zinnias and sunflowerswith vegetables in the middle.And my grandchildren will visit me.I wish I had my pension so I could be there now. I don’t
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Jack Capps (friend, AKA Joseph Weatherbottom) pumps the shutter bulb to take Frances family shot, 1981 Jack Capps, going by his chosen alias, Joseph Weatherbottom, spent thirty years in a state asylum for the insane after he freaked out as a young man during battle in World War II. He dresses meticulously in an open-collared
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A Play in One Scene by Frances Gallopaway Cast of Characters HARVEY DILL: Crackpot psychiatrist. Very tall.WILBUR: A patient. Younger. Short.KATY: Friend of both. Scene KATY’S living room in a Bohemian beach apartment somewhere in California. Time The present.
May 25, 1991 Tim and I are living on a farm in a cute little wooden house. The whole dream has vegetables and fruit and farm products throughout; we all were always handling home grown food. Gramma lives with us. It’s the real Gramma Gallaway, younger then when she died, but still old. Short black
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1979, Soquel, CA From an old Victorian with the roofkindled down lightDeep smoke puffs up and outof the chimney He stands at the hearthwarmed by the fireand by what he is thinking “The bananas, they must almostbe done,” and he relaxes into the feelingof eating them “Jesus it’s hotNo rainNo sun” In the turret, Jennifer