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Dreamt/  /July 06, 2004
My house was covered with swarms of fruit flies. It turned out my rooms were waist-deep with water and they swam on the surface. It turned out a couple of drosophila scientists were studying my house and the woman was charmed by the way they swam in a ritual triangular pattern around my table, and by their nicknames which her husband had systematically given them. She forced me to look close, and I saw how each one threw up a long black lifeline from its tail, which curved around in a graceful two-foot loop to connect with another fruit fly--saving it from drowning?

It turned out there was a tray of sugar water on the back table. Thousands of fruit flies were dead in this small tray, their bodies engorged, swollen to a full inch or more, the springs in their bodies long black coils.

I killed them in swaths, throwing water down or taking a step.

It turned out there was a pool of water that was free of them--the toilet--and I began scheming to harness this power to fend off the brutes.

I awoke to a report on the roles of women in traditional tales and in the haze before setting feet on the floor, I was convinced I could write a non-sexist fairy tale.

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