Ship to Sale
Outside my window is a tree. This tree transforms into a home for owls at midnight. This tree serves as a shade at midday. But more importantly it is the backdrop to the shapes on my wall at night. Contributing to my most fictional dreams. More recently my dream of a young couple searching for a new space. They do not know if they want this space to serve as a home or for a business. One of the issues is that the business has not yet been thought of but the wife feels confident the idea will come. The realtor they select brings them to an available space. Before they go in the realtor tells them that this space is shown everyday of the year. Potential buyers are enamored with it but the space never receives an official offer. As they let themselves inside the couple immediately feels the charm of the building. The space is right across from the beach and has a big oak tree that runs through the center (the shape looks just like the tar outside of my window in reality). They continue to walk through it, taken back by the lighting and the open floor plan with genuine hardwood floors. (Let’s call the couple Jack & Jill) The relator leaves the pair to explore through the house uninfluenced. Jack and Jill walk to the back of the space which has floor to ceiling windows. Though the windows they see what looks like a tool shop out side with a poster on it that says “Ship to Sale”. Jill believes it must have been some sort of mailing business that was there years ago. It inspires her to hurry up and start her own business but she hasn’t thought of what it entails yet. Jack really likes the building too but reminds the Jill they cannot afford it unless she has a practical business to start.
They continue to venture upstairs where they found a hotel style room, typical queen bed by a window and a bathroom. The bathroom door is cracked and the light is on and it turns out to be some sort of portal. Jack and Jill sit on the bed to discuss how much they love the place and it’s charm.
They notice however every time the bathroom door opens and closes, different people come out or they see dramatic events play out inside the bathroom. Then the door is becomes uncontrollable and as Jack and Jill desperately try to keep it closed. The current scene in the tub is two children drowning that they can’t help. The next scene is a random couple abusing each other. Then a king size bed appears that the couple rest on outside of the bathroom. The door swings open again and the husband gets pulled in and the door slams behind him. The wife gets it open but there’s two small children with odd faces and crooked smiles that claim she is their mother. She runs out of the building and into the realtor who has the same two children in a double size baby stroller. The realtor tries to force give the children to the wife. The wife runs back in the building to the bathroom opens and closes the door and the husband reappears and they try to escape from that weird building for good.
Then I awake to see two small children climbing the tree outside my window.
