Nightmares

My imagination never works overtime. It simply doesn't know what that word is.

My imagination works all the time!

I never lack for feelings.

I can manifest them as stories, or put them to work capturing the interest of a group of school children, or regaling some poor soul who is a friend.

Sometimes there are still too many left over and they spill out of me at night when I am most vulnerable in the form of dreams and nightmares. The only difference between the two being the way I feel while they are occurring, or when they are over.

I think maybe that is my body's way of telling me I need to write more. For me writing is the release that others find in gardening, or tennis.