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TAG Gossamer Dream Stories
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After the play, Gossamer, students brought a treasured object to school and wrote a story about the memory fragments a dreamgiver would find by touching that item. Enjoy the photos of the objects and the stories they inspired. ABDULAZIZ'S STORY My name is Abdulaziz that means "Servant of the Mighty" Who do I serve? Well, I don't know myself, but I think it might be the Humans because that is my job and duty as a Dream Giver. And when you're my size Humans are pretty mighty! Many wonder what I am, and what I do. Well, I am a Dream Giver and I bestow dreams for a living. What does that mean you ask? Well, I collect fragments and good memories from different objects I find and "sneeze them" into the brains of humans while they are sleeping to give them good pleasant dreams.
Well, one day I come to my assigned house to collect fragments and bestow my dreams. There is a peculiar thing sitting on the ground. I go up and examine it more closely. It is all black; the coldest darkest color. It didn't smell too good either. But I touched it anyway, fluttering my hand all over it. At first I recoiled at the pieces that came to my mind. A scraped knee, all bloody and infected. I pulled away. But something intrigued me, I touched again, and a strong, brave feeling came to me. That meant whosever object it was has had it for a long time, and many of the same item before it. I suddenly felt a rush of wind to my face like I was flying down the street. I had the memory of skateboarding. Obviously this person liked doing that a lot. I thought it a fit dream to bestow on the boy that was in my fragments. So I steadily walked across the house to the boy's bedroom. I fluttered up to his ear, gathered all of my good memories, and when I couldn't hold it in anymore I sneezed them into his ear. A smile went on his face. Then I fluttered down, admiring my job well done. I went back to my nest with my friends wondering what else I could gather for that boy. Kiyoshi, the dreamgiver Kiyoshi the dreamgiver. That has a pretty good ring to it. Sadly, I don't like my job at all at the moment. Due to the fact that I hate going back to the Heap, I tend to hang around my assigned house. Which means, I have to witness the miserable life of the eldest child living there. She tends to get the worst and craziest nightmares. I don't know why, but she's the perfect target for Sinisteeds. And so, I'm the one stuck giving her...remedial dreams, if you will. Those don't seem to take any effect on her though, which just makes everything worse. So, here I am, looking for something that will give her a good dream, even if it's not from a real, or true memory. I look around, making sure to escape the attention of everyone that was still in the house. I also made sure my iPod was on low, so that they couldn't hear me. Although, if they did, they would think that she was listening to music on the laptop. Thank the gods that she listens to the same type of music as me. I don't get to use my iPod as often as I want to. I sneak into her backpack, and look through the notebooks that she keeps in her bag. You'd think that anything I touch will immediately give me memories, but noooo. I found out a way to look through stuff without picking up so many memories, or delving too far. There's a reason as to why they call me 'genius'. I pull-no, drag-the notebook out of the bag, knowing that she often misplaced things. She would just think that the same thing happened. As usual. She's in the living room, playing her Final Fantasy game...and I really want to watch...but, I have a job to do I guess...OR, just maybe...I could be really lazy and not do my job until nighttime...that's the time to do it anyway...then it's SETTLED!! I will be lazy and sneak off to the living room. I, how do you say...flutter, to the living room, and place myself on one of the oversized amps. I stay there until 9:00 when she starts to get tired, and flutter back to the notebook, collecting memories. Memories of sad days, and some when she's happy, mostly because of...plot bunnies. I wait for her to go to sleep, then start to give her the dream. I place her in the middle of one of her written stories, since she doesn't like dreaming of future events, and I don't blame her. Well, now that I've given her a good dream, she will be safe...for tonight at least.
   If a little tiny fairy, Tracye, would touch my bracelet and my necklace it would explode or have dreams for a lifetime(most likely explode). This would happen because I have not taken my necklace off ever since 4th grade, except for showering and football games. My necklace was given to me for my 1st communion in 2nd grade. I usually don't take it off either except for showers, football, basketball, and baseball. The necklace represents my family and friends since my aunt made it for me. My bracelet represents the interests I have and my belief in God. All the dreams that Tracye has ever given are loaded back into the objects. There is so much in the necklace and bracelet. The necklace has: 2005 Flutterball season, 2 undefeated seasons of basketball, and my first two weeks of West Allis Badger Practice. The bracelet has been in most of the years I went to Green Bay, most of my elementary years, and 2007 basketball tryouts. And, if you were there, how can you forget when I got the greatest scar of all-time on my face. In which the world records were broken for loudest bang on a dumpster, most blood spilled on an elementary playground, and most painful face injury on a playground. Sorry, Tracye, your time is up......  Memories  By: Kevin I searched in a folder. It had pictures and a fastpass. I touch the fastpass and get a memory.The memory is at Disneyland during the day. I see an earthquake happening. Some people are confused, and others are laughing. All the rides stop and people are trapped. The family that the fast pass belongs to is escorted out of the ride areas like all the other people in the park. This is one crazy day! The family goes to get pizza in downtown Disney. The kids in the family went to the ESPN zone while they waited for the pizza to be done. They played basketball, football, and a racing game. After the family ate the pizza, the park started to open up the rides one by one. Since the rides were open, they decided to go to space mountain to use their fastpasses. When they get there, some of the workers say that it is still not working. The family goes exploring in the park and finds a ride that is open: Soarin'. While they're waiting in line there is this guy in front of them saying these hilarious jokes that even I laugh at. It seemed that even though there was an earthquake, the family was still having a good time. I really enjoy watching this memory because it is a happy memory. Dmitri is an amazing dream giver. Tonight he will look for some things to collect good memories from. He walks in a boy's bedroom and starts looking around. First, he finds a gun but that has no good memories in it. All it has is how the boy shot a person once and killed him. So Dmitri moves on to the next item. Next, Dmitri finds a hat but he couldn't get any good dreams for that because the boy wore that hat when his mom died. Dmitri was running out of time; he had to find good memory quick before the boy gets a horrible
dream. He finds a sweatshirt. Finally he finds a good memory. In that sweatshirt there was a memory of how the boy went to Florida and had lots of fun there. Dmitri, the dream giver, saves the boy from having a bad dream.
Fragments By:Luka I carefully opened up the boys wallet. Money.......... I unzipped the side. There was a plane ticket stub. It was from Chicago, USA-Copenhagen, Denmark. I was getting a lot of vibes from the ticket stub. At first I just saw water, then the boy was in a plane with his father. The plane started to go lower to the water. I was confused...was the plane landing on the water? Then I saw a small island with a landing strip in the distance. This had to be the airport. I got of the plane. I then realised that about everyone in Denmark was blonde. I saw two men waiting. I later found out they were the boy's uncle and cousin. The next bit was very odd. Large amounts of cars, water, and blondes. There was a road that turned into a tunnel and went underwater. There was a big ship above the tunnel just as the car went underwater into the tunnel. When the car stopped they were in a little town. There was a big house with a backyard and a jacuzzi in the bathroom. There was a trampoline. Upstairs, sleeping in her bed was a girl, she looked about a year older than the boy. The next month or so was packed with fun for the boy and his cousin. They would ride bikes for miles, play soccer, jump on the trampoline in the rain, slip, and get hurt, but the best part was when the boy jumped off the roof onto the trampoline. There were also babies. Three of them. Two girls and one boy. The boy looked like he was the middle child. There was another girl as well. She looked about six or seven. I later found out that they had been in Sweden. There was another memory. Boxes..lots of them, and moving trucks and vans. The cousin that had been at the airport was the father of the three babies. He, his wife, and the kids were moving into a different house. The boy and his cousin would ride bikes to the new house to help out. The new house had a pool. The boy was the first one to go in it. He had all of his clothes still on though. Back at home, at his uncle's, the boy and his cousin would eat microwave pizzas everyday. When they went to visit their other cousin, the one that was about six or seven, the boy felt lightheaded. Their little cousin lived on the eighth story of an apartment building. The boy felt light headed. After that summer the boy wasn't afraid of heights anymore.   Quick, intelligent, and creative, well that's what i am, and my name, weird enough is Sanura, which means all those things. Wel,l the way i got my name was when i was in training. My trainer, Liable Bound, always said that i learned so quickly, and that the way i did everything was so creative. Well, anyways, i'm on my own tonight, and i'm going to a school. i'm assigned locker 657, which is owned by a girl named Kayla. When i get the fragments, i have to go to her house and bestow her. Well, i'm inside the school now, and i'm headed down the long hallway to locker 657. This school is kind of ugly though, i mean who wants a brown locker? Okay, good Kayla has a blue locker. Okay, i have to slide under the little air vent in the bottom of the locker. Oww, its kind of tight; okay, i'm through. Hmm, let's see what we have here, oh, i see a picture!! It's of her and some of her friends. Okay, gently touch the picture. Hmm, well she's on a trip, in the Dells, and they are at Lake Delton... it should be more like Ditch Delton. Umm, well they are taking a break from the waterpark that they were at. Haha, this is funny, they were talking about when they get back to the resort, they were going to play elevator tag, and have races on the luggage carts. Oh, and i guess that they were talking about the resturant they went to the day before, Monks. The girl in the pants was talking about how her and Kayla got frisbees as plates, and then chucked them off the balcony. Haha, it hit a car. Oh, and after they visited Lake Delton, they went back to the waterpark, and went down the Hurricane, and nearly flipped off the raft because they were upside down. Okay, i think that i have enough fragments to give her an awesome dream. Okay, i'm on my way to her house. Okay, i'm here and i'm slipping under her door. Alright, i'm inside her room once i made it up her steep stairs. Alright, now its time to put my creativity to the test. Okay, i'm hovering over her now, and i'm scooping up all the fragments, and whoosh and now she's dreaming. Mission accomplished, and now i'm headed off to Ditch Delton.  If a little fairy named Kahana touched my baller shoes it would explode because a small being can only handle a certain amount of awesomeness. They are so awesome because while wearing those shoes our basketball team went undefeated, and won our conference. We were the best team in the league. Also, close to half of our team had these shoes so they were like good luck or something. So I would have dreams of winning and happiness, and excitingness (if you'd consider that a word). The shoes are also important to me because that was the best any sports team I've ever been on has done. So, basically, if my shoes got touched I would pretty much have the best dreams of all time.  Sixteen year old Flipper was silently tiptoeing around the house of the family with a young child named Kareema who is 12 years old. She had to be careful because she does not want to be heard by the humans and wake them up. In the girl's bedroom there was a shirt laying on her dresser. It said "So You Think You Can Dance Tour 2007" on the front and had a picture of 12 dancers on it. On the back it had all of the cities they went to on tour listed. Flipper decided to touch it with a light gossamer touch to collect good memories to give Kareema in her dreams. When she touched it she saw people beautifully dancing on a stage with teenage girls screaming with delight. Flipper went over to Kareema's bed and gave her the good memories through her ear. One of the memories was Kareema watching one of her favorite dances which was involving a girl as an angel and a guy as a devil. It was really good dancing. Another memory was one of her other favorite dances which includes a girl and a guy and a table that they dance around.The last and final memory was Kareema screaming at her favorite dancers and when they all came out she screamed and clapped very loudly because they are amazing dancers. Flutter silently tiptoed around the house, being careful not to make a sound that would wake up the humans. She was assigned to a family with two girls, a grandmother, and a hardworking mother. The first thing Flutter decided to touch was a photo frame on the kitchen counter. It was a picture of a baby dressed up like a gorgeous doll. She flew up on the counter and leaned over, ready to absorb the memories that would come from gently touching it. Flutter held her hand out and very carefully skimmed the picture's surface. She felt many memories rushing to her. It was a party at some house, and the mother looked very young and happy. The grandmother was delighted and was trying to put make-up on the two-year-old. The mother stood laughing and taking pictures, proud of her beautiful daughter. Guests started to arrive and saying hello to the little girl and her parents. Those were the feelings Flutter got when she touched the photo. She got happy memories and feelings. Wonderful, she thought to herself, this will be the perfect fragment. Flutter then found another item to touch. It was gold earrings, and they were also on the counter. She laid her gossamer fingers on them and absorbed a joyful event. A newborn baby was gifted beautiful gold earrings by her uncle. Perfect, Flutter thought, these memories will make a very happy dream.  Twinkle was anxious. Tonight was her first night by herself to give dreams. She silently walked into the house and went up the stairs."It seems that the master and I have almost used every item in the house. I wish the boy would get some new items that mean a lot. Hmm what's that over there. It looks like a sweatshirt. It says, West Allis Badgers. Maybe this has some memories. Let's try it out." Twinkle then touched the Sweatshirt and immediately the boy started having wonderful dreams. He remembered beating the Wolverines 36-0, sacking the quarterback and having fun playing football. "That seemed to do the trick", said Twinkle, well, I guess my job here is done. Then Twinkle fluttered away aware that she had given another great dream to the boy.
The Special Hair Tie The hair tie was a special item that was given to Lily, I felt a feeling that I never had before. It represented her cousin/ best friend. Her cousin lives in Wausau, but they don't visit very often anymore. They missed each other so much, but all they could do was ask their parents every weekend to visit each other. Then one day I came. I am still trying to help Lily have good dreams about her cousin, but I have trouble finding the hair tie. I see the sinisteeds come every time, but I can't help. Then one night, I saw a hair tie that looked just like it, but when I tried to get the fragments of that hair tie, there was nothing. I was very sad that it wasn't the hair tie that she liked the most. I don't know why I can't find the hair tie anymore, I always saw it before. Maybe she is holding it, because she is trying to have good dreams about her cousin and herself together. But then, I saw it. It was it! It was the hair tie! I ran flew to the hair tie and got fragments of it, then put it in her ear. She slept happily every other night too! I was glad that I accomplished my job!   When I touch this cross I feel.... When I touch this cross I feel a sensation I have never felt before. I feel full of energy, and I just want to run all over the place. I want to bounce off of the walls. I want to run outside, and run around the world a million times. I feel people having a good time. I feel everyone getting along, and having the time of their lives. It gives Wickedly Awesome One That Likes Halo and Football good dreams. If it gives me good dreams then I want to go to sleep right now, so I do. I have a wonderful dream about being a professional football player, and scoring the winning touchdown in the Super Bowl. I wake up in the best mood ever, I am in such a great mood I don't even feel tired. I know I am, but I just got the best sleep of my life. I feel refreshed and energized. If touching the cross gives me these stupendous dreams I'm going to touch it everyday for the rest of my life. I will always keep this cross around my neck so if I am having a bad day then I will touch it, and I will feel better. If I always have this around my neck then how can I have a bad day? I guess it's impossible.  HI, I'm a dreamgiver named Carolina. I love to touch things. All the other dreamgivers think I'm silly for liking to work, but I just love it. They think it's because I'm only 12, but it's not! Maybe it's because I have the best house ever! I love to touch things in that house, I don't know why. Just last night I touched this hairband on this girl's wrist and it was filled with memories. I saw very happy memories. I saw that this hairband was almost always on her wrist or in her hair. She won soccer, volleyball, and basketball games in this hairband. Also, she tried out for a dance team, and made it, in this hairband. But there was some bad things too. like, just recently she was wearing it and and she sprained her ankle and... well I don't like to talk about the bad things, so, yeah. it's almost time to start work again, so I have to go, bye. 
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