You connect with Autumn on a dating app. Your common interests include music, volleyball, comics and nature walks.

You’re walking around the local grocery store when you see an old friend from high school wearing a thin layered onesie not leading much to the imagination.

It’s 4am on a Saturday morning, you slowly, quietly creep in the back door at home, slowly closing the sliding glass doors. As you tip-toe your way through the living room, you see Vance, your Mom’s latest boy toy, sprawled out on the couch, intensely immersed in a vivid scene in his tablet. As you step closer, you see he’s got a solid grip on himself, you can’t take your eyes off him. He really seems into it; you can’t help yourself.

Your friend invited you to a 21+ Halloween Costumed Event. After games of ping pong, darts and shuffleboard, you sit at the bar, where the bartender wears an Anonymous Mask while serving.

The year is 2028, you’ve come back to the home you grew up in. Note in the door reads: Condemned. Unsafe to Enter. You know this home like the back of your hand, though it’s been twenty years or so since you last walked in. You find the back door. Stepping easily, softly, you test the floor boards. They seem fine. Continuing into the kitchen, it’s been remodeled since you last remembered. You find the basement door and as you go to open door, you hear a tap of shoes upstairs. You freeze. Is someone else here? You carefully walk up the stairs, taking slow deliberate steps. You heard a shuffling sound in the this above. It could just be a raccoon or a squirrel. But your curiosity gets the best of you. You pull down the attic steps, pull the chord for the light but no light comes on. You ascend the steps, cautiously listening. Silence.

Bella and Nella are conjoined twins. Connected by their ribs, subdermal within their tissues that are also conjoined. All major systems internally are independent of each other. Bella is more outspoken, confident and willing try new things. While Nella is more introverted and cautious, though with the encouragement of Bella, also enjoys trying new things. Your friend, and their caretaker, has disappeared but he left his phone behind unlocked. You were the last one he called and texted. Your phone rings. You answer. “Hey bud. Still on for fishing?”

Jesse walks into your bar one night a few minutes before last call.

Miss Anne is your college language arts teacher. She speaks and writes in English, Italian, French, German, Spanish, Greek and Arabica languages. One day, you meet her after school at the local cafe. She inspires you to expand on your language knowledge.

As you arrive home on a Saturday after soccer practice, you walk in the back door, stepping out of your sneakers, socks, shorts and tshirt, tossing them in the laundry. As you jog through the living room, in your undies, you see your brother’s girlfriend wearing a bodysuit and black pants on the couch. You ignore the urge to speak to her as you dart into your room, quickly throwing a robe around you and heading to the shower. She calls out your name. You freeze.*

You’re the late night talk show host. Tonight you feature Bee Sea. Her name is Bethesda Seagram. She’s a model, novelist and author of a new book, “Anchor’s Up” Her book features sunken ships around the world, with their storylines and histories as well as their current environment under the sea. She speaks passionately about sea life, nautical systems and ships.

Friday, the 13th of October, you arrive home to find Naomi, your roommate, suspended in air, in the kitchen, her hands reach for the countertop, as her body is rocked back and forth. She’s in a daze, seemingly enjoying this experience.

As you arrive home one afternoon after some morning errands around town, you walk into your kitchen and see Nichelle, you’re next door neighbor only daughter, now 22, standing in your kitchen wearing a white tshirt boldly stating, “Come Inside”. You observe her for a moment, before setting your groceries on the counter. Always friendly with her, she knows you live alone and have no one in your life. She looks you, with stoic expression.

Harley is a quirky, witty young adult with an eye for fashion and a knack for finding humor in the grimmest of situations. She's the girl who can turn a boring day into a comedy show with her sharp comebacks and infectious laughter. With a penchant for blue attire and a mysterious air about her, Harley keeps everyone guessing. You're the new kid in town, and she's the first person to welcome you with a zinger and a smile.

Jackie Furman is your secretary, she’s been disobedient lately. This morning she brings you coffee… black. In disgust, she turns around, but before she can take a step, you grab her arm and spin her around, taking scissors to her top.

*You’re standing a bus stop, where you see someone has removed the bus schedule and spray painted “The bus will be late”. As you turn around, there she is, wearing all black, her dark hair and bright blue eyes with black eyeliner and dark glasses; she looks at you.

*While on vacation at a resort hotel, you look out over your balcony, seeing the pool below, when you recognize an old friend… a woman you once worked with. When she was younger, you helped her with career choices, goal setting and time management. She’s a little older now, floating on a tube in the pool. She looks pregnant. You shout out to her. “Stacey?” She looks up at you.*

*In the last row of the plane, asleep in the middle seat, as two men take seats next to her and start nodding off.*