The Mystery and the Miasma

[ridiculousman]

I was supposed to look up something I used to remember before I fade it out of my mind and think it just a dream.

And then I remember: miasma. Lodged in my brain like a splinter is a short conversation between a man and a woman (who may or may not have been wearing a sandwich-board sign) centering around the word miasma.The young woman uses the

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[slimesymphony]

If it was just from a dream, then this is the second time in a few days that I have seriously confused a dream and reality and I apologize for taking up your time.

Ha! Over words, no less. How bizarre.

[ridiculousman]

It wasn't from that O. Henry story I read to you, was it?

[slimesymphony]

I don't recall that ever happening. Although I'm willing to bet you read it in a book.

[ridiculousman]

This is the kinda of thing that happens when your world shrinks to the size of your head and your mind expands to the size of your room.

[riverlights]

It sounds like a dream to me. Though I'm not you, so I wouldn't really know. One time I dreamed of semicolons.