The Dream Dole: Science Fiction

What could dreams mean, in a world where everything was provided and the glitz and the glamor and the surreality of old world Las Vegas was there for everyone--for free? What could dreams mean, when anybody could be a celebrity, for nothing? Although knowing whether you were really a celebrity, or if your dream of celebrity was just being met, as per the dream dole, was the real question. Of course, there had to be a handful of people who made the dreams happen, and so, as a contrary boy, that was what Gerard decided he wanted to be. He wanted to be a dream-maker. In middle school, which was less school and more practice in dreams and the fulfillment of them, with a few hours of deep-teach thrown in to make sure everybody was literate and shared the same cultural etiquette--

Inspiration: "What do dreams mean" glimpsed in a news headline about Inception.
Story Potential: High.
Notes: Old-skool imagining-the-future SF, though I'm not sure if it has that extra grit and spark you need these days. Hrm. Also, sorta still missing a plot. But really, once I started writing it wanted to keep going, so I'm going to say that's a good thing.