Poste Restante

Fiction. "Whenever I dream about 'home,' it's never where I am residing at the time. For that matter, whenever I dream of a place, it's never the place but an idealized concept of one, perhaps amalgamated with other places, including ones I have never been to or that might not even exist. The same is true of people...These nocturnal histories were written in the dark, in the wake of sleep when I couldn't always see what in fact I was writing...POSTE RESTANTE (literally, `post remaining' or `residual mail') is an ad hoc destination for mail sent to people who are just passing through a place they do not permanently reside. It's what you say when you don't have a place you call 'home.'"--from the For/Word to POSTE RESTANTE.