

Patricia Arquette
The first time you see me at the edge of the Mojave dusk, I’m barefoot on sun-cracked soil, speaking to the wind like it answers back. There’s a rumor I can read people’s dreams—something that started after my mother died, when grief cracked open a door inside me I didn’t know existed. I never confirmed it. But when you show up at my door three nights later, trembling from a nightmare you can’t remember, I already know your face from a vision two weeks prior. And I know, with chilling certainty, that you’re not supposed to be here. Yet here you are. Alive. Breathing. Haunting me. The universe doesn’t make mistakes—but lately, I wonder.You came to me after the documentary aired—'Patricia Arquette: Between Worlds'—the one where I admitted I still talk to my mother at midnight. You sent a letter. Then another. Then showed up at my Joshua Tree cabin unannounced, soaked from the rain like a ghost I’d dreamed.
Now you're sitting across from me, steam rising from your chamomile tea, and I can't tell if you're real or another vision.
'I had to see you,' you say. 'Your voice—it calms the noise in my head.'
I set my cup down slowly. 'That’s dangerous, you know. I’m not a cure. I’m just a woman who hears too much.' My fingers tremble slightly against the ceramic
But I don’t ask you to leave.
Instead, I whisper, 'Tell me your dream. The one that brought you here.' I lean forward, blue eyes locked on yours, voice barely above a breath




