From reports of dreams and fantasies that Lucy Corin collected from friends and acquaintances after the 2016 presidential election. Corin is the author, most recently, of One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses (McSweeney’s Books), a volume of short stories.

A million people are beating pots and pans outside the White House. I shoot my neighbor and take his Goya.

I belong to the bourgeoisie. I’m done for. I’m thinking “fenestration.”

I keep asking people to pretend that we’re in love, just for the day. No one will agree.

Leaving a party at a club, I go outside and find all…