Family Gathering

I was picked up by the head earlier, but this time by one leg and dropped hard into the middle of the living room. I sat there for a long time just looking at the flocked wallpaper and then a lady in a bright red dress joined me. She sat quietly, expression-less, staring straight at me with her legs opened in a "V" and her back straight and stiff. Then, suddenly two little kids and a dog joined us. A boy, about ten and a girl about five. The dog was solid black. His mouth was open as if to bark, but I couldn't hear anything, only the adenoidal breathing of the little girl playing with her doll house and creating her own little family gathering in the living room of her tiny cardboard house.