About two years ago I had a dream that involved, among other things, twin boys "played" by Neil and Todd that were my sons, and I called them "my gosling children." It stuck with me in a way that most dreams don't, and I kept thinking about the boys and the plot of the dream, which had to do with flight and finding them after a long separation. Later I asked someone to make an icon of the two of them with 'goslings' on it.

Much later, I used the dream as the base of the end product of my creative writing class.