bliumchik | Fragrant Spring Onion Sauce Explodescow Son

An odd dream from a few days ago.

I was chasing a large china doll around a field. It started beeping really fast and shrilly, and then exploded, causing me to die. I went back to the last save point, and this time prodded it with a stick to keep it at a distance. There was a wall that prevented me from leaving the field, and a really tall guy reached down and helped me over it.

Then we were walking along a sort of really long pier from nowhere that zigzagged up and down and had random stairs. Except the POV switched and I was the guy. Anyway, there was something evil in the water and we were wondering if it was a shark. Then the pier finished up above a bunch of white houses in a bay surrounded by cliffs. Near one of the cliffs, a young couple were skinny dipping. The evil thing in the water lifted them up with a sort of black force that did head-snappy unpleasant things, and then turned the boy's heart into an apple.

Then it turned their bodies into funeral barges with offerings and things, and the bodies covered by cloths so nobody could tell how they'd died. The barges floated down till they were caught by a quasi-egyptian civilisation that made a living off this sort of thing. It was kind of like a necropolis, all their clothes came from the dead etc. Anyway, there was a guy there who was Simon tam from Firefly, only a writer and not a doctor. He'd been transplanted from our world into that one. He was sitting at a dinner table with a bucnh of necropolis men, one of whom was kind of Wash. When Simon mentioned he wrote fiction, they all laughed and Wash said "I went through a fiction phase when I was in college". Simon said "Really?" And then it dawned on him that if he was in a fictional world, they might have fiction about our world, so he asked "Have you ever heard of an ellipse?" And Wash said, "Yeah, I read a book about that once..."

There were a few more of those questions, and then another guy picked up the apple from the boat and said "Oh, this is a big one". He got a pen-knife and cut into it, then dug his fingers into the crack and pulled open the apple with a crunching sound.

Its core was the spine of a fish.

That's all I remember, but I am so using that final image in something.

Also, a meme:
Give me any pairing (from a fandom I know about, please - feel free to ask if you're not sure) a one-word theme (object, place, thought, feeling), and I'll write you a one-line story.

EDIT: I have 444 entries! *waves leetle flag*