Tim, #2, is amazing, a nice teaser. I like seeing these, we can see a part of your process.

Tim needs a Ficly.

3. seems to have a poetic slant to it, ever think of forming it into a poem?

Keeping each line to a four count:

In my dreamings 4
I saw a man 4
Without a face 4
That wasn’t there. 4

In my dreamings 4
He was a ghost 4
Made up of ? 4
But more than air 4

That actually reminds me. #3 I think came from the movie ‘Identity’. The line from that 2003 movie is “As I was going up the stairs, I met a man who wasn’t there. He wasn’t there again today. I wish, I wish he’d go away.” I guess it must have stuck with me. I didn’t remember that until you put it poem form.

I like #1. It would need a little work to illustrate where the transition from child to uncaring mother occurs. I imagine it could be something to the effect of an uncared-for-child becomes an uncaring-mother – or something along those lines.