by John Crowley
First published 2024
Dreams blur into reality as the narrator moves through a series of nocturnal experiences that refuse to stay contained within sleep. Each dream carries its own logic and emotional weight, from encounters with strangers who feel familiar to journeys through landscapes that shift between memory and imagination. The collection traces how these seventy-nine visions accumulate into something larger than their individual parts. Some dreams repeat with variations, others arrive once and vanish completely. The narrator begins to question which experiences belong to sleep and which to consciousness, as the dreams start to inform daily life in unexpected ways. What emerges is a meditation on how the mind processes experience, memory, and desire through the strange theater of sleep.
Genres: fiction, literary-fiction, magical-realism, 21st-century
Vibes: atmospheric, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: unreliable-narrator
95 pages · Paperback · Ninepin Press