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Eighteen-year-old Isla lives in Naudiz, a historical reenactment community in a future America. Contracted by the government to perform the traditions of her Mennonite ancestors for tourists, she loves her family but wonders where life could take her.
A new schoolteacher spots Isla's potential as a CREIA cadet, making her one of many girls recruited to visit the closely guarded Library of Ages. There are rumors that girls who go to the CREIA never return, but Isla is armed with a powerful tincture from her brother's workshop and has her best friend Esme by her side.
She soon learns the dark secrets hidden in the CREIA's beautiful campus. The girls are assessed for a sinister destiny and forced to become dream addicts, forever lost in a hallucinogenic reality. When it seems there is no hope left, Isla's connection to nature and the chance at a new love reveal that the key to the future lies in the past. Sifting among the ruins, she finds herself standing up to answer the question all Citizens want to know: Where will they go as the Earth begins to heal from environmental destruction, growing into a lush land full of promise?
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Tales from the Dream Zone
Tales from the Dream Zone
Fly away to remembered dreams, twists of fate, ghostly apparitions, or far off moons, sift through the grains of the sandman’s dreamscape. Who can tell what you will find in the dark? Travel to another lifetime in fantastical or remembered dreams, but will you come home again?
A mind-bending second collection of award-winning short stories from fourteen new voices in international short fiction through Flying Ketchup Press ® "The Dream Keeper" by Leah Kuntz, "Barely Human" by Patrik Borosky, "The Vice Versa" by Angelique Fawns, "Sunday Afternoon Cocktails" by Ashley Memory, "Godflash" by Anne-Marie Yerks, "Little Moons" by Jacqueline Kenny, "One of Us" by Con Chapman, "In the Editing Room" by Masha Kamenetskaya, "Wishes" by Sandra Gould Ford, "Tethered" by Jeremy Schnee, "Dream Connections" by Alice G. Waldert, "Light of my Afterlife" by A.A. Rubin, "Mist at Twilight" by Brian Burt and Tangled Tale by KÄ“vin Callahan.
Dream Junkies
Dream Junkies
Three women come together in Chicago with a plan to make it big in Manhattan, but the shared dream takes each one down a different path. Daphne abandons her art studies to try her luck as a model, but she needs cash fast. Kristen's starring role in a TV show seems like an easy break, but she's a recovering bulimic and the producers want her to lose ten pounds. Both have been signed by Pavia, a demanding but endearing entertainment agent with a hidden agenda. Can she protect the girls from the city's evils and take them to the heights of stardom, collecting the fat checks that will earn her boss's affection? As Pavia's plan falls apart, Kristin and Daphne are alone in the urban jungle, their friendship strained by the unsettling realities of fame. Struggling through auditions, the casting couch, and the men they love, they're brought together again in the understanding that—ultimately—the hardest part to play is yourself.
Winner of the 2016 New Rivers Press Electronic Book Series Award, "Dream Junkies" is a funny and touching multi-narrator novel set in modern-day New York.
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