Short Stories
What if your dreams didn’t end when you woke up?
In Echoes of Dreams, you will find a rich tapestry of short stories that are woven together by the voices of talented writers, each exploring the fragile boundary between dreaming and waking life. These are not gentle, passing visions, but dreams that linger, whispering, reshaping, or, in some cases, dangerously seeping into reality.
In these pages, dreams become doorways: to hidden truths, to alternate lives, to futures that may or may not be imagined. They bend time, blur certainty and challenge the idea that the waking world is ever fully in our control.
Each story offers a different echo, a different perspective, yet all are bound by the same unsettling question. What happens when the subconscious begins to leave its mark on our waking selves? Haunting and thought-provoking, Echoes of Dreams invites you to step into worlds where reality may not be trusted, and where the most powerful forces are born behind closed eyes.
Sleep lightly, be prepared and remember, once in a while dreams do come true – do you recall some of your dreams?
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Although you might be tempted to group the subjects which preoccupy writers into broad categories – love, grief, war, nature and so forth – the truth remains that creative writing is triggered by an infinite variety of moments, thoughts, experiences. Not only do New Contexts’ contributors immerse themselves in this bottomless pool of inspiration, they can also be relied upon to tackle depictions and interpretations of what they find in a myriad of ways.
New Contexts: 8 is no different.
Describing the volume as an anthology of poetry and prose might therefore be seen as belittling the achievements of the writers concerned. In fact, what they are gifting us are widows onto our world; windows of different shapes and sizes, their panes of glass stained in multifarious hues, embossed with designs ranging from the weird to the wonderful.
And because our readers come at the world through their own slant too, it is highly likely that you will find something here – either poetry or prose – which will strike you as ‘just right’…