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Write about a character whose dreams are portals to other worlds.

Posted in Science Fiction on Nov 1, 2022

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✍️ 54 stories

“Out of the Blue” by Bonnie Jay

⭐️ Shortlisted for Contest #113

Liv was tired. Goddam bone-tired.  Another day on the lines and her eyes were aching like sagging balloons, ready to burst from the strain required to just stay employed at that dump. She laced her fingers together and pushed her arms above her head as she came to the end of her daily slog to the bus stop. The movement rewarded her with a series of satisfying pops along her cramped joints. The bench at the bus stop was hard and damp, mildew curled around the edges. But, her aching legs demanded rest.  She pictured a plump, squas...

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“Portals Through the Fabric of Castine” by Elizabeth Fenley

Submitted to Contest #113

“Portals Through the Fabric of Castine” by Elizabeth Fenley Lenonirie, her Unseelie head tucked under her arm, and Ritassa the Kelpie hovered over the human whose dreams had unexpected consequences. In the middle of the dream, she twitched and murmured incoherently. A dinner plate sized portal appeared in the wall over her head. Small objects on the nightstand were sucked into it before Lenonirie closed it with a word from her severed head and a flick of her free hand. The Wedgewood blue paint returned to its proper place. The woman sig...

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“The Moon Girl” by Andrew Sweet

Submitted to Contest #113

Corpulent flakes defy gravity, swinging like obese dancers in pirouettes as blades of the winter winds slice through my tan army coat, coming to rest on a conspicuous gap between two trees, each of which seem nearly as old as New York City itself. I fish the watch out of my pocket, hidden there because the strap had fallen off before I found it in the autumn leaves months before. At least it still keeps time mostly. Three seconds to go before Central Park finally sees something worth talking about, but the only person here to bear witness t...

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“See You in My Dreams” by Greg Gillis

Submitted to Contest #113

           Jeremy always had a vivid imagination, though he did not realize until later in life, how this would impact the world around him.            Even as a child, Jeremy would insist to his parents that he had visited a vast array of people while he dreamt at night. His parents, of course, believed that his dreams were nothing more than an active imagination, until one morning, while at the breakfast table, Jeremy described a d...

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“Awake” by Shane Ransom

⭐️ Shortlisted for Contest #113

She fought against the pull toward consciousness, preferring to bask in the vague happiness that lived in the gauzy space between wakefulness and dreams. She held the glow, which was already slipping away, for as long as she could before succumbing, inevitably, to the pull of the world beyond her own mind. Gray, she thought as her eyes fluttered open. It was always the first thing she noticed. It was one of the only things to notice really, the grayness. The walls, the floor, the ceiling, her clothes, all of it the same lifeless shade. She s...

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“Somnia Addicta” by Brandi Sellers

⭐️ Shortlisted for Contest #113

When my body surrenders to sleep, colors, smells and sounds coalesce. Magic grows from possibility to certainty. The intangible parts of my soul manifest into wondrous creatures and people and landscapes.  Tonight, it manifests you. I’ve dreamed of such encounters before--strangers who know me better, love me better, than anyone in the waking light. So when your lips meet mine, I relish the sensation without restraint, worry, or guilt. Your caresses aren’t real. Your desire isn’t real. Such things never are. But I can feel you under ...

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“Lunescence” by Shiloh Ord

Submitted to Contest #113

You know when adults tell you that you should probably think before you do? At times, they're not wrong.The rain beat down on the hood of my car, feeling the warm heat coming from the vents coupled with the lingering smell of cigarettes gave me this weird feeling of invincibility. I'm young, I'm brilliant, and I'm invincible! At least for the moment. Driving home from the party that night seemed easy enough, I hadn't had much to drink and we only lived a quick two minutes away, what could go wrong?Just as the thought entered my brain the uni...

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“Tommy LaFontaine” by Jude S. Walko

Submitted to Contest #113

CW: drug dependency, suicideTommy LaFontaine had always dreamt of going to other dimensions. No, he literally always dreamt of going to other worlds, and every time he did, he learned something new.For example, did you know there's a place where books read people? They have libraries instead of homes, and rather than dying they become overdue. The entire world is literal, right off the page... so they find the unpredictability and emotional outbursts of humans, quite entertaining. Their leader's name is Dewey Decimal, and they live a very or...

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“Programmed into the Netherworld” by Bob Faszczewski

Submitted to Contest #113

                        Programmed into the Netherworld      Tom Jepson worked hard as a project manager for Apex Computer Consulting. In fact, every one of his many clients would rely solely on Tom’s expertise. If he had taken one of the extremely infrequent vacations he took during his two-decade tenure at Apex, his clients would endanger the success of important projects rather than entrust ope...

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“It's All In Wonderland” by Jackie Streich Schoening

Submitted to Contest #113

 Hi, I'm Mila. I'm a 13 year old teen in ninth grade.  Now, I sounds like a normal human teen and, I am, until something happened that changed my life forever Keep reading to find out more about me and how things became really weird. It was a normal day in my high school hallways. Drama,gossip and more.I was on my way to Ms. Smith’s English class and dropping my bff’s (Lila and Lia) off at Mrs. Miller's math class. As I got closer and closer to Ms. Smith’s classroom I wondered more and more what we would be doing that day. I go...

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“Heather of the Moors” by Cindy Calder

Submitted to Contest #113

Her name was Heather, like the heather that was scattered endlessly across the beautiful moors. The moors of Dartmoor called to Heather, both in her waking hours and her dreams. Each night they beckoned as she slept in the comfortable bed that had once belonged to her parents. And each morning as she awoke, the smell of heather and a fine mist seemed to permeate throughout the room, although she knew well enough that it was merely the remnants of her dreams that lingered so. Born in the year of 1908, Heather had been named for the lovely...

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“The Kitchen’s Brew. ” by Lufuno Mavhungu

Submitted to Contest #113

The brew had been cooking for 2 months. Every night I meticulously added one more ingredient into the blackened, cast-iron pot. The stone-wall kitchen became the place I spent most of my nights. A sage coloured coal stove sat awkwardly against the wall, with a chimney that extended outside the kitchen. Whenever I came here I added more ingredients into the brew. A brew whose recipe was given to me by a spiritualist. One thing I noticed about being in the kitchen is that I weighed much less than I actually do and I was always wearin...

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“The Message” by Gita Rash

Submitted to Contest #113

Sarah was exhausted and lay down in bed, tired, weary, and spent with pulling staples from the wooden boards most of the day. As she tried to relax, she couldn’t help but think of how different her life would be if her and Ed had chosen the beach front condo instead. They could be enjoying cool breezes and warm sunshine year-round with zero maintenance on their part. Sarah’s husband Ed had been harboring this deep yearning to buy a grand old Victorian mansion. After years of convincing Sarah that he could refurbish an old mansion and flip it...

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“Dream Sequence ” by Salahuddin Ayyubi

Submitted to Contest #113

John Paul was ogling at his computer screen while typing something on it. He was shaking his head in a few seconds interval and rubbing his eyes with the backside of his hand. Dark circles were visible underneath his eyes. He stopped typing and looked all around. All other people were busy with their respective desktops in their seats. John closed his eyes and rested his head over his hand on the desk. Soon he was snoring faintly. A bright moon was perceptible in the sky. There was no cloud. Stars were twinkling and along with the moon tryi...

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“LA SOÑADORA DE PARQUE OCHENTA (THE DREAMER OF 80TH STREET PARK)” by Nicole Spiegel-Gotsch

Submitted to Contest #113

Frankie placed her palm on the sacred eye and waited. Standing in silent communion with the scarred stump, she lost track of time. The park, brimming with activity—families barbecuing, kids on their bikes, volleyball and basketball games in full swing on the courts—shimmered and faded away. A sensation came over her, like a low level signal coming up from the roots buried deep in the layers of sparse grass, earth, and concrete. Was this finally it? Would this be the moment she had been waiting for? One beat, then another, then . . . nothing...

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