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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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“Fork in the Road” by Yakov Grinshpun

Submitted to Contest #113

A Fork in the Road When you come to a fork in the road, take it. Yogi Berra Until it started, I lived a normal life --wife, two children, nice house, good job; nothing exciting. It brought a little excitement in the beginning, but when it continued night after night, I began to worry. Although I told myself, it’s a dream, just a dream, telling this didn’t help much. It seemed the day before the dreams began was the last day of happiness I would ever have. When I woke and opened my eyes, I immediately narrowed and then shut them. I didn...

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“A transparent life” by Laura Ros

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It's cold and rough, and his stride is hurried because he knows that at the end of the aisle, on the right, life awaits him. Barefoot on the tiles, he feels the cream streaks under every step. He never touched the wooden slats on the sides, but he knows they are fine and the wood should not be like this. Take a step to the side to avoid the wheelchair. His gaze is aimed at the final destination, which does not prevent him from noticing, with the corner of his eye, the round white clock on the wall: three thirty, as always. The white, sliding...

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“The Other Place” by Danielle Wagner

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Dear Diary, Captain’s Log… April 14, 2018: I traveled again last night. I can’t put a number to the times it’s now happened. But last night was significant. Or, at least, significant enough that I feel it’s finally time to start putting it all down. Regardless of how I feel about traveling, it keeps happening and I can’t continue to ignore it any longer.  And who knows how many details I’ve missed out on over the years from not writing it all down. I should have started journaling the first time it happened.  Oh well...I ca...

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“By Moonlight” by Cat Buoncore

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The moonlight leaks through the planks of this ruined house. When the wind blows terribly and the shutters rattle their discontent I watch silver droplets dance across the floor. I have been still too long already, but I cannot bring myself to depart. I have almost been there; I have dreamt that long, cool grove where my brothers stand, proud and tall. The men circle me, here in this desolate place, as I seek my echoes. They walk dangerous roads to avoid my little house. The stillest among them watch me—always from a distance—and speak i...

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“John's site” by Katrina Barrett

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John’s site                John looked around as he walked through his home. Everything had a weird glow to it. He turned around and a man was standing in the door way. The man was dress in a black suit with dark glasses. John rube his eyes. He thought he had to be dreaming. The last thing he remember is sitting in front of the TV and thinking he was tired.                The ma...

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“Message from a dream.” by F.O. Morier

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It seemed as if all the children in her circle of friends were born in the same month. Over the last week, she received as many as three invitations. She loved children, but three parties so close together was a bit much. She couldn´t explain why it made her so uneasy this year. Lately, her mind seemed to want to dive into unknown depths. It was familiar territory; she had been there a few times before. She had worked very hard to forget the darkness, but no matter how hard she tried; it kept creeping up. All kinds of strange ideas kept inva...

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“To Burn or to Live.” by Kay Lesley Reeves

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  I was falling. The drop seemed to go on for ever. There was an old belief that, if you remembered hitting the ground, you would be dead. How would you know if you were dreaming? A paradox indeed. I was yet to experience even a bumpy landing but there was always an element of uncertainty.    I was still falling, and the ground beneath me had a solidarity that I did not want to encounter. Gravity was suddenly the most important force in my existence. It began to appear that a grave was the most likely out...

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“The Dream of Eternal Joy” by V. S. Gerrans

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My father was but a humble farmer, and I knew nothing of my mother. I never took to farming, but the little reading and writing I was taught at the parish school quickly gave me a voracious taste for literature, extending my view of the world far beyond what I perceived anyone around me knew.It was a fateful coincidence then, that I was the one to discover a grimoire buried underneath the cellar, the distinct shape of which stuck out at me from the earth below as I was fixing the floorboards one day. My father advised me to dispose of the ho...

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“Welcoming Portals of Dreams” by Sheila Sarrett

Submitted to Contest #113

Sherri was an adorable six-year-old girl with curly blonde hair and rosey cheeks who loved to hold books in her hand and was always smiling and laughing. Her mother enjoyed reading stories to her but she seemed to like more of the stories she made up herself. If her teacher told her she was talking out of turn Sharri would tell her mother a story about a girl who talked too much. One day her mother read a story to her about a princess who was looking for a friend. Sherri thought about that story but was sleepy so she was sleeping before her ...

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“Caitlyn's Dream” by Mary Fitzgerald

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  Caitlyn Ryan didn't dream like everyone else. Most people hoped for pleasant dreams as their head it the pillow. Caitlyn hoped for normal ones. The first time it happened, she was just sixteen years old. She went to sleep as she usually did but had the strangest dream. She drifted through a midnight blue star-filled universe. This was not an unusual dream for her except for the portals that appeared seemingly at random. The strange thing about it was that they would disappear as soon as she passe...

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“If I should die before I wake” by Edward Savage

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The side air-bag pushed me to the left and then the steering wheel bag punched me in the face and chest. My head slammed back into the headrest and that was all I really remembered for sometime. There were images that flickered like an old film and sounds that were faint one moment and blaring the next but nothing coherent just a jumbled montage of sensations. Then things settled down and the noise and the images faded, replaced by a deep unyielding blackness. I was aware, but with the lack of any sensation I honestly thought I was dead, th...

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“Delirium or Dream” by Richard Kroyer

Submitted to Contest #113

Kyle rests back into the hospital pillow and lets out a sigh.  “The doctor wants to keep an eye on that temperature of yours.” his wife says. “How do you feel?”  “I’m comfortable now, Sara. A little sleepy, I think or…” “Kyle, the nurse gave you something to help bring the fever down because it was so high. She said you might drift in and out before it comes down. The nurse told you all that before, but you just rest easy. I’ll be here when you wake.” “Okay, sounds good. I’ll just close my eyes for a bit then.” Kyle’s breathing soo...

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“Zaleria, Dreamwalker” by Nazira Ali

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I fell asleep again. I've been up for the past 3 days. The first day I was jittery from the obscene amounts of coffee I had drunk. The second I felt like I would fall over if anyone breathed on me. The third was when I started to see stars appear in the day, my hair greasy and unkempt, looking like a bird's nest, being the right color and everything. I'd seen how my eyes looked more red than caramel that they usually were. Everyone was worried for me but I’d appear crazy had I told anyone about the dreams. Normally when I walk in my dreams, ...

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“Emma's Best Nightmare” by Judith McRae

Submitted to Contest #113

Petunia Mae (Emma) Johnson was exhausted from yet another day of police interviews (a weekly event, now), trying to determine what had become of her only child, her son, Ryan, who had simply vanished from the care of his babysitter on Good Friday, April 2nd, at 2:47 pm, at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Good Counsel, just five blocks away from the house. Their devoutly Catholic Filipina babysitter had taken him with her to their Good Friday service, hoping to transmit something of her faith to the boy. Emma didn’t mind this - she had no r...

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“Dreamer’s Dilemma” by Laura Holley

Submitted to Contest #113

I’ve changed a lot of lives in seventeen years, mostly for the better. So you’d think I’d be used to this. But today’s client was younger than usual, and I don’t even think she knew what she wanted. “So, tell me a little about yourself.”A piece of magenta hair fell forward from behind her ear as she fidgeted with a mood ring on her hand. “Well—not really much to tell. Name’s Shanty. Thirteen. I guess I’m pretty typical. Go to school, chill with friends, do some gaming, stuff like that.”“And how long have you been in foster care?”And—up—...

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