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Horror/Scary: November 08, 2017 Issue [#8588]

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 This week: Revenants of a Dream
  Edited by: Kate - Writing & Reading Author IconMail Icon
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About This Newsletter

Here we are, in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
Kurt Vonnegut

All that I see or seem is but a dream within a dream
Edgar Alan Poe


         Incite the muse creative to plumb the depth and breadth of that which thrills with chills even in the heat of day ~ Come explore with us that which incites fear ~ the unknown venue that we find when we dream.


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Letter from the editor

Greetings,

         In Your Dreams - how often have you said that, or heard it said, with sarcasm. Perhaps when you know (or think you know) someone's lying about an accomplishment or adventure. But look at it another way - what if it's true. What if the phrase, like many others, is derived from reality, before the corrective actions of our sanitizing global 'economization' invalidates effort, denigrates the creative force, creating psychological (perhaps actual) zombies. Where but in our dreams can we engage the terrors that lie within or without our mortal realm?.

         Pop psychology touts dreams as safety valves for innate violence and aggression of our species. It's only humankind that kills or tortures for pleasure, is it not? In our dreams we can be empowered and best the beast within - and without. We also supposedly use only 10 or so percent of our brains in daily existence, so the other 90+% is where we create and travel and perhaps encounter horrors outside daily discourse.

         I don't hold with the psychobabble (to any psychologists in our midst, pardon me but here I don't need to be pc) - we are not the only sentient beings on this planet either as residents or visitors. In our dreams we can explore what we dare not give breath to in the daily mundane and, if we're lucky, best the beasts.

         By dreams, I speak also of daydreams. Perhaps you've relished the ozone aroma as cellphones tattoo themselves into the cheeks of a busload of babbling banshees caught beneath the sizzling live wires of a broken utility pole. Perhaps the train station's dead end is a real 'dead' end, the exit leading to another plane (not airplane), and you have to get off before the train stops, somehow.

         Or maybe ... fill in your own dark, terrifying vision. And you have a horror story fit to write, and share with your readers.

         Consider, perhaps, a vintner substituting a cheap wine for a quality one, which is then served at a special dinner to the guests' gastronomical mortification. After he slept it off, could one of the guests have dreamed the Cask of Amontillado. If Poe left such a note, we'll likely never know, but you see where I'm coming from. Empower your darkest dreams (and daydreams) in a horror story or verse. Your readers will get it, and you'll sleep well, with the incubus of the story off your chest, or not?

Until we next meet,
Dream On *Sleep*
Write On *Pencil*

Kate
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         Thank you for this safe respite from the realm of dreams ~ or are we in the dream ~~ thanks for sharing the exploration.

         Until we next meet, may your dreams end with safe wakefulness ~ in the mundane, everyday world ~ their revenants fodder for tales of terror in prose and verse.

Write On!
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