The Dreams Issue
No. 22, winter 2024
Our Dreams issue whisks us into worlds beyond our imaginations, plumbs the depths of our subconscious minds, wrestles with insomnia and dreams undreamed, and revels in the bold aspirations that guide us to greatness, while observing the nightmares that can plague us. In these pages, you’ll experience a sci-fi vision of a future in which dreams are the only way to see the world, question a snake-oil salesmen who is offering access to the minds of distant strangers, and meet a treeman whose dream to have a name of his own sparks consequences that span generations.
Plus, we have a brilliant short story from Maggie Stiefvater in the The Raven Cycle world, a fantastical romantic murder fiction by Bart Nickerson (Yellowjackets, Narcos), phenomenal poetry by Faylita Hicks and Jeannine Hall Gailey, and a comic about chasing (and seizing) your dreams by the legendary Kelly Sue DeConnick. There’s even a gorgeous special feature created in partnership with Lamp Lifeboat Ladder.
Whatever your dreams, hallucinations, or fantasies… Whatever your restless visions and twilight terrors, the 22nd issue of F(r)iction is sure to entrance, dazzle, and leave you wondering if what you’ve just read was a work of fiction or some divine missive projected from the mind’s eye of an always slumbering architect…
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In this issue:
- Editor’s Note, Words By Dani Hedlund, Art By Koby Griggs
- The Mystery of Dreaming, Words By Maribel Leddy, Art By Shan Bennion
- I Had A Dream About You, Words By Ross Showalter, Art By Braden Maxwell
- Mandatory Dreaming, Words By Carrie Lee South, Art By Kayla Rader
- 3:01, Words By Jennifer Wortman, Art By Lia Liao
- Pur Autre Vie, Words By Chris Panatier, Art By Koby Griggs
- Three Poems, Words By Jeannine Hall Gailey, Art By Tyler Champion
- The Last Fugu House of Shimonoseki, Words By Y. M. Pang, Art By Dannie Niu
- Two Poems, Words By Faylita Hicks, Art By Isabel Burke
- Recurring, Words By Maggie Stiefvater, Art By Hailey Renee Brown
- Velcro, Words By Jenn Lee, Art By Kayla Rader
- The Forgotten, Words By Nick Farrant, Art By Daniel Reneau
- The Seeds of Dreams, Words By Amin, Thege Mungu, Naomie Ndongala Okito, Nasrin Soltan, Art By Hailey Renee Brown
- The Gradual Disappearance of John Surly Whittaker, Words By Andrew Hayes Williams, Art By Braden Maxwell
- Three Poems, Words By Laurel Roth, Art By Hailey Renee Brown
- Shape Made of Memories, Words By Bart Nickerson, Art By Daniel Reneau