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    Dreaming of Her and Other Stories
    Dreaming of Her and Other Stories
    Dreaming of Her and Other Stories
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    Dreaming of Her and Other Stories

    By Thea van Diepen

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    Be prepared to enter a vast array of worlds. Each one contains echoes of our own, but never enough to be comfortable. Never enough to be entirely familiar; never enough to be entirely safe. As you enter into the stories and poems of this collection, you will discover that reality goes farther than what we can see, and further than we have ever known.

     

    Read, among many others, the story of the life of a river as he discovers his true self, a poetic retelling of Daphne's flight from Apollo, and, in the titular story, a literal nightmare as a girl comes to terms with the death of her sister.

     

    It's time to go down the rabbit hole.

     

    "poetic, beautifully written and profound"
    ~Lewinna Solwing, on "Who is the River?"

     

    "Starting into [Dreaming of Her and Other Stories] is like stepping through a gateway into another world… I found myself waiting for some subtle twist to shift my understanding."
    ~Erin Kurup, creator of the websites Remade by Hand and Erin Reads"

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThea van Diepen
    Release dateSep 12, 2012
    ISBN9780991699308
    Dreaming of Her and Other Stories
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    Thea van Diepen

    Thea van Diepen spent the first ten years of her life on a tree-wrapped acreage where an inquisitive child might believe in magic. Nowadays, she lives in a small city in Alberta, breathing life into characters and worlds and the stories they tell.  She’s been published in the Tesseracts anthology series, and her works include the White Changeling series, The Kitten Psychologist series, and the interactive short story The Tree and the Grave. Her website is theavandiepen.com, and she can be contacted via that site, in English or French. If you do contact her in French, though, please don’t ask her to count in it as she tends to skip numbers ending in six entirely by accident.

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