Letter from the Editors

Dearest dreamers,

When we sleep our brain does some audio-visual gymnastics to help us understand ourselves. But more often than not, our dreams don’t just stop when we wake up.

We gave you a bottle of metaphorical sleepytime tea and asked you to report back. In return you gave us dreams by the pillowful. Thank you for crushing the sand from the corners of your eyes and using that to ink your nightmares for us. Reading all of your submissions kept us awake at night, in the best of ways.

In this issue you’ll find desires and dreams in all shapes and sizes. We appreciate you continuing this journey through our collective minds with us.

After you finish reading this issue we would ask you to turn your attention away from the ever-changing dreamscapes that haunt us and to begin to think of another changing time in history: that of the western–a time of outlaws and sheriffs, of humans versus nature, of new technologies and strange lands.

Giddyup!

DO Editors

(Cover art contest winner: Kevin Sampsell)

AJD – Protection
Kummam Al-Maadeed – The Anchor
Andy Anderson – Imagine, Only in My Dreams
Mickey Collins – Japan Dream
Alexander Demitrus – Short Story
L. Fid – Wrong Elevator
Desmond Everest Fuller – Our Lost Map
Krystina Halford – Achromatic
Ryan Hall – The Wet Feather
Dan Heise – A Quick Personal Tour of My Dreams
Ula Jankowska – Circus Chicken
Ariel Kusby – Spring Equinox
Ryan Shane Lopez – Shadows Doth Make Bright
Leanna Moxley – The Dream About an Evil Queen
Elizabeth Neal – Lucy
Oaktea – ART
Timothy Arliss O’Brien – I have a dream.
Spencer Pond – Photos
Carole Reichstein – Skin
Mike Santiago – Heroes Don’t Exist
Kevin Sampsell – You Okay
Ben Talley – Lullaby
Jonathan van Belle – It Dreams
Geoff Wallace – Moneymaker, Roll Under, The Bleak, The Sea of Transformation, All you do in Hell is…
Z.B. Wagman – Wrinkles and Calluses
Nicholas Yandell – The Wraith
没有人 (Translated by Michael Feral) – 杀梦爱蒙 (Dream of Love Killing)

Editorial

Editor-In-Chief: Bobby Eversmann
Managing Editor: Ariel Kusby
Prose: Mickey Collins & Bobby Eversmann & Z.B. Wagman & Amanda Pecora
Poetry: Ariel Kusby
Social Media: Ariel Kusby & Caroline McCulloch
Web Design: Robert Eversmann
Interior Design: Mickey Collins
Cover Design: Kevin Sampsell