Of Dreams and Nightmares
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Last published Sun, Jun 15, 2025
Iris, a girl with the secret ability to walk amongst the astral, lives an otherwise quiet life with her grandmother and little sister. Guided by her grandmother, a powerful witch, Iris hones her craft, bottling the dreams and nightmares she captures. She studies them and writes about them before releasing the dreams back to the world, the nightmares she keeps hidden. But strange occurrences start to unravel in their town-children go missing, and ghost stories and local legends multiply. As Iris and her friends delve into these eerie mysteries, Iris realizes that these "legends" might be real, especially when she returns home to find the dreams and nightmares she had collected released upon the town. With the fabric between reality and dreams unraveling, Iris must uncover who betrayed her and figure out why before their world is consumed by the dreams and nightmares she once tried to protect.
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