Occultober Day 26 Life and Other Dreams by Richard Dee

Occultober Day 26 Life and Other Dreams by Richard Dee

I’m not quite certain that this is truly an Occultober story, but it’s strange enough—shall we say, magical enough, that I thought I would go ahead and include it. It certainly is an excellent story whether it is technically supernatural in nature or not.

 

In fact, it’s two stories in one, mixing an excellent sf tale with a contemporary psychological drama. Rick dreams when he goes to sleep—that sounds pretty ordinary until you realize he’s dreaming another man’s life in extraordinary detail. That man happens to live six hundred years in the future on another planet and beginning to end of the novel, you’ll never be certain if that future is real or not—because the evidence clearly points in both directions.

 

What is clear is that Rick’s jealous wife can’t handle her husband’s dreams and invents a wild fantasy that they are proof that he is being unfaithful to her. She’s a complex and highly manipulative woman who happily takes their marriage off the deep end to validate her delusion. As she wrecks Rick’s life in this world, his dream life faces catastrophe as well. But are the two sets of events connected? And if they are, can Rick save both the women he loves on both planets. I think this one will continue to trouble you after you finish reading it.

 

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