DREAMS AND DOGS (from “My Life with Dogs”), by Tod Davies.
Irrational? Maybe rationality of a different kind . . .
LAUGHING SAL, by Laura Roman.
Pushing the boundaries of the seen . . .
POL POT’S PURGATORY, by Sean Murphy.
Cruelty suffers unseen . . .
THE RED YOU SEE, by Bruce E.R. Thompson.
What we see is not always what others see . . .
THE STRANGE TALE OF DRS. TUMBLETY & BLACKBURN: OR WHAT’S IN A NAME?, by James C. Clar.
We don’t always remember what happened, as if in a dream . . .
MONKEY’S FINGERS, by Jim Meirose.
As waking life drops through our hands . . .
UKRAINIAN FRUIT STANDS HAVE DISAPPEARED, by JW James.
As do memories . . .
THE SELF-SERVING GIRAFFE, by Matias Travieso-Diaz.
As do all the things of waking life, power, rage, ego, all . . .
THREE HEARTS PUMPING, by Debra Elisa.
Imagination opens the door wide to a new world where we can breathe . . .
A LACANIAN POEM, by Michael T. Smith.
For humans breathe, and androids don’t . . .
ESCAPING THE DREAM, by Cliff Beck.
Some dreams aren’t all they’re cracked up to be . . .
HOURLY, by John Grey.
Some are necessary for ease, of the heart and everything else . . .
MIND SWOOSH, by Bruce Wallick.
After all, who doesn’t love a good dream? . . .
INKLINGS, by Diana Morley.
Escape the cage of present ‘reason’ . . .
TINNITUS, by Edward Johnson.
All that buzzing in the collective head . . .
THE MUSIC OF DREAMS, by Barry Vitcov.
Dreams and music, the higher reason . . .
IMPORTANT AND MUNDANE, by David D. Horowitz.
What dreams you looking at, anyway? . . .
REDWOOD BIRDSONG, by Marissa Bell Toffoli.
Who dreamed Nature into being, we ask you?. . .
The TODBLOG champions the higher rationality of dreams . . . JAM TODAY is in favor of the short and sweet . . .
This issue’s picture is by EAP’s own Mike Madrid, and also happens to be a picture of EAP’s photography editor, Bob Irwin. With a giant elephant.
Next issue is 1 October, the FALL 2026: EMERGING DOUBT issue … contributions by 1 September please…
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