Alhamdulillah, after almost three years of countless rewrites and edits, so much questioning and fears, writing sessions till midnight, wading through the publishing industry, screaming to my sister in both excitement and frustration, my first book is here!!
Thank you so much to everyone who has been there in this journey and waited for this book, I'm so excited (and terrified) to share this with you! 💛
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Art and scripture older than most existing galaxies today can be found all over The Dream Fountain. Depicting a graceful, godlike entity that archaeologists had dubbed "Lady Dream".
While a majority of the text is still left untranslated, they've managed to piece together a small snippet of a story from the many, aged murals dotted around the fountain's surrounding structures.
They could only recover the apparent story about halfway through, though. As a good portion of the glass paintings had been either desecrated or completely destroyed. Whether it was through conscious and malicious actions taken by an aggressive third party, or just time taking it's toll on the sacred ground, they have no idea…
"Lady Dream is, from what we can gather; the Goddess of the Night and the Founder of Dreams and Nightmares. Whose endless tears, brought on by an unknown tragedy lost to time, began to pool into a starry puddle beneath her hunched form as she wept.
And soon enough that puddle became a lake...
And eventually, She soon crumpled down onto the lake's floor and finally closed her teary eyes. Ane as her grief and power slowly melded into one, she began to dream the first and longest dream.
And through her powers, she connected with the universe's many creatures and extended her sleepy delusions of paradise and strange stories to them, created by her now endless sleep. Granting them all the gift of a moment's solace with her from their own troubling existences.
However, the unconscious mind has a way of pulling you back to your pain. A terrible pain.
And it is said that she once had held a dream so fearsome, it birthed a dark horror from the once peaceful fountain of dreams. Tearing through the sky like a black comet of fear and sorrow. Unleashing onto the universe a new kind of terror.
On the rare occasions when Hob is actually mad at Dream— he refuses to sleep. Coffee, energy drinks and the God forsaken awakeness pills? All fair game. If he has to inject caffeine directly into his vein, he would. Hob doesn't often get mad, but when he does, he likes to make a point. Dream and Hob match in more than one ways, really, they do. And so it is that the Dream Lord must come out of his realm personally to sprinkle sand into his lover's eyes because he'd be damned if Hob refuses his gift for more than two nights in a row. Not speaking for 100 years? Easy. Hob refusing sleep? Unacceptable.
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Synopsis: Amir is struggling to keep going everyday and the ongoing conflict is making it worse. But then he meets Yasir, who may not magically give him a will to live, but is there to hold him up while Amir works to get better. Will Amir find the good in life again?
A book about friendship, family, effects of conflict, and hope.
Genre: Contemporary fiction
Themes: Mental health, friendship, conflict
Cw: Suicide ideation, mentions of past character death