Dream World

audiobook

Dream World

by R. A. Lafferty

EN·~13 minutes·1 chapter

Chapters

1 total

13:39

Description

A routine morning takes a dark turn when a healthy, upbeat man wakes up feeling inexplicably miserable. A vivid, nightmarish vision clings to him—grotesque rain that smells of profanity, a world where people look like twisted versions of themselves, and a sense that everything is fundamentally wrong. The dream is so oppressive that it colors his thoughts even as he pours multiple juices and orders a modest breakfast.

Desperate for clarity, he turns to two strangers at a local diner, Teresa and Agnes, who seem to share fragments of the same unsettling reverie. Their baffling conversation—about green rain, monstrous mothers, and absurd food orders—blurs the line between nightmare and reality, pulling him deeper into the mystery. As he tries to piece together the fragments, the story balances eerie surrealism with a dry, off‑beat humor, inviting listeners to wonder how far a dream can reach into the waking world.

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Language

en

Duration

~13 minutes (13K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

Release date

2016-04-06

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

R. A. Lafferty

R. A. Lafferty

1914–2002

A late-blooming original, this Oklahoma writer brought tall-tale energy, Catholic imagination, and a wonderfully offbeat voice to science fiction and fantasy. His stories can feel funny, mythic, and startling all at once.

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