The Dream Master
A futuristic psychotherapist enters patients’ dreams to heal them, then risks everything when a blind aspiring shaper becomes his patient.
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The Divine Invasion
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Ice
An unnamed narrator pursues a fragile woman through a collapsing, ice-choked world where reality keeps slipping away.
Empire of the Senseless
In a near-future Paris, two outlaw lovers—a pirate and a cyborg—drift through revolution, violence, and fractured desire.
Black Wave
A queer writer in 1990s California battles addiction, love, and a looming apocalypse while blurring life into fiction.