In The Alien Buddha’s Dreams is made of 183 pages of sweet revelations and spicy night terrors. This lucid, looping collection from 28 dreamers is a cosmic and liminal nocturnal emission of fiction, poetry, and prose.
In “A False Bright Joy” by Kendra Augustin, life’s a dystopian drag when they vaporize your best friend for no good reason. What’s even real anyway? Might as well rebel.
4 poems by Clarabelle Miray Fields, including one devoted to witch-mother, goddess, and guide Hekate.
The Rest of the Dream by Dorthy LaVern McCarthy shadows Marion throughout a bizarre nightmare when she lets go of a plane wing in her recurring dream.
In Wallace Alton’s “Surprise-Surprise,” a man is imprisoned in his apartment by a repetitive entity, trapped in a cigarette-smoking, shoe-shining loop.
In “dream sequence” by Jack Giaour, the narrator has a penis, magic, and money.
Nature, memory, and surreal landscapes intertwine with poetry from Cosmic Birch, Aishwaria Laxmi, Alan Hardy, James Benger, Lynn White, Linda M. Crate, and many others.
A preview of Nighttime Logic by Damon Hubbs, his new chapbook from Alien Buddha Press, a restlessly unstable portrait of relationships, artistic purpose, and death.
“Ice Cream With The Dead” by Joseph Farley follows Liam, who is tasked with serving ice cream to dead people and helping them with their problems.
“Melatonin 2:03” by Lemmy Winegardner follows a haunted wildcard trapped in increasingly surreal layers of dreams and waking reality, where a mysterious third exit leads him back home.
Finally, “The Secret Destiny of Michigan” by James Schwartz blends memoir, mysticism, UFO lore, and Michigan history.
All this, and much more! Don’t sleep on this collection.
