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Dreams and Nightmares has finally returned from the printer. It took more than two weeks longer than the 2-5 days it usually takes. Here's what happened. Someone, possibly a student, was given the task of bringing the printed copies the 4 blocks from the print shop, as usual They didn't show up, and at first I imagined several reasons to explain their condition of no-appearance. Sickness, heavy workload, holiday, equipment failure, invisibility, and the most likely: delivery to the wrong place. The print shop had sent them out, via a carrier whose identity was unrecalled. They had no delivery ticked & no box of zines. They are supposed to bring them to my office. If I'm not there, they give them to the person next door. Occasionally, packages for me end up in the next bldg., where official packages go. Not this time. Many people don't understand that the Geological Survey & the Geology Dept. of the university are not one and the same. Not this time. The main Survey bldg. is Jones Hall, but there is another Jones Hall. That one's 3 miles away, downtown. No. So, the box of zines has never been found. They had to reprint them. The new box showed up late Friday afternoon. DN 111 goes in the mail Monday or Tuesday. The original box will probably surface the next day.

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Dreams and Nightmares 111 (January, 2019)

Contents

Allen K. cover

From the Brain Stem

Denny Marshall, Four-legged Alien

Holly Lyn Walrath, An Unknowing Breach of the Law

Lauren McBride, "New Earth's many moons"

David Lunde, Do Not Address Your Gods

Sandra Lindow, Sex and the Theory of Everything

Ann K. Schwader, "Voyager outbound"

Robert Borski, Tower of Babel (redux)

Ken Poyner, The Anachronism's Lament

Marge Simon, Infiltration

Deborah L. Davitt, Under the Ice

C.R. Harper, "Feast of St. George"

Wade German, Somniloquy

David C. Kopaska-Merkel & Kendall Evans, "rain-slick streets run"

G. O. Clark, Production Values

Vince Gotera, To the Solar System

Steve Rasnic Tem, The Night Arrives

Allen K., illo

Oliver Smith, Waiting for Gretel

F. J. Bergmann, Finale

Vince Gotera, All-Father

Denny Marshall, Oval Sphinxes

Holly Day, The Wheel

Robert Frazier, My Wife in the Bush of Ghosts

Marie Vibbert, On the Blackrock Road

Bruce McAllister, Turtle Man

Denny Marshall, Orbiting Spheres

F. J. Bergmann, With Benefits

$5 print; $1 pdf, $90 lifetime sub print (includes all available back issues; about 10); $39 lifetime sub, pdf (includes nearly every back issue). Paypal to jopnquog@gmail.com, or check made out to David Kopaska-Merkel, 1300 Kicker Rd., Tuscaloosa AL 35404

DN is the oldest extant speculative poetry zine, except for Star*line