Dreams and Heresies

Six short works of speculative fiction that explore the farthest reaches of dream, myth and spirituality: a computer artist and a Kabbalist build a virtual-reality Tree of Life, with mind-bending consequences; an outlandishly disfigured stranger adopted by a small New England town struggles to remember his otherworldly past; two fairytale kingdoms go to war over a mysterious mirror from the dawn of creation; a trendy photographer gets a gig documenting the powerful (and bloody) rites of ancient sacrificial god-kings; and more tales from beyond the fringes of orthodoxy.