CONGRATULATIONS!

Honorable Mention-
Devin Good- The Shallow End

DREAM

I am having a dispute with a former friend, but I have a task assigned to me at this public pool that I’m neglecting because of my anger. It turns out, I was supposed to be watching some children to ensure they don’t drown — but I wasted so much time arguing that one of them drowns and bleeds out in the pool. I try to find blood bags to save him, but he dies in my arms.

Honorable Mention-
Cindy Bishop- Journal (May 2023-January 2026)

DREAM

12/15/23 I dream: I’m looking at my hands breaking open a fortune cookie. It has four fortunes! As I lift one out of the cookie, my fingers tease it apart – two more! Six fortunes! I lift the last one from the cookie and tease it apart, and it is also three! Eight fortunes! I’m so excited. EOD. Context: I had this dream 3 days before receiving results of my uterine cancer biopsy, when I learned that no chemo or radiation was needed. At the time, octopus synchronicities proliferated, so I posited these with the dream in a journal spread.

Honorable Mention-
Aurora May- Goddess of Luminosity

DREAM

This dream occurred during early stages of sleep, and Aurora held details in her mind for a month as she sketched the Goddess, log, moon basket, and light orbs. Trusting the process, the trees and shadowy and light figures appeared while painting the sketch. In this dream, a Goddess balances on a log while collecting light orbs from a giant moon basket, which she then places at the base of the log. Shadowy figures are seen walking along a path towards the mountain of light orbs. Other figures collect orbs and walk into the distance with their newfound light.