Sleepwalkers
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"Are you happy with your life?" Maggie-Leigh asked, breaking the silence. She turned to Daniel, the soft glow of the dash highlighting her concerned features. "Am I happy with my life?" "You’re not allowed to answer a question with a question, you know that." "Sorry. It’s a loaded question." "That’s why I asked. I figure I can learn quite a bit about a person." Daniel held onto the steering wheel and pulled back with his shoulder blades, stretching his upper back. "Are you hap--" "Uh-huh!" Daniel relaxed. "Not in the rules, okay-okay." "Why is it so hard for people to answer that question? Everyone I ask does the same thing. Procrastinates." Daniel gave her a surprised look. He turned back to the road. "Your question cuts right to the quick, that’s why. It hits people where it hurts most. In their dreams." "I guess I don’t understand why people don’t live their dreams--why live anything else?" Daniel chuckled. "How old are you?" "What does that have to do with anything?" "You’re right. It’s not a fair question." "Well, I think it is: what does age have to do with anything?" "You certainly don’t give up, do you?" "Am I supposed to?"
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Daniel Grant’s mid-life crisis wasn’t at all like the normal, expected thing of a man in his mid-thirties. His had little to do with his job, his marriage, or any nostalgic ponderings of lost youth. Instead, he questioned the very basis of life itself, of why we were all here, were dreams--his dreams--real, and did humanity dream itself a mass dream? Perhaps most important of all, he wondered who or what beckoned him ever deeper into the surreal world of conscious dreams . . . Unable to draw a clear line between reality and the imagined, Daniel awakens in the middle of a nocturnal roadtrip, meets up with the mysterious and precocious teenage Maggie-Leigh, and is taught life lessons he considers fantasy. His journey takes him beyond the edges of reality, upsetting the very foundations of life as he knew it. What he finds forever changes how he will live, think, and act--and even how life itself will continue to operate. And this is only the beginning. "If ever there was a truly suspenseful, real-yet-mysterious-and-complicated account of the known and unknown, psychic and psychological ingredients of our lives, this is it! F. P. Dorchak creates for us a most intriguing, interwoven and provocative account of our lifetime challenges in his Sleepwalkers, and I’m pleased to note this book is just the beginning of his published insights into the great probable mysteries of life, as we seek to explore and understand them. What challenges he creates, in this brilliant journey into those sleeping and awake questions we all have. Way to go, Frank!" "The trek with Daniel Grant into and through the fifth dimension of his dream universe, and back again, is colorful, fascinating, and fun . . . it’s almost like taking college metaphysics and philosophy all over again--except it’s easier to understand this "time" around, and a lot more exciting." "Sleepwalkers is exciting, moving, and consciousness-expanding. A wonderful read . . . I couldn’t put the book down!" "In SLEEPWALKERS, F. P. Dorchak paints a mesmerizing, multi-dimensional world filled with surprises and thought-provoking ideas." "If metaphysical fiction ever attains the acceptance and respect of general fiction, it will be because of writers like F. P. Dorchak. He has a gift for balancing rarefied metaphysical concepts with down-to-earth narrative, and characters with real desires and concerns. Sleepwalkers is gritty and provocative, yet its believable portrayal of the spiritual dynamics behind life situations left me with a feeling of lightness and integration. Frank writes for the whole person!"
Rob Butts
Madelon Rose Logue
Editor/publisher, The Black Sheep: a Seth/Jane Roberts Fanzine
Ute Kaboolian
Writer/Poet; "Always One," and "Sound of The Siren"
Deb Stover
Award-winning author of A Moment In Time
Joe Reininger
McKinzey-White Bookshop
Colorado Springs, CO
About the Author
F. P. Dorchak writes gritty, realistic supernatural, metaphysical, and paranormal fiction. Dorchak is published in the U.S., Canada, and the Czech Republic with short stories, non-fiction articles, and five novels, Voice, Psychic, ERO, The Uninvited, and Sleepwalkers. Dorchak’s first short story collection, Do The Dead Dream? An Anthology of the Weird and the Peculiar, won the 2017 Best Book Award for Fiction: Short Story. Visit F. P. Dorchak at: www.fpdorchak.com.