DreamForge Digital Issue 7: Hope of the Dreamers

Welcome DreamForge Magazine Issue 7

In this issue, Hope of the Dreamers, we meet a fallen angel and learn about ferret finances. Telepathic fish take over, while fireflies exceed the speed of light. It’s a wild ride with a little apocalypse and a bit of countryside thrown in. Enjoy!

Adaption and Creation

2020 was a challenging year. Though DreamForge achieved its share of critical success, the challenges of the COVID-19 year have forced us to consider how we can continue in 2021. Read our editorial to learn more.

Ferret Finances

Money, like all mediums of exchange, is both a story we tell ourselves and one on which we must all agree. Any pink-pawed polecat will do.

Monsters Beautiful and Bright

When come times of famine and rot, the tales may be Grimm, yet deep in the forest wait those ready to heal both nature and broken families.

Silent Partnership, Part 2

In the exciting conclusion of Silent Partnership, we meet the aliens behind the storms and learn that the hand of man may be the biggest prize of all.

Rebirth

Should we look upon regeneration as a boon or an existential threat? Only the phoenix may know the answer… if she can remember.

At the End of All Things

When the days of dark draw near and the torch of hope flickers low, some will always see an image of the world that can be, if only they survive.

The Wishbone

Do wishes depend on the wording and the exacting logic of desire, or is the simplicity of love enough to see us through?

These Expeditions

Do wishes depend on the wording and the exacting logic of desire, or is the simplicity of love enough to see us through?

Countryside

Some rush to the big, off-world colonies where riches and fame await, or where their family name may make the difference. Others long for arcadian dreams.

On the Way There

Hope is about more than deliverance from struggle, it’s about seeing beyond the darkness, both for yourself and those you love.

Neighbors and Little Thieves

Could the sequential experience of time provide a distorted view of our lives? Perhaps other races, seeing an ageless whole, know a greater peace.

The Limits of the Human Heart

Is it a longer life we seek or a more loving one? Should medicine prolong suffering or give hope through allowing a more meaningful goodbye?

I Don’t Know Where Magic Is

Magic always reveals itself in singular moments of recognition; self-evident, to be understood by the heart without question.

Fibonacci

Are we overreaching when we consider the possibilities of de-extinction and species engineering, or can we become the designers of a better future?

Broke Down & Starside

Online social networks are no more than a heartbeat old in the history of things, while corporate avarice is as old as business itself. In the far future, which will win?

The Android and the Fallen Angel

The primal fear of excommunication, of being excluded from the communities in which we live is always with us. Even the divine and the artificial know its pain.

Myself

Of all the wishes the sea witch ever granted, no one had ever asked to love themselves before. Though magic is temporary, the knowledge of self-worth is beyond price.

In the Leaves’ Embrace

One species flourishes in the quick sunshine; the other remembers the days of ice. Can there be understanding, even love, when tears are entwined in root and bough?

Blink If You Love Me

The fireflies? There was no way to control them. It was like throwing messages in bottles into an infinite sea that had no current. Yet that may be their only hope.

The Winds and Waters of Mars

What traditions can follow us 58 million miles from home? When the seasons are sharper, the air thinner, and the Chi of Earth is nowhere to be found.

The Flight of the Brolga

It’s been said that the world reveals itself to those who travel on foot. When fortune steals away the ability to walk, all that remains is to learn the secrets of the sky.