Koru Mag: Issue Two

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Nightmare - After “Link’s Awakening” By Nathan Comstock

Everyone here believes they have been dreamed into existence by a giant fish. It’s all very surreal - they don't believe me when I tell them I come from another place. They say there is no other place.

I say fish don't know anything about love, about loss, about life on land, so how could a fish dream up any of this? I say, "Do fish even sleep?" I try to tell them that I am real, and they are real, and the creatures that warp their landscape are real monsters, I have fought real monsters before.

These ones call themselves nightmares, because their power comes from the night, from fear, from what people imagine they might do, they are not nightmares in the mind of a giant fish,

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