Overview: What is the value of a lie when you’re protecting whom you love? Dream analyst Ursula is experiencing painful visions of an unknown desert. At first, her therapist, Jill, suggests it’s only a dream. But when Ursula suffers another vision while hooked up to Jill’s dream reader, both realize that there may be more at stake.

Verdict: While Ursula is keen to uncover what her visions mean and why she’s having them, Jill and her partner, Mackenzie, struggle to keep the truth a secret - Ursula’s visions are actually memories.

Occam’s Dream delicately balances psychology, truth, and relationship against the sacrifices one must make for the sake of the world, and poses the ultimate question: Is it ever possible to truly control a narrative?

In what is a sharply written prose, complete with engaging characters, all complete with a depth rarely seen in novella’s such as this one, author Lauren Jane Barnett has brought forth a tale that had me page turning, chapter moving from the off, and thus I had read the book in one complete sitting (and still wished there had been more!)

An award-winning screenwriter and author best known for Death Lines: Walking London’s Horror History, the short Robot Armadillo and the “Invasion at Studio 69” segment in Videoshop Tales of Terror II: Lust and Revenge, Barnett’s brilliant sci-fi mystery where dreams get peeled away like onion layers until a solving can be brought forth, is as compelling as it is impassioned.

Our lead character goes on quite the embroiled journey, one fraughtly packed with so much emotional luggage that the reader will easily identify with her plight along the way. Moreover, this absorbing, and masterfully sculpted new book tells a tale that isn’t the norm within these genres, which is as refreshing as it gets, in and unto itself.

About the Author - Lauren Jane Barnett is a horror writer, podcaster, and indie actress best known for Death Lines: Walking London’s Horror History. Her horror fiction has appeared in, among others, BFS Horizons, Horrified, and Tales of Fear, Superstition, and Doom.

She shares her love of horror by hosting The London Horror Movie Club podcast and by appearing in indie horrors like Horrorscopes 2 and The Witches of the Sands. She lives in London, UK.

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