With the full weight and gravity of the world pressing down upon her Alethea, the Greek Goddess of Truth, rests in an uneasy slumber.
Alethea’s Dreams become embodied and enlivened through this collection of stories.
Challenging, insightful, suspenseful and romantic.
Begging to be uncovered, unearthed and awakened, her concern for humanity manifests in the curiously tragic, romantic and insightful lives of her dream’s main characters.
As the winds of change blow, the dirt of modernity is whisked away. The nature of her truth resurfaces and becomes exposed in a myriad of times and places. From the slave pit of a rock quarry to the King’s table, along distant mountain passes and the many endless highways of civilization, between the lines of blank pages, in the heart of modern suburbia, underneath the red berries of a threatened coffee farm that rests deep in the El Salvadorian jungle, stuck under the surgical knife in a flickering makeshift operating room amidst the chaotic throngs of war, across time and space into our most painful traumatic pasts, unto our unfolding futures and beyond, Alethea and her dreams take us underneath the surface of our illusions to the distant future that our hearts all long for.
These are Alethea’s Dreams.
"Alethea’s Dreams by Daniel Martin is a sweeping look at an array of philosophical topics, such as freedom, love, truth, value, and honesty. With laser precision the author unfolds the deep inner workings of the human psyche through the compelling format of short stories that seem unrelated but are actually intertwined in the messages they convey.
This book provides a good look at humanity. The opening explanation of who and what Alethea is was helpful to set the tone for the pages to come, and the revisiting of Alethea at the end helped the reader intellectually and emotionally digest the stories in the book. Author Daniel Martin creates an often magical and sometimes tragic setting for each story and has the skill to make each character come alive within the first paragraph or two of each story. I can’t imagine any reader not enjoying this book. Alethea’s Dreams is beautifully and compassionately written."
