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DreamForge, a magazine of science and fantasy fiction, focusing on speculative stories, demonstrating enduring and indomitable parts of the human spirit.
A soldier who couldn't pull the trigger in an alien jungle becomes a sought-after musician—haunted by a melody only he can hear and playing an instrument no human should possess.
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November 26, 2025 at 11:33 AM
A soldier who couldn't pull the trigger in an alien jungle becomes a sought-after musician—haunted by a melody only he can hear and playing an instrument no human should possess.
go.dfstory.com/play-it-again
go.dfstory.com/play-it-again
We love to promote the success of our DreamCaster supporters. Today, we congratulate David Hankins for getting the cover story on Eric Flint's 1632 & Beyond Issue #14 with “The Abrabanel Rescue.” www.amazon.com/Eric-Flints-...
November 25, 2025 at 2:08 PM
We love to promote the success of our DreamCaster supporters. Today, we congratulate David Hankins for getting the cover story on Eric Flint's 1632 & Beyond Issue #14 with “The Abrabanel Rescue.” www.amazon.com/Eric-Flints-...
Vellichor
The wistful aura of used bookstores, with their musty smell and promise of forgotten stories waiting on shelves. From The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. It combines the Latin "velli" (of paper) and "ichor" (the ethereal fluid of the gods). A poetic describing half my book shelves.
The wistful aura of used bookstores, with their musty smell and promise of forgotten stories waiting on shelves. From The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. It combines the Latin "velli" (of paper) and "ichor" (the ethereal fluid of the gods). A poetic describing half my book shelves.
November 25, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Vellichor
The wistful aura of used bookstores, with their musty smell and promise of forgotten stories waiting on shelves. From The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. It combines the Latin "velli" (of paper) and "ichor" (the ethereal fluid of the gods). A poetic describing half my book shelves.
The wistful aura of used bookstores, with their musty smell and promise of forgotten stories waiting on shelves. From The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. It combines the Latin "velli" (of paper) and "ichor" (the ethereal fluid of the gods). A poetic describing half my book shelves.
A photographer follows a remote tribe's unusual life cycle, until the day his own camera stops working and the evening songs begin to make sense.
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November 25, 2025 at 11:32 AM
A photographer follows a remote tribe's unusual life cycle, until the day his own camera stops working and the evening songs begin to make sense.
go.dfstory.com/easy-song
go.dfstory.com/easy-song
While acclaim and success may be illusions, there are grounding realities which give opportunities to love, laugh, and enjoy the aroma of a new field of art. dreamforgemagazine.com/story/cities...
Cities of Grand Illusion - Dreamforge Magazine
In the days leading up to the exhibition, her name vibrates through the neighborhood like seismic waves. Televisions blare through the torn screens of open windows, […]
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November 22, 2025 at 3:22 PM
While acclaim and success may be illusions, there are grounding realities which give opportunities to love, laugh, and enjoy the aroma of a new field of art. dreamforgemagazine.com/story/cities...
Today's Word is: Gorgonize:
To have a paralyzing or mesmerizing effect on someone. Derived from the Greek Gorgons (like Medusa), whose gaze turned people to stone. Useful for modern times: News and Internet algorithms are designed to gorgonize, not apprise. To stupefy, not edify.
To have a paralyzing or mesmerizing effect on someone. Derived from the Greek Gorgons (like Medusa), whose gaze turned people to stone. Useful for modern times: News and Internet algorithms are designed to gorgonize, not apprise. To stupefy, not edify.
November 22, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Today's Word is: Gorgonize:
To have a paralyzing or mesmerizing effect on someone. Derived from the Greek Gorgons (like Medusa), whose gaze turned people to stone. Useful for modern times: News and Internet algorithms are designed to gorgonize, not apprise. To stupefy, not edify.
To have a paralyzing or mesmerizing effect on someone. Derived from the Greek Gorgons (like Medusa), whose gaze turned people to stone. Useful for modern times: News and Internet algorithms are designed to gorgonize, not apprise. To stupefy, not edify.
The Foresight Institute champions Existential Hope, and is betting on a brighter future, the Foresight Institute actively works to combat the "doom-loop." Read on to discover how they're mapping out credible paths to a better tomorrow.
go.dfstory.com/existential-hope
go.dfstory.com/existential-hope
November 21, 2025 at 11:28 AM
The Foresight Institute champions Existential Hope, and is betting on a brighter future, the Foresight Institute actively works to combat the "doom-loop." Read on to discover how they're mapping out credible paths to a better tomorrow.
go.dfstory.com/existential-hope
go.dfstory.com/existential-hope
A mysterious tale that begins with a simple request for sugar from a new neighbor. "Old Wounds, New Spears," by J M Williams dreamforgemagazine.com/story/old-wo...
Old Wounds, New Spears - Dreamforge Magazine
One day a woman came to my door asking for sugar. It was a rather stereotypical thing for a new neighbor to do, and yet, there […]
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November 20, 2025 at 2:33 PM
A mysterious tale that begins with a simple request for sugar from a new neighbor. "Old Wounds, New Spears," by J M Williams dreamforgemagazine.com/story/old-wo...
Today's Word is: Resile
Definition: To retract from a previously held position. From the Latin resilire ("to jump back" or "recoil"). While resilience is the ability to bounce back, to resile is the act of jumping back away from a firm stance—usually right after you realize you've lost the plot.
Definition: To retract from a previously held position. From the Latin resilire ("to jump back" or "recoil"). While resilience is the ability to bounce back, to resile is the act of jumping back away from a firm stance—usually right after you realize you've lost the plot.
November 20, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Today's Word is: Resile
Definition: To retract from a previously held position. From the Latin resilire ("to jump back" or "recoil"). While resilience is the ability to bounce back, to resile is the act of jumping back away from a firm stance—usually right after you realize you've lost the plot.
Definition: To retract from a previously held position. From the Latin resilire ("to jump back" or "recoil"). While resilience is the ability to bounce back, to resile is the act of jumping back away from a firm stance—usually right after you realize you've lost the plot.
Epiphanies are those lightning-strike moments when your character finally gets it—learn how to craft character insights that feel both inevitable and surprising, turning mere plot points into unforgettable moments of genius.
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November 19, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Epiphanies are those lightning-strike moments when your character finally gets it—learn how to craft character insights that feel both inevitable and surprising, turning mere plot points into unforgettable moments of genius.
go.dfstory.com/ss-eureka
go.dfstory.com/ss-eureka
An apprentice minstrel has survived three years of disasters following his master across plague-torn Europe— but in Naples, he discovers the catastrophes had a purpose and his master has a plan.
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November 18, 2025 at 11:25 AM
An apprentice minstrel has survived three years of disasters following his master across plague-torn Europe— but in Naples, he discovers the catastrophes had a purpose and his master has a plan.
go.dfstory.com/finding-a-voice
go.dfstory.com/finding-a-voice
For something to thrive, something else must be consumed. Or is it possible to circumvent the cycle wherein the energy to sustain life is taken from a living thing? What would such a world be like? dreamforgemagazine.com/story/toward...
Toward Light - Dreamforge Magazine
The laws of the universe state that energy can be neither created nor destroyed. It exists and is consumed and is expelled, changing shape and form, […]
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November 16, 2025 at 4:32 PM
For something to thrive, something else must be consumed. Or is it possible to circumvent the cycle wherein the energy to sustain life is taken from a living thing? What would such a world be like? dreamforgemagazine.com/story/toward...
Today's word: Anecdotage. That phase where stories of youth are the thing. A portmanteau of "anecdote" (short narrative) + "dotage" (senile decline). All I have to say about that is: did I tell you about the time I turned and saw a bear on the trail behind us? I did. What about the one where...
November 16, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Today's word: Anecdotage. That phase where stories of youth are the thing. A portmanteau of "anecdote" (short narrative) + "dotage" (senile decline). All I have to say about that is: did I tell you about the time I turned and saw a bear on the trail behind us? I did. What about the one where...
A soldier who couldn't pull the trigger in an alien jungle becomes a sought-after musician—haunted by a melody only he can hear and playing an instrument no human should possess.
go.dfstory.com/play-it-again
go.dfstory.com/play-it-again
November 16, 2025 at 11:21 AM
A soldier who couldn't pull the trigger in an alien jungle becomes a sought-after musician—haunted by a melody only he can hear and playing an instrument no human should possess.
go.dfstory.com/play-it-again
go.dfstory.com/play-it-again
We love to promote the success of our DreamCaster supporters. Today, we’re delighted to share the stunning cover of “The Emperor’s Golden Carp and other stories” by J. K. Stephens. Available in Kindle and paperback on Amazon: www.amazon.com/Emperors-Gol...
November 16, 2025 at 3:07 AM
We love to promote the success of our DreamCaster supporters. Today, we’re delighted to share the stunning cover of “The Emperor’s Golden Carp and other stories” by J. K. Stephens. Available in Kindle and paperback on Amazon: www.amazon.com/Emperors-Gol...
A photographer follows a remote tribe's unusual life cycle, until the day his own camera stops working and the evening songs begin to make sense.
go.dfstory.com/easy-song
go.dfstory.com/easy-song
November 14, 2025 at 11:18 AM
A photographer follows a remote tribe's unusual life cycle, until the day his own camera stops working and the evening songs begin to make sense.
go.dfstory.com/easy-song
go.dfstory.com/easy-song
Mary Soon Lee, Grand Master of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association, three-time winner of the AnLab Readers’ Award, and four-time Rhysling Award winner has a poem for us: "What Martians Read." dreamforgemagazine.com/story/what-m...
What Martians Read - Dreamforge Magazine
All the miscellaneous minutiae mandated by law and circumstance: dosimeters, depressurization protocols, equipment manuals, mineral assays, cargo manifests, import/export tariffs, texts on recycling, ...
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November 13, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Mary Soon Lee, Grand Master of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association, three-time winner of the AnLab Readers’ Award, and four-time Rhysling Award winner has a poem for us: "What Martians Read." dreamforgemagazine.com/story/what-m...
Today's word: Peiskos. The cozy, contented warmth of curling up by a crackling fireplace on a winter evening. A Norwegian blend of "peis" (fireplace) + "kos" (coziness). We don't have a fireplace, but there's a space heater next to my desk with a nice orange glow!
November 13, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Today's word: Peiskos. The cozy, contented warmth of curling up by a crackling fireplace on a winter evening. A Norwegian blend of "peis" (fireplace) + "kos" (coziness). We don't have a fireplace, but there's a space heater next to my desk with a nice orange glow!
In DreamForge Anvil Issue 21, The Sound of Hope, music becomes magic, revolution, and sometimes catastrophe across time and space.
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November 13, 2025 at 11:16 AM
In DreamForge Anvil Issue 21, The Sound of Hope, music becomes magic, revolution, and sometimes catastrophe across time and space.
SUBSCRIBE TO SUPPORT US: dreamforgemagazine.com/subsc... READ Free Online: go.dfstory.com/anvil21
SUBSCRIBE TO SUPPORT US: dreamforgemagazine.com/subsc... READ Free Online: go.dfstory.com/anvil21
In 1975 East Berlin, a band plays instruments made from the Wall itself—but the real question is why the Stasi informant in the crowd can't stop dancing.
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November 12, 2025 at 11:15 AM
In 1975 East Berlin, a band plays instruments made from the Wall itself—but the real question is why the Stasi informant in the crowd can't stop dancing.
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go.dfstory.com/love-me-do
We perceive the world through our own unique lens of beliefs and feelings.
November 11, 2025 at 11:14 AM
We perceive the world through our own unique lens of beliefs and feelings.
The Euterpe Theatre is smack in the middle of a small Pennsylvania town slowly gentrifying itself back to life from the near-mortal blow of mines and mills shuttered decades ago. It’s an obsolete performance-house-slash-movie-palace, now a neglected. Until... dreamforgemagazine.com/story/little...
Little Things Nobody Remembers - Dreamforge Magazine
We duck below the foot-thick beams under the stage, only the light from our phones’ LEDs showing the way. We step over old pipes and boards, […]
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November 9, 2025 at 3:41 PM
The Euterpe Theatre is smack in the middle of a small Pennsylvania town slowly gentrifying itself back to life from the near-mortal blow of mines and mills shuttered decades ago. It’s an obsolete performance-house-slash-movie-palace, now a neglected. Until... dreamforgemagazine.com/story/little...
Today's Word: Hibernaculum
A snug winter refuge where creatures curl into warm little spaces until spring's return. From Latin hībernāculum, "winter quarters" Lucky am I to have stocked my hibernaculum with hot chocolate and books.
A snug winter refuge where creatures curl into warm little spaces until spring's return. From Latin hībernāculum, "winter quarters" Lucky am I to have stocked my hibernaculum with hot chocolate and books.
November 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Today's Word: Hibernaculum
A snug winter refuge where creatures curl into warm little spaces until spring's return. From Latin hībernāculum, "winter quarters" Lucky am I to have stocked my hibernaculum with hot chocolate and books.
A snug winter refuge where creatures curl into warm little spaces until spring's return. From Latin hībernāculum, "winter quarters" Lucky am I to have stocked my hibernaculum with hot chocolate and books.
A story about an android minstrel missionary sent to save a tone-deaf world. What could possibly go wrong?
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November 9, 2025 at 11:12 AM
A story about an android minstrel missionary sent to save a tone-deaf world. What could possibly go wrong?
go.dfstory.com/muzik-man-1
go.dfstory.com/muzik-man-1
The Foresight Institute champions Existential Hope, and is betting on a brighter future, the Foresight Institute actively works to combat the "doom-loop." Read on to discover how they're mapping out credible paths to a better tomorrow.
go.dfstory.com/existential-hope
go.dfstory.com/existential-hope
November 7, 2025 at 11:12 AM
The Foresight Institute champions Existential Hope, and is betting on a brighter future, the Foresight Institute actively works to combat the "doom-loop." Read on to discover how they're mapping out credible paths to a better tomorrow.
go.dfstory.com/existential-hope
go.dfstory.com/existential-hope