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Dream City Blues

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THE CITY HAS TWO FACES Our long-cherished dream of Utopia is always just out of reach. We are doomed to know what we want but never to reach it. Inside this book are stories of cities filled with dreams that have become nightmares. THE CITY WEARS MANY MASKS From shining towers to filthy back alleys; from bright sunlit parks to dingy, cramped basements; this misguided tour through our dream cities is beset with dangerous pitfalls. Here are 11 diverse visions of cities that are unsettling, horrific, outlandish and bizarre in turn. Come and visit...but don't forget your return ticket.

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Although you go this far and no further without buying the book - make sure that you do. I made it into the Kind of a Hurricane Press anthology on Four Seasons last year with a little knockabout satirical monologue called Climate Change You Can Believe In. A page long, I came up with it during a group writing exercise. It took ten minutes to draft and I barely altered a thing afterwards. I later read the anthology. My bit did seem odd next to a lot of very refined, skillful poetry but it's evidence, perhaps, that First Thought, Best Thought is not always a bad idea.