title: Daydreamers: Stories
author: Jonathan Harper
description: ''Tenants who destroy your rental apartment, corpses that wash ashore, old men in strip bars, bullies, failed fathers, estranged lovers, and very lost young men negotiating relationships with older ones--welcome to the world of Jonathan Harper's <i>Daydreamers</i>, whose assured prose style is turned with deadly accuracy on the crummy, sinister, banality of life in contemporary America. Harper's collection brings to mind a movie of an Anne Tyler novel, if it were directed by David Lynch. There is some original sin at the center of these lost lives. But what is it exactly? Whatever the answer, Harper's stories get better as they accumulate, until they take on the weight of an original artist's vision.'' -- --Andrew Holleran<br /><br />''A catalog of suburbia's petty desolations and meditations on lost chances; Harper makes for a keen archivist of his characters' flawed, unfinished manifestos.'' --Genevieve Valentine, author of <i>The Girls at the Kingfisher Club</i> and <i>Mechanique</i>
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  I Am More Than
  
  
  a Daydream
  
  
  
  
  
  By Jennae Cecelia
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Illustrations by Riley Moran
  
  
  Instagram: @gabriellescrapart
  
  
  
  
  
  Cover Design by Islam Farid
  
  
  www.islamfarid.net
  
  
  
  
  
  I Am More Than a Daydream
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright © 2017 by Jennae Cecelia. All rights reserved. No part of this book
  may be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from the
  author except for the use of brief quotation in a book review or scholarly
  journal.
  
  
  
  
  
  ISBN: 987-1544237190
  
  
  
  
  
  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are
  products of the author’s imagination or are used factiously. Any resemblance
  to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead is entirely
  coincidental.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  For my daydreamers -
  
  
  You are always more
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  All I Am ……..pg.10
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  All I Can Be ……..pg.29
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  