Paperback edition of This is the Dream. Finalist for the American Writing Awards and the International Book Awards

In This Is the Dream, Owen Thomas leads us on a long and winding journey of the mind with intelligent prose that leaves us all looking inward for truth.

This Is the Dream is a collection of ten short stories and novellas that explore the depths of the human psyche, our desires, and our struggle for identity. Dreams, and our relationship to them, function as the recurring theme that binds Thomas’ stories together, but the subject matter of each narrative varies from story to story. Whether by a school field trip, a collection of letters, or a divorce, Thomas uses ordinary circumstances as a vehicle to communicate what’s beneath the veil of our mundane interactions and reflections thereof. Although the stories’ events are grounded, each one sees its characters reaching for something liminal.