Sweet Dreams
CONTENTS
Cover
Praise for Tricia Sullivan
Also by Tricia Sullivan and available from Titan Books
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Body confidence
The first cut
Cardboard box in Wandsworth Town
How not to be a doormat
ASMR
The pigeon sisters
Flowers for Algernon: the club remix
Copernican Principle
The Dark Side
Why
Creeper
Sleepwalkers Anonymous
Oneric Crime
Our friend can go again
Unique and impactful
Doctor Lady Reverend
Stack
Cone of Silence
Two takeaways plus tea
Sleep paralysis personified
Knitters, cat-lovers, tea-drinkers
Big sky
Little bird
Mrs H-W strikes back
Unfair to snakes
For real
Moose reserve
Delivered by ghost pigeon
Awake
Acknowledgements
About The Author
Praise for Tricia Sullivan:
‘Sweet Dreams is a gripping and frequently scary mystery with great characters that manages to stay one step ahead of the reader, and it’s both grounded and bursting with ideas. You’ll race through it and be sorry when it’s over’
SciFi Now
‘Fast and fun, thrilling and chilling by turns’
Interzone
‘A fast-paced SF thriller that delivers the author’s usual blend of convincing characterisation and well researched science’
Guardian
‘Occupy Me keeps the pages turning and the wheels of thought whirring. It’s a psychedelic experience, a wacky tapestry of an idea’
SFX
‘This is science fiction at its most surreal . . . the premise is brilliant’
Daily Mail
Also by Tricia Sullivan and available from Titan Books
Occupy Me
TRICIA SULLIVAN
SWEET
DREAMS
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Sweet Dreams
Print edition ISBN: 9781785658006
E-book edition ISBN: 9781785658013
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Names, places and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead (except for satirical purposes), is entirely coincidental.
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For Marion J. Sullivan
world’s greatest mom
Secret Diary of a Prawn Star
Entry #46
Codename: Chaplin
Date: 12 September 2027
Client: Bettina Haugh-Wombaur
Payment in advance: Yes
Session Goal: Resolve recurring anxiety dream
Location: Collingborne Road, Shepherd’s Bush
Narcolepsy status: Nice nap at O’s place beforehand
Nutrition/stimulants: None
Start time: 11:32 p.m.