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DREAM EDGE

Awakening midnight to the freshly snowed silence, from the country of dreams I looked out the window and there I was in the far reaches of the universe on a small, icy silver planet that had half a moon, perhaps more, high in its turbulent, vaporous atmosphere, a planet teeming with icy jungles of white-feathered trees that rose frost-laden into the mercury night, frozen in wait for the warmth to come from an occasional, distant sun that rose briefly once every thousand tantalizing moons, till I drifted off again...