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The Dreams That Shape Us and Other Stories by Louise Zedda-Sampson
Release date November 2025
“This collection will make you appreciate all you hold dear, because it is more fragile than you know.” —Matt Tighe, multi-award-winning author
Are nightmares real or are they dreams in disguise?
The Dreams That Shape Us and Other Stories is a collection of dark speculative fiction and poetry exploring life, death, and the places in between. Ghosts who don’t know they’re dead, a vampire coming of age, a tree who wants to live a different life, and people – or other things – who yearn for more than they have, unaware life often falls short in its delivery.
Within these pages you’ll find a mixture of humour, heartbreak, and horror – stories that reach deep into your soul and beg the question: what if, by some cosmic error, this happened to me?
Reviews and mentions
A Shadow in this Red Rock packs such a powerful story into nine pages. – Mark Folse, Goodreads
A Shadow in This Red Rock [by Louise Zedda-Sampson] – a short sharp and jagged tale. It talks of the past repeating itself, discusses domestic violence and its final scene is not shown but a reminder some monsters must be faced. – Runalong the Shelves
This fascinating game in Bendigo has never been properly narrated – until now, in a delightful little book, Bowl the Maidens Over by Louise Zedda-Sampson. – Gideon Haigh, The Australian
While a slim book, less than a hundred pages long, Bowl The Maidens Over is a valuable and important contribution to sporting history in Australia and in particular women’s sporting history. These stories matter. Individually and collectively. – Kirby Fenwick, Siren a Women in Sports Collective
The stronger tales in Infected 2, such as ‘Confinement’ by Louise Zedda-Sampson and ‘Welfare Check’ by Patrick J. Gallagher, use the short stature of the medium to their advantage. These bits of the anthology are far greater than their low word count suggests and feel like gems hidden within the bulk of the otherwise serviceable stories. – Deidre Crimmins, Rue Morgue
The Forgotten Sea by Louise Zedda-Sampson boasts an abundance of sensory detail and effective imagery. It begins as your standard haunted house story—but it turns out it’s the visitor who carries her own ghosts. – Arturo Serrato, Nerds of a Feather