This is the Dream, a Novella

Cali Watts is struggling to come of age in a life saturated with indifference. Stealing almost worthless things isn't helping. Neither is dreaming of the dead. "Take me where you took her," I said. "That's where I want to go." Her parents named her Calico Watts, a name she hates as much as she does the rest of her life. Growing up a child of divorce in Weldon Spring, Missouri has left Cali numb, without identity or purpose, sapped of any ambition for the future and even for the one thing al