Created to capture the heart of a boy.
Created to take down a powerful family of Verona.
Created to express emotion like a human, but not to feel emotion.
But the time always comes when the creator loses control of his creation….
“Still-Waking Sleep” originally appeared in Fiction River: No Humans Allowed (WMG Publishing, 2017).
Reviews:Robert L Turner III on Tangent Online wrote:
The story is well crafted, and the idea is clever…[with] solid depth…and interesting complexity. … Dermatis has a love of lush language…that fits well into the story.