Last Night I Dreamt I was in my living room and it was pitch black. All I had to light my way was a rickety, old table lamp. The glass of the light bulb was broken, but the filament was still lit. I was holding the lamp up, struggling to see with only the tiny amount of light it provided. I thought I saw a cockroach, and was very frightened by it. It was one of the small roaches, but it kept on changing, as things sometimes do in dreams. Next it became a large cockroach, then a strange, slimy, wiggly creature with a big, rounded head!

Last Night I Dreamt that I was in San Francisco visiting a friend. We went to a lavish pool party and got into a card game run by some ominous gangster types. The cards were strange and nothing like a regular deck, but I managed to make a straight and win a generous pot. My friend and I decided we had better split with the winnings, looking over our shoulders as we went. But while we rode off in the elevator, we were confronted by something much scarier than a group of thugs. A creature, a 'red devil' as we called it in the dream, was lurking on the elevator floor. He was tiny and crept around on all fours, with a skin that looked like it was made of crimson rubber. We tried pouring soda on the floor in an effort to drown him...but this only made him grow bigger.

Last Night I Dreamt that a 'friend' (not someone that I actually know in the real world) had decided to commit suicide. Before doing so, he had divided up his savings and mailed a share to each of his friends in a little plastic container. I recall counting the money and finding that it was around two and a half thousand pounds. Most of it was in 59 pound notes which is odd because, of course, these do not exist...

As I was counting the money, I kept being interrupted by an unwanted visitor who was letting herself in through my front door with a set of keys. Afraid she was after my newly acquired cash, I ended up snatching her purse and confiscating the keys she held to my apartment.

The rest is somewhat blurry, but I do remember moments of panic on the upper floors of a crumbling high-rise, and an elevator plummeting at breakneck speed.

Last Night I Dreamt that I was sitting in my car at the park, when I saw an object hurtling through the air. I remember craning forward, pressing my palms against the windscreen to get a better view. The object turned out to be a parachute, hurtling toward the earth at an alarming speed.
I saw the parachuter crash into some trees, and hoped that he would be okay because the leaves and branches appeared to break his fall. But then his neck became tangled in the parachute cord. He was left hanging, twitching, jerking...still ensnared by the throat. Rather disturbing this one...

Last Night I Dreamt that I was in the gym, lacing up my sneakers. One had white laces, the other black laces that were far too long. Every time I tied up the black laces, I would look down seconds later and see that they had become untied. I decided to tell a friend, to confirm that it wasn't all in my head. I tied the black lace, and when we checked on it after a moment, the laces had completely disappeared...
After that, all hell broke loose. Bizarre things started to happen. I remember seeing a severed head rolling down a staircase, and hearing it thump...thump...thump. Then the floor of the gym became a projection screen, where a video played featuring a strange man with spiral shaped eyeballs and a crimson face. He was preaching loudly, to anyone who would listen, about morals and about sin.
As my friends and I cowered in the corridors, I realized that none of this was real. When I saw a producer in a headset, directing the whole scene!

Featured Author 7/14/09

I am the featured author today (7/14/09) on the Book Rix blog! Read my interview and find out more about me, my writing process and my new mystery novel, Lucid!

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Lucid Receives a 4 Star Review!

My novel, 'Lucid', just received a great review and 4 out of 5 stars on the Manic Readers website! The review:

"Sloane is a typical college student who spends her free time hanging out with her friends. Her best friend, Alex, and Alex’s boyfriend, Silas, begin talking about dreams and their significance on one such occasion. Over the next few days, Sloane’s dreams become more and more detailed and disturbing. She enlists the aid of her friends in dispelling her belief that one of her dreams is, in fact, real. Every day she becomes more and more afraid to fall asleep and dream of the things that lead her to believe the unthinkable about someone close to her.

When I finished reading Lucid by Katherine Angela Yeboah, I had to sit a minute and digest the possibilities evoked by this story. The dreams and their explanations kept me up at night wondering about their significance. When I wasn’t reading, I found myself mulling over the scenes and the characters. While this is a definite page-turner, the reader should savor each page. The plot of this book is so intense that it is hidden until the unveiling at the end. It left me stunned. This book is so well written that it will remain with you long after you are done reading it. It will follow you every time you dream. Few books have affected me so intensely. I plan to follow this author like a feline after catnip. Well done, Ms. Yeboah."

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