Still-Waking Sleep — Dayle A. Dermatis

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….Tangent Online says of Still-Waking Sleep, The story is well crafted, and the idea is clever…[with] solid depth…and interesting complexity.Still-Waking Sleep originally appeared in Fiction River: No Humans Allowed (WMG Publishing, 2017).