Cog Stone Dreams

Synopsis

Cog stones are unique, nine thousand year old, archeological artifacts found at Southern California Estuarial Wetlands.

What are Cog Stones used for? Magic? Wishing? Dreaming? Ahh that’s the mystery.

According to the fictional narrator of Cog Stone Dreams, “the novel is a whimsical look at 9,000 years of Westbruk Wetlands history, peopled by smugglers, wise grandmothers, ambitious explorers, a royal who pretends to be a commoner, rich people who live the high life, poor people who catch malaria, stunt men, thieves, priests, members of a fancy-smancy gun club, oil men (including one who communicates with the dead), a murderer and me.

Who am I?

My name is Dessa Halom Lechmann. I write the syndicated Dear Dessa Dreams advice column for the Bulletin Gazette newspaper chain. In 1946, when I was ten I went to the Westbruk Wetlands and bought a dream inducing cog stone. If things don’t go well for me, I take the cog stone to bed and dream about the wetlands. Because my parents divorced, my mother was crazy, I broke up with Mr. Perfect to marry Mr. Not So Perfect, had my tonsils removed and witnessed a murder, I’ve taken that dream inducing cog stone to bed a lot. So now I’m a real authority on the Westbruk Wetlands and you can ask me anything you want to know about it.