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Mr. Truepenny's Book Emporium and Gallery

Charles de Lint

First published December 1992
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story
Series de Lint Master Mythos Universe › Newford

Jilly's friend Sophie Etoile explained in "The Moon is Drowning While I Sleep" that she has serial dreams that she suspects are actually happening in another layer of reality. In this story Sophie suspects that that other layer of reality is real to other people than herself when a little girl approaches her and explains to her mother that THIS is the mean lady who's closing Mr. Truepenny's, a story that only exists, as far as she knows, in her dream-world...

First appeared in a limited edition chapbook published by Cheap Street, 1992.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
December 1992 Cover Mr. Truepenny's Book Emporium and Gallery Cheap Street Chapbook
April 1995 Cover The Ivory and the Horn Tor Collection 46
March 1996 Cover The Ivory and the Horn Tor Collection 36
June 1999 Cover The Newford Stories Science Fiction Book Club Omnibus 316
December 1999 Cover Yellow Submarine, #129 Yellow Submarine FANZINE 55
October 2000 Cover Triskell Tales: 22 Years of Chapbooks Subterranean Press Collection 375
October 2003 Cover Triskell Tales: 22 Years of Chapbooks Subterranean Press Collection 375
October 2007 Cover The Ivory and the Horn Orb Collection 46
July 2010 Cover The Very Best of Charles de Lint Tachyon Publications Collection 193
2014 Cover The Very Best of Charles de Lint Triskell Press Collection |17