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The Chameleon and other Awakenings

A collection of Psychedelic Science Fiction stories about consciousness, perception, strange inner worlds, and the act of letting go. Written, designed, and richly illustrated with mixed-media art by Ash Alexander, "The Chameleon" is an exercise in challenging the fundamentals of standardized book design and storytelling style, distorting the boundary between art and fiction.

"You cannot escape this inevitable occurrence, a happening as natural as the towering mountains and the mist that shrouds them. You cannot escape it, this growth, this shifting, this change long in the making. You may run from it, seeking to return to the start of it all, but this beginning no longer exists, exchanged for a place most strange. In This strangeness you must wait, for it is where she oft resides, this being so marvelously alive with becoming, armed with naught but the contentedness of her heart. That whom you know as the Chameleon, corporeal form, waits in these places, blind spots of the mind."

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