Beneath Caaqi’s Wings

Coming Spring 2023

Dreams of Delphine

Forces we can’t see . . . are playing with our lives.

Travel into a dream with a man haunted by his lost twin sister, and share the insights and power of the subconscious mind.

Fathom the uncanny wisdom and power of dream space.

The Slide That Buried Rightful

Cold wakes up the fire inside.

Join a self-exiled carpenter and the teenage daughter he aims to protect as they struggle to rise above the cynicism of a cold-blooded world. The Slide That Buried Rightful will confound your most deeply held assumptions about right and wrong.

Wake to a new understanding of earthly, and unearthly, justice.

Dissolve

The season of facts is behind us.

Indulge the obsession of a dying man whose stubborn quest for an ecstatic send-off tests the liberating potentials of belief.

Dare to accompany a man with unusual beliefs in his rapturous transition between life and death.

Island Fruit Remedy

To find a new life, you must forget who you are.

Escape with a spurned romance writer and fantasist into an outrageous tropical burlesque, where a cast of metaphorical fruits dares you to surrender to an allegory with deeper resonances. The reward is an unexpectedly sober discovery about the creative act of finding and keeping love.

Surrender to an outrageous tropical burlesque about the creative act of finding and keeping love.

Balcony of Fog

Power and fear . . . An unfortunate marriage. Power loves fear and fear loves power; and the unfortunates are us.

Decamp with an innocent toiler and his mysterious female companion to a metaphoric world in the clouds—a strange, vertiginous perch that reveals startling insights about the twisted dynamics of love and power.

Cast off into the clouds to experience the conflict between the power of love and the love of power.

Rin, Tongue & Dorner

Our dream . . . to burn till there is no fuel left

Take a delirious hyper-metaphorical ride with a love triangle into a fiery cosmos. Shapero’s outer space uncannily mirrors inner space, daring us to ditch our expectations and probe the depths of human desire.

Take a fiery, hyper-metaphorical ride into the red-hot depths of buried passion and the combustible inner workings of human desire.

Arms from the Sea

Like men, gods have dreams.

Escape with a disaffected young sculptor from a desert dystopia to “heaven,” a blue ocean realm ruled by a perverse, tentacled god with a mysterious purpose. Your trust may be outraged, but dive deeper and you’ll uncover clues to the creative sea change in our ideals that could redeem a desolate world.

Plunge into an oceanic “heaven” and let a perverse, tentacled god challenge your trust as he guides you toward the redemption of a desolate world.

The Hope We Seek

You want her, don’t you?

Sail north with a sharpshooting telepath and his female companion to a gold-mining camp, whose unhinged boss rules over a bizarre cult. At its center lurks an elusive goddess, who lures us into an intoxicating metaphoric netherworld where aspiration will unlock an unearthly reward.

Dare to descend with a mercurial goddess into the depths of an allegorical gold mine to unearth the redemptive power of passion and belief.

Too Far

Dream, Robbie, dream.

Blaze a trail with two wayward kids as they explore a private forest whose supernatural potentials illuminate the triumphs and follies of desperate imagination.

Explore a mystical northern forest and discover the promise and cruelty of what it means to grow up.

Wild Animus

A bliss beyond fear.

Quest with a young idealist for a bliss beyond fear in an unforgiving visionary wilderness, whose ruling deity portends sublime love or self-destruction.

Leap into a wild visionary landscape where a meeting with a seismic god augurs a bliss beyond fear.