Wet Medicine Dreams

“Wet Medicine Dreams” is Kim Campion’s second collection of short stories about sex, violence, aliens, and personal and planetary growth. There’s a lot of westerns in this one. Inside you’ll find a lonely prospector who falls in love with an alien way out in the woods one night, a young vegetarian cowboy and expert pistolman out to avenge his family’s death, a little girl who has an interaction with Bigfoot in the future Glacier National Park, and some other more contemporary stories like one about an injured Afghanistan veteran who gets better and becomes an organic farmer, a woman who gets abducted by aliens and they use their healing butt probe to fix her intestines damaged by celiac disease, and one sci-fi story that takes place in Kansas in 2097. In all these stories the heroes triumph and grow while encountering trippy manifestations of reality.