The Chris Voss Show - The Chris Voss Show Podcast – S.R. Longshore’s Muse-Dream Mysteries by S.R. Longshore

Episode Date: April 11, 2026

S.R. Longshore’s Muse-Dream Mysteries by S.R. Longshore https://www.amazon.com/S-R-Longshores-Muse-Dream-Mysteries-Longshore-ebook/dp/B0FWRZ42H9 This book contains three very different short novels of mystery and determination. The first story is about a little boy who is set on discovering the secret of a door. He feels somewhat like an outcast but believes that once he makes the discovery, he will be famous and well liked. However, he has no idea how much the door is looking for him. The second story is about a man who loves a woman so much that he gives up everything to be with her. Together they flee only to end up back where they began. This takes place in a kingdom not of this world. The third one is about how people go on with their lives, consumed with their own agenda without realizing the consequences of their actions. Later only to find out that their consequences turn out to be more than what they could have ever imagined. Plus there are two bonus reads. The first one is about a young girl who feels disconnected and unfulfilled. Unaware, she has a peculiarity which in turns puts everything in perspective and is often her saving grace. The second one is about a woman on vacation with her husband. They initially decide to visit a remote area after leaving his family’s home. But later, she is not sure if she has had a bad dream about the place or a severe warning.

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and maximize their book success. Dear Amazing lady on the show, we're going to be talking about her books. Her latest one is SR Long Shores, Muse Dream Mysteries by S.R. Longshore. Who knew? She wrote the book and self-title. We're going to get into what this book is about, some of her experience being an author, writing, and all that good stuff. She was born in Norfolk, Virginia. The author is a shy and somewhat introvert who is drawn to mystery, suspense, and humor. When she was young,

she would daydream and write stories from her dreams. When she got older, she found their actual dreams are far more imaginative. But she had a relative who she would often share her dreams with. She was told that reminded her the days when she would listen to radio stories. So her relative encouraged her to write. Oh, man, this is so awesome. This is how view streams came about. And boy, I wish more people would do that. Some people, you know, they discourage people. They go, oh, you should name. What are you doing to do being at her? You know, don't listen to those people. Welcome to the show. How are you, young lady? Fine. Hi. Thank you for having me.

Thank you for coming. We really appreciate it. Give us any dot com's websites wherever you want people to get to know you better on the interwhips. Right now I just have a Facebook page. I'm just starting out and I'm a little bit older. So I'm just getting used to all the electronic stuff like my aunt who encouraged me to write. She was kind of always back in the day and so am I. And I'm trying to get up with all of the new stuff that's going. So right now I have a Facebook page. You can find me at New Street. these mysteries or you can find me at Sherry Longshore. That's what the S thing for.

Do you want me to call you Sherry during the show or SR? It doesn't matter. Either one, I've been called a lot worse, so one of those fits fine. We've been on the internet for 18 years or 20 years on YouTube. They call us all sorts of stuff over there. So I'll call you Sherry. Sherry, correct? Yes, sir.

Just want to make sure I pronounce that. Give us a 30,000 overview, Sherry, of what's inside this book? There are five mysteries. three main stories and two bonus trees, but they're all mysteries, and they all come from my actual dreams. Some of my dreams are repetitive, and some of them are just so intense

that when I wake up, it's almost like I didn't know I was dreaming. It's like I live a different life. So there are five different ones. Would you like me to go through each one? Let's go through. Please. Okay, let's see.

Let's see if I can get them in order. Okay, the first one is called, touch not. And this is about a little boy who's an orphan. And he's kind of misplaced. And he feels like he's heard this story about a tree all of his life. And somehow he feels like he's drawing to this tree. And this tree is odd and is different. And he can relate to that. And somehow he feels if he gets to see this tree, it would kind of help him to feel like he belongs. And actually, the tree is kind of looking for him as well. So that's the first one.

The second one is her name is a noe. This is kind of like in a alternate kingdom where there's a prince. There's a king. And then there's a princess. And she is in love with this man of valor who works for the king. But the man of valor does not love her. She has a handmade. And her name is Annoi.

And what he tries to tell the princess that he doesn't love her, but the princess doesn't want to hear it. She's full. She's the only child of the king. The king had a son, but the son was sickly and didn't make it, and the wife dies. So the king really dotes on his daughter, and he's used to giving her everything that she wants. So when she can't have this young man, she vows to have him and the handmade killed. And so they run away. Okay.

It's nice. Yeah. In the running away, they run into all of these different areas. The kingdom is divided into five different regions. And so they run from the main region. And there are four others that center around the main region. And each region they run to, they have to keep leaving because there is a problem. And they run so much that they don't realize how long that they have been run.

And when they get to the final region, the people of that region let them know that they have to go back home. And actually, when they go back home, they find what they were running for the whole time. Now, the people are not normal people. The people are part animal. And they mutated because during the kingdom, they needed different type of characteristics to help develop the kingdom. So the people thought the best way to develop these characteristics is that they would inject animal blood in them. For example, some ejected pig blood for a reason. Some injected gorilla because gorillas have certain characteristics that they need.

And so forth and so forth. And this became a problem in the kingdom because they began to despise one another. the different animal people like being to despise one another. So they broke out into their own separate regions. And that's why there were more than one. It wasn't a main kingdom anymore. And that's where the people tried to run to have some type of sanctuary, but they didn't find it until they went back home.

It's a love story. And it doesn't look like it's going to end well, but it does. And a love story with animal blood. That's always my favorite. If you inject the blood, do you get the attributes of the animal? was that my understanding correctly? Yes, you get some attributes, and sometimes you get a little bit more than what you bargain.

Oh, yeah. There's always a Pandora's box, right? He opened that thing. You're like, oh, this looks great. Like that scene of Arc of Lost Raiders, where at the first they're like, oh, this is really magical. The arc opened, and then it gets weird.

And I love that. I love Raiders of the Lost Art. And the next one is called In With a Flash. Oh. Yeah, and With a Flash, it's kind of talking about in times. And the reason why I wrote it like that, because that's exactly how I dreamed it. I dreamed that the world was coming to an end. But before it came to an end, there were these creatures

that came to redeem some people before it exploded. But where they were going to redeem them to was not a nice place. And these were all the people that were left. All the good people had kind of already been drawn away and the people that were left were going to another place and it explains why they were going to that place. And so this story is more about people going on with their daily lives, their daily concepts of things and not realizing that a lot of their actions and consequences have reactions that they are not expecting. It's because they're so used to live in a certain way they think is normal. But in the end, they find out that is not normal. almost at all. And they have to pay a high price for it. And that dream, that story is as close to

my actual dream as I could get. It was very terrifying. I woke up. I was sweating. I had to look around. I wasn't sure what was going on. I was like, is something getting ready to happen? But I mean, that dream was really frightening. And it was hard for me to write because I did not know how to get it, to get my readers to experience what I felt. that dream. And I think that's my hardest part is to get you to feel what I actually feel. But that dream was very terrifying.

Oh, yeah. It sounds like it. Yeah. Yeah. You know, it's, and was that all five? I'm sorry, said it again. Was that all five? No, that was number three. The fifth, the fourth one is the gift.

This dream is that one day, and I know this is going to sound a little crazy, because my stories are basically fiction. But some of them mirror a little bit of nonfiction. And this one has the most nonfiction in my fiction story. One day I was looking at somebody and I don't want you to think I'm like, but I was looking at somebody and I thought I saw like this aura,

this presence hovering over somebody. And I actually had like a daydream, a vision that there was something there telling me that something was going on about this person. So in my mind, I decided, oh, my goodness, what can I do to help this person? That was really weird experience I had. And I wrote a story from there. But I put a lot of my own personal, actual experiences in there. Like I talk about, I use a young lady, and I think I use women more because I am a female, but I talk about this young lady and her mother dies when she's, and my mother did die when I was young.

And I talk about how, when I was at the cemetery, that the luring of the caskin in the ground was very traumatic. And I almost passed out, or she almost passed out. she and that really did happen to me. And also there's another part in the story that happens after her mother dies. She senses something and that really did happen to me. So there is a lot of truth within that story. So that story was more developed out of nonfiction and fiction, but I made it into a fiction story.

Wow. That's pretty wild. And that's the third or fourth? That's the fourth story. It's called the gift. And a lot of people don't comment on that one as much because it gets a little deep into the spiritual realm, but I had to write it in the way that I actually kind of saw it. Yeah.

Yeah. So that one's a little, maybe a little bit more on the controversial side, as well as with the flash because you're talking about in times, but that's how I dreamed it. And then the last one is called a trip. This was the one that my aunt loved. I used to tell her about this story all the time. It was a constant repetitive dream. And I think what was amazing about this dream was while I was dreaming it, I had a dream within my dream.

Oh, wow. Yeah. It's about a couple who goes on a trip deep down south and they're going to like a Mardi Gras or something like that. And on the way home, they decide to stop it, a bed and breakfast. There's in this part of the town where the family is from, actually the husband's family is from, there's a lot of folkblood and there's a story that goes around. They actually have a little song or a little saying that they say about it. And so they don't really think much about it. The wife does a little bit more than the husband, but the husband just kind of brushes it off.

Oh, you know, these people, they are backwoods, don't pay them any attention. but then they decide to stop at this bed and breakfast and that's where all these strange things happen and they go on a like a ferry boat ride and that's when the wife has a dream why she's on this ferry boat and that's exactly how I dreamt that I was on a ferry boat ride and while I was sitting there and the people were talking to me I went into a daze and what was so amazing about this dream, like I said, not only was it repetitive, I could wake up, go back to sleep, and I would pick right up. Really?

Yeah. I have some of interesting dreams. It's like I live two different lives sometimes, and sometimes I dream so heavy that when I wake up, I'm tired because I've been living. You're not getting any good sleep, really. But, you know, I've learned to enjoy. enjoy it. And I guess being a loner, it gives me, I don't know, makes me different. It's like I don't know. I just have something else to look for this other life that I live. Now, I don't do it as much as I did when I was younger, but I still do it. And the only regret I have is that I didn't write more of my stories down because I've had so many dreams and they're all different, every last one. And I can't, my imagination is strong, but it's not that strong. to come up with these completely different stories.

So that's my one regret that I didn't start writing early. But nobody even told me or it just never came in my mind. That's something I would do. Even though I would read other people's stories, I never thought that that's something I would be doing or I should be. Yeah. You know, I think we all have kind of these weird imaginative things or subconscious brain gets bored when we're sleeping.

So it plays movies, makes it. And it's really interesting. some of the stuff they do is I'm falling asleep. I'll start getting weird stuff. And sometimes I'm just like, what the hell of you, are you on today? Yeah. Like, where did you come up with that stupid, bearish crap? And then I've woken up from dreams and I'm like, this would be a great plot for a horror film.

But, you know, you got to write them down fast because they sometimes. Exactly. You do. Yeah. Exactly. You do. What went on with that? Yeah. It's pretty crazy. the different things that are out there. And so now that was all five, right? I want to make sure

I didn't cut you off of finishing the five, right? No, no, that was all five of them. Yes. And so how do you, how do you just keep a pen of paper next to the bed so that you're ready to write it all down when you wake up? You know, I do, but I don't. I have a big calendar on my wall. And what I do, if I wake up kind of like stunned, I get up and I write it down on the calendar to try to job my memory because if I don't write something down that reminds me, I smelled the dream. Two or three days later, I would have forgotten all about it. Oh, wow. Yeah. It's, and imagine you pick up a lot of emotion, you know. I've had, I've had, I've had girlfriends that they'll have a dream about how I'm cheating on them, and they'll wake up and start

hitting me. And I'm like, yeah, what's going on here? And yeah, it's so real for them that, that I cheated. And I think the emotion, too, presents a new level of realism. You know, as guys were little logic and reason-based. And, of course, no one wants to lose their person there, they're trying to be committed to, I guess. But, yeah, I mean, sometimes those dreams are so real. I, you know, I've woken up with those dreams where, I don't know, it feels like you're about to have a heart attack or you're in severe danger from getting killed or something, you know, whatever it is. And then you wake up and you're just like, God, I was like too real. And, you know, I've talked to a lot of people and they tell me they don't dream at all or they dream, they forget it,

They don't remember. And most people tell me that they have dreams like they're falling. And they always tell me, oh, if you hit the ground, you know, that means something's bad that's going to happen. But I had a couple of those. But I had one dream, not the only one, but one in particular, that it really came true. And that made me, my hair stand up more said, I have to start writing this down, keeping a little long. Yeah. Did it make it into your book, that story?

No, you know, I haven't decided. Now, maybe some of it, I may put it in my book, but no, this really happened. It happened to a relative of mine who passed away. But the dream was so frightening that when I woke up, my husband, he works overnight. And he came home and I was just sitting on the bed staring. I'll never forget it. It was a Saturday night. I was getting up to go to church and I could not talk.

And my husband kept asking me, what is the matter with you? And I just kept shaking my head. I just could not talk. I was that frightened. So I got up. I got myself ready for church like I always do. I got to the church. It was a very small family-owned church.

I was sitting down and usually I'm the type of person I don't like speaking in front of. of people at all. But the lady kept staring at me and she says, longshore, you look like you want to say something. Do you want to say something today? And I shook my head, yes, and I could not believe the inside. I was saying, no, I don't want to say anything. But I shook my head, yes. And do you know when I stood up, that was the first time I could speak that morning. So I told you. I told you, the church about my dream. Now, picture the church congregation. It was very small and most people were senior citizens. I was the youngest person about the youngest person there at that time. And I began to tell them what I dream. And after I finished speaking, I looked around at

those like eight elderly women and they all were like, and I thought to myself, oh, my, My goodness, I'm going to give them a heart attack. I just couldn't believe it. But they were literally frightened. Now, that's one part of it. There are several layers to this dream. The whole time, I was cold as ice. It was a summer day, and I was freezing.

I could not warm up. And this one lady, and I don't know how much detail you want of it, the story. But this one lady came and told me why I was so cold. She ended up telling me that later on that night, because in the church congregation, we had a Sunday morning service, and then we would have an evening service about 6 o'clock. So I came back at the 6 o'clock service because I could talk then. And she pulled me to the side, and she told me something very specific. And I just looked at her. Okay, about three days later, I found out why I dreamed what I dreamed because my dream actually kind of came true.

It did come true. Not exactly in the way I dreamed it, but why I dreamed it. And I was just stunned. I mean, my mouth dropped. I could not believe it. So that is not the first time it happened to me, but it was the most dramatic time it happened because of the way I frightened everybody and the thing that the lady told me. I mean, these dreams, I think it's so great you've turned these into a book and you're writing

them down and catching them. Do you ever do anything that prompt dreams or nightmares eat some weird stuff like a bunch of taco bell before a bunch of sour pickles or you know, some sort of thing that will conjure up some crazy stuff? Not at all. I have a crazy work schedule. And sometimes I don't have a chance to eat. I eat a lot of fruit because it's something I can pick up real quick. You may not notice by my size, but no, I don't do anything that's weird or out of the ordinary. It just happens when it happens.

I can go a few weeks with nothing or I can just have a little pleasant dreams like I'm skipping through the field or something like that. And then all of a sudden, bam, here comes a crazy, crazy dreams. dream. And I'm like, what in the world is going on? But nope, I don't do anything to provoke it. It's been that way all of my life. When I was in elementary school, I wrote this story and I moved in the papers. I was hurt because somebody destroyed my papers, didn't realize what it was. But when I was in elementary school, we had writing contests. And there was a three-tier table, first lower-tiered. was third place, second tier, of course, was second place. And the top one tier was one story, and that was first place. And I'll never forget it. Mine was called the Headless Driver.

Yes. And I won first place, and it stayed first place until somebody trumped me down for about three weeks. We had it once a week, and my story stayed first place. So this has been, ever since I was little and I grew up in a very old-fashioned home. You didn't eat after a certain time. I witnessed we had to be in bed by a certain time. So nothing crazy is just, it's just how I'm wired. See, folks,

this is what happens when you make your kids go to bed on time. They get crazy nightmares and they become a crazy author. And so what we all do. I got there. Anyway, no, I mean, I really wish I could capture some of my dreams. I think I've written like little,

email notes to myself in my half-a-sleep, you know, remember that, and I'll give it like a keyword or something, you know, and then I get on my email later on. I'm like, what the hell's going on last night? I don't know. What are you, what are you referring to? And so it's great that you're able to capture it. Maybe you're showing those dream catchers over your head. You see those circle things, the Indians you see is Native Americans, they would hold a dream catcher above their heads and or you put above your bed or doorway. I think you put it in place. protect your entrance or something. I don't know.

I don't know how it works. I'm clearly not a dream catcher coach at this point. Yeah, me either. I actually had one of those. It's in the living room. Oh, no, yeah. I don't know how. You need to move it right above your head there when you're sleeping.

Well, have you ever dreamed like somebody was looking at you? And when you woke up, somebody was looking at you. I had that experience. I'm dreaming that somebody was staring at me. And when I woke up, there was my husband. He was just staring right at me. I was like, why are you looking? Why are you so close?

And he said, you were making a weird noise. I was trying to see if you're okay. But when I dreamed, it wasn't him. But when I woke up, it was him. And he was looking in the exact same place the other person. So you never had that either? No, I have it sometimes where people wake up and they go, I can't breathe. And I'm like, yeah, it's because I have a pillow over your face.

And they're like, oh, I thought that was a dream. No, I really have a pillow over your face. face. No, I'm just kidding. Don't do that, folks. But no, I have the huskies. And my first huskies, and my first husky was this big black, black and white, Siberian husky. So she could disappear into the dark because she was mostly black. And, and so I would sleep on my side on the bed, on the right side, and, you know, I'm facing that. And she would come up, and she was, she was a big husky. She was a granddaughter of a Diderot racer. So she had those sort of genetics. She was really wolf. And she could move around. You and, you and,

You wouldn't know where she was. No, she was just, they were just, you know, I was like having a wolf. So there was a few times where I would be laying in bed, and I'd either be asleep or be like kind of in that mid zone,

where you're not really asleep, but you're kind of, but you're kind of, yeah. And I would feel like, I feel like someone's watching me. And I'd open my eyes and there in the dark would be her, you just see like the nose and her face and her eyes.

And that's about all you see because it was dark. Yeah. And she's pitch dark. And she just be looking. and you just be like, what the f what? Jeez. It's like waking up looking at a wolf who's like going, I'm thinking of this one.

Just looking at me. And she did that a few times. And I was like, I'm like, don't do that. I'm trying to kill your old man. But mostly, so you do include some factual stuff in your stories, I guess, that end up happening or some of the things that go on in life. Yeah, I did. I included things that actually happened to me. And my few friends that read it, one who has known me for a very long time, when she read the story, she picked out the things that happened to me. And I asked her, I said, why did you know? Because I didn't tell her. And she said, I just know you so long. I can tell that you really did that or it really happened to you. Yes. So I use some factual stuff to help fill it out. But some of my dreams I don't need to because they're so crazy. I have so much information.

I don't know how to put it all together. I want to cut it off at a certain point because I don't want my stories to be too long. Yeah. Plus you have to be like, plus you have to be like, you know, is anybody, you know, who hurt you? But, you know, I wonder, you know, who's that guy, Carpenter, John Carpenter, the guy who writes all the scary movies, like the thing and stuff. I think it's John Carpenter. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong. But I know I just heard they were filming the thing too.

now, that one movie that we originally had, I think Kurt Russell in it. And so that's why he's kind of top of mind. But, you know, him, between him and Stephen King, you're just like, who are you people? Like, what's going on there, man? I wonder how much of their stuff they pull from dreams. I don't know. You know what? That's, I wonder, the same thing. And it's funny that you mentioned the thing, the one with, oh, I forgot his name, but that is my favorite movie. Oh, my goodness. I love that movie. And, Also, I wonder if they pull some things from factual because some of those things, they can't make up because I've dreamed the same thing. And not only have I dreamed it, I dreamed it before I saw the movie.

And so when I would be watching the movie, I'm like, oh, my goodness, they've had the same either. How can two people that don't know each other, we've never met, we've never talked, and we have the exact same vision. I said some of that, oh my goodness, it's not a coincidence. It has to be something there. And I'm one of those people that believe there's something more there than we can see, know, or understand is something else. We're not driving force behind it. Yeah, driving force behind it.

You know, maybe there's some sort of telepathic dream system going on that we don't know about where people are, you know, sharing dreams, eh? Wouldn't that be weird? You know how like some people, I think people that have done movies on this where people discover their twins. Maybe it was Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito. Certainly they didn't look like twins, did they? No, but I think Arnold Schwarzenegger stole all of his hype. But Danny V's a great actor.

I don't mean, you think about that. He's a great guy. But, you know, maybe, maybe you could, I mean, this might be a book here or a movie, you know. And, you know, like they, you, what was that one movie Inception? There's a couple weird-ass movies lately that I, I can't even stand to watch them because I'm like, do I have to be on drugs and acid to watch this movie? Because I don't understand what's going on. But, you know, maybe there's a good movie out there for people who find each other.

And they're like, did you dream? I didn't know the same dream. I didn't know the site. Yeah, I did. Who are you? Bob, and I'm Joe and I live around the corner or something. And maybe it's a sign, eh? And then they meet other people at the bar or something.

They're all in the same dream. You know, maybe the dream is they're supposed to go someplace and they all go there, like a calling. You remember what was that one thing? Close the counter is the third kind, you know, and he's making like the devil's, I think it's called Devil's Mountain in the North Dakota, South Dakota. And he's making this thing with the potato, his wife's going, you're crazy, you're crazy. He's making this mound. And then it turns out it looks like the devil's mountain, whatever that's called it up there. And he's like, I got to go there. You know, something like that. And all the people go there that had the vision or the dream.

There's a book. Somebody, somebody write that book, damn it. You know, there has to be something more because I know you've had this experience where you're looking, but you can feel somebody looking at you from behind. You know, so it has to be something there, some type of power, some type of feeling, because how would you know that you can just turn around and look exactly in the direction the person is staring? Then you have done that, right? Never happens to me. I don't have a great ask most women tell me. So it's kind of fat. So there's no one checking my butt out.

I don't know. Do you regret anything about your stories writing? No, I don't regret anything about my stories. I just wish that had started writing sooner. What I like about my stories is I like the fact that they are clean. Yet I try to keep them interesting. The few people that read it told me that once they started reading it, they had to know how it ended.

And what I also like about my stories, I try to write stories where anybody could find themselves in that situation. I don't like doing things with us about a age group or unless it's pertinent to the story. But I just like to write my stories that anybody can relate to it. Anybody can feel misplaced and longing for something. Anybody can be in love with somebody that other people tell you you're not supposed to love that person. But that's who they love and they're ready to fight for it. You know, so anybody could have lost early in their life and they're like looking for their place in life.

How do I fit in? I see everybody. Oh, smiling and happy. I'm smiling and happy, but it's all surface. I want something deep. Anybody can go somewhere and something weird. happens to them out of the ordinary. So the type of stories I like to write are stories where people can just find themselves. And it's not particular to any region, any type of person. It's just

situational. You know, I mean, Stephen King does a lot of that. He takes something like, you know, you're just wandering around one day and you come across a dog with rabies, you know, and the Kujo, right? That can happen to anybody. You could be, you know, especially on your some remote farm and, you know, And back then, they didn't have cell phones, so you kind of have a problem. But, you know, a lot of his stories are kind of that way. And I think maybe a lot of good horror stories that way. Yeah, you know, they could happen to anybody. And I think that's what makes them even more scarier, right?

It's because you're like, geez, that can happen to me, you know? If it's some weird thing on a boat somewhere in the middle of the Pacific, you're like, I don't go on boats. I think I'm fine. But, you know, especially like basement horror somewhere, I don't know where I picked it up, But somehow we were always afraid of our grandparents' basement. It was cold, dark, and damp, and lights were pouring in it. You know, it was like an old home.

In fact, they built the home in early 1930s, I think, or something like that. And the 1920s, it had this deep basement with this rickety, you know, stairs. Had one fuse. It was one of those old one fuse houses. Yeah, the screwing type. Yeah, yeah, yeah, the screwing one type. When that sucker blows, everything goes. you're like how do we

it was and it was down in the basement so you had to go down there and you know and when lights go out that's when the demons play everybody knows that exactly and you know I was always like I would walk up the stairs backwards as a kid and just be ready to run sometimes we just

run up the stairs and just you know maybe maybe we can outrun the demon who's grasping right behind us but yeah it was always dark it was one of those basements too we didn't have like in Utah now they have big window basements where there was kind of a big window there. But it just had these slits for light.

So when it went dark in there, it was pitch dark. Right. Yeah. So it was kind of like, I don't know, my first 10 marriages. So do you plan on writing another book? I had not, but maybe because now I have written three more stories. But I'm trying to keep them short. And then I have about four more that I have not had time to.

write. I have a very busy schedule and some other things going on too. So it's really hard for me to write. Why I thought that I would not write another book because I didn't want something else sitting on a shelf. I really wanted to get out maybe in the nursing homes or schools or somewhere. I just wanted to read my stories. I wanted people to hear them. And that was my main focus. So in not so much chef life, I just want to go out into community and started reading them to people. So that's why I wasn't focusing as much on writing a book. But I don't know, maybe. I haven't really made up my mind, but I do want to continue writing stories, yes.

Yeah. And I think it would be great. I think you should experiment with ways to trigger nightmares or weird dreams like eat, I don't know, sardines or something, you know, weird stuff. You can muck up your digestion system where you're like, your body's, I'm going to make her pay for this. and give her a weird ass nightmare. You know, fried pickles or something or I don't know what. Some of them are sort of weird. Egg plant, eat like egg plant.

I mean, don't eat leg plant, folks. We're solidly against the eggplant on the show. That's the one. That's the last straw. We don't do eggplant. All my friends are like, yeah, eggplants great, Chris, if you cook it right. Yeah, well, so are dog turds if you put enough honey on them. Yeah, yeah, don't eat eggplant.

Can you tell me? You can tell I was, I have, trauma from eggplants. A childhood forced to eat an eggplant. And seriously, it has no taste. That's why you have to season it. So why eat it? Seriously.

Anyway, one of my friends's wife is from Iran and she loves eggplant. I don't know if that's an Iranian thing or if she just loves eggplant, but she makes all these great Iranian dishes. And they're really great, but she loves eggplant. And I'm like, dude, how do you live with that? Like, I would divorce that woman over the eggplant issue. That would be the non grata for me. So as we go out, hopefully people can look for more books for you.

And I mean, you certainly tap the well there because I, you know, I tried to write my dreams down and keep up with all this stuff. And I don't know, maybe it's because my brain is hemorrhaging most times from all the stuff I do every day. But I can't remember them. So good for you. That's awesome. Thank you. Thank you. And I would like to comment a little bit about the eggplant.

It's not about an eggplant, but it's funny that you said that because one of the, of the stories I wrote is about vegetables. Is it really? Well, maybe we had the same nightmare about eggplant. I just remember, I just remember being fed a couple times. And I was like, what the hell is this? What is this? Well, I'm fried with parmesan cheese.

Very good. Grill with Parmesan. I'll just scrape the Parmesan off. I don't know. I haven't ever liked it. And that's, you know, I like pretty much all. foods, I think pretty much. I don't think there's anything I won't eat, but just eggplant. Eggplants, wherever I draw the line on food. You know, you got to make a stand somewhere,

folks. That's all that. Exactly. Exactly. Sherry, it's been fun to have you on the show. Give us your final pitch out for people to pick out your book. Tell them where they can find you on the interwebs and all that good stuff. Right. Books to Life is republishing my book, so it should be available soon. But if you want a quick read, you can read it on Kindle. On the Kindle. And you can find out on Amazon, on and link will be on the Chris Fos show as well. Thank you very much, Sherry, for coming to the show. We really appreciate it.

Thank you for having me. Thank you so much. Thank you. And check out our book, folks, wherever fine books are sold. SR Long Shores, Mews, Dream, Series. Out what we have on here, October 17, 2025, but I get it wherever refined books are sold. Thanks for tuning in, folks.

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