Dolphin Dreams
by Lyle Nicholson
Niklas Okkenon, a professor of electrical engineering at a small university in Finland, travels to Cancun, Mexico, to deliver a paper on new breakthroughs in wireless communications. His life has been spiraling downward with a recent divorce and fights with this teenager daughter. Niklas needs this conference and the acceptance of his paper to give credibility to both himself and his university. A series of events collide when dolphins keep Niklas awake at night with their splashing, and they soon enter his dreams. The request they make of him will change his life – if he agrees. Dolphin Dreams is a novella that asks the question we might ask ourselves when we see dolphins in captivity: "What are the dolphins thinking?"