This artwork is featured in Writers of the Future: Volume 24 as the key illustration for the short story "Bitter Dreams" by Ian McHugh. It is the result of making the final round in an international Sci-fi and fantasy art competition and culminating in a professional illustrators workshop and award ceremony in Los Angeles in 2008. Twelve artists were paired with twelve writers who's collective efforts were published into an anthology of short stories, which continues to be an annual best seller to this day. This story in particular won the grand prize that year. It is set in an alternate 19th century rural Australia and chronicles a small town's struggle in dealing with a supernatural foe, steeped in the Aboriginal Dreaming myths.