Hawthorne CA – 4/30/2026 – Parker Publishers has announced the forthcoming release of WTF’s in La La Land: An Anthology of Dreams, a collection of over 30 dream narratives by Anthony Elfonzia. Elfonzia is a retired firefighter from the Cleveland Fire Department and a SAG-AFTRA actor currently based in Los Angeles. The book is scheduled for publication in 2026.
Elfonzia spent over 20 years in the Cleveland Fire Department before relocating to Los Angeles to pursue a career in acting. As a working member of SAG-AFTRA, he has continued to build his creative practice across performance and writing. The impulse behind the book, however, predates both careers. For more than 2 decades, Elfonzia recorded his dreams, first in notebooks and on scraps of paper, later through voice memos on his phone, capturing fragments of each experience before they faded. The project began as a private exercise in memory and evolved, without a plan, into a manuscript. The book is dedicated to Dolores O’Bryant, his spiritual advisor, who asked him during their first meeting, “Where is your book?” It took him 20 years to answer that question.
The transcriptions preserve the raw, spoken quality of each recollection, including false starts, self-corrections, profanity, and moments where the dreamer loses the thread of the memory mid-sentence. The result is a book that reads less like traditional literature and more like an audio transcript of someone speaking into a recorder at 3 AM, trying to hold on to images before they dissolve. Chapters are numbered non-sequentially and carry titles drawn from each dream’s most distinctive image: “Crystal Bowl Kung Fu on the Back of a Firetruck,” “Bees in the Cow’s Head,” “The Clockmaker’s Warning,” and “Midget Killer,” among others.
The collection spans genres without intending to. Some entries read as action sequences, with armed yacht takeovers and underground tunnels leading to subterranean cities. Others function as quiet domestic scenes: 2 estranged brothers reconciling at a family gathering, or a man searching through a closet full of ruined shoes before a function. Several entries take the form of post-dream conversations between Elfonzia and a second person, presented as dialogue transcripts that capture how 2 people process a shared dreaming life.
Among the longer entries is “The Dream Master,” a 3-part narrative that reads as a self-contained speculative fiction piece. It follows 2 men on opposite sides of the world, one who dreams the future and one who dreams the past, whose visions begin to overlap until they are drawn to the same church in southern Spain along with nearly 100 other dreamers. Another extended entry, “The Second Coming,” presents a comedic and surreal reimagining of Christ’s return, continuing across a second chapter as a group of neighborhood children map a road trip through American towns named after biblical locations. The collection also includes “Garbage Wars,” a fully realized utopian concept in which the United States redirects its military infrastructure toward policing illegal waste dumping across the world’s oceans.
“I never set out to make sense of them in a traditional way,” Elfonzia writes in the preface. “There are no symbols decoded here, no attempt to prove what dreams mean. Instead, what you will find are raw retellings, spoken into being and preserved on the page.”
The book does not offer dream interpretation, psychological analysis, or symbolic decoding. Each chapter ends with a quotation about dreams from figures ranging from Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung to Edgar Allan Poe and Fox Mulder. Elfonzia positions the collection as an exercise in dream recollection and encourages readers to keep their own dream journals.
WTF’s in La La Land: An Anthology of Dreams is forthcoming from Parker Publishers. The book will be available through major online retailers, including Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Publication details and release date will be announced on soon.
About the Author
Anthony Elfonzia is a retired firefighter from the Cleveland Fire Department and a SAG-AFTRA actor based in Los Angeles. He spent over 20 years documenting his dreams through voice recordings, notebooks, and handwritten notes before compiling them into his debut book. Outside of writing, Elfonzia continues to work as an actor and artist in Los Angeles. WTF’s in La La Land: An Anthology of Dreams is his first published work.
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