Polaris by H. P. Lovecraft

A dreamer finds himself in a strange northern city beneath a pale star, where he is called to serve in a great war. But dreams and reality blur, and his failure may doom the world he cannot prove existed. Polaris is one of Lovecraft’s early tales of cosmic insignificance and dream-travel. Poetic and melancholy, it evokes both beauty and despair. A haunting story of identity, illusion, and fate.