Welcome to the release day of the Dreams & Nightmares
Anthology featuring the awesome writing by D.X. Luc, C.E. Black, Amy Gregory, Danita
Minnis, Kenra Daniels, Jennah Scott, and of course, Charlie Daye!
Dreams and nightmares are like twilight; that
misty place between fantasy and reality.
When your mind takes you on an adventure you didn’t
sign up for and you become someone or something else, it can be delectable,
terrifying, or both.
Dreaming of that sexy bad boy who seems out of
reach? Be careful what you wish for, sometimes dreams really do come true. If
you have the time, we have the past life to seduce you. Whether your fantasy is
a lustful mermaid, an irresistible incubus, a vampiric predator, or an
insatiable ghost hold on tight. You are on the most erotic ride of your life.
When your desires blend so thoroughly with the
truth that you don’t know the difference, that’s when romance is but a dream.
My story for the anthology is titled “Across Everlasting”
and there’s quite a story behind it.
About fourteen years ago I packed everything up and moved across country
with two friends to live in Hollywood, California. I knew I wanted to try to be a writer, and at
the time I thought I wanted to write screenplays. I diligently read books, got a job in a
post-production house, and tried to go to parties to “mingle”. I even had some success, although nothing too
big. I was an intern for Morgan Freeman’s
company and it was my job to read screenplays and write impressions. And I helped write a segment for the MTV
Movie Awards. Cool, huh?
But I quickly learned I didn’t like writing screenplays
because they are very constrictive in how to unfold the drama. Regardless, I had written three
screenplays. One was titled “Paper
Kisses” which I turned into a novel. Another
was called “The Treasure Hunters” which I’m still trying to turn into a
novel. And the last was called “Across
Everlasting”. When Charlie asked me to
be a part of this anthology, I knew exactly what story I was going to submit.
Blurb:
Kellen Tavist has had the same dream almost all her
life. A dream of battle, of war. Of loss.
During a Halloween séance, she and her friends try to conjure the spirit
of a departed loved one. Instead they
conjure a ghost from Kellen’s past life.
Unnerved, as well as a bit skeptic, Kellen’s life begins to
unravel. Not only are her dreams growing stronger, but someone seems to want
her dead. As she tries to figure out her
past life, freelance journalist Raney Williams tries to figure out what she saw
that warrants shutting her up forever.
The past and present are intertwined and she can only have a
future if she can figure out the conflicting feelings that have come across
everlasting time.
Excerpt:
“Tell me about this spirit,” Mary
said.
“It’s
comforting,” Kellen replied softly. “Yet
it’s warning me. I can feel it’s
terrified. For me. It’s worse than when I died.”
With a loud
cry, she is thrust out of the vision and out of the trance. Kellen looked first at Mary and then at
Raney, who sits with his mouth open. His
eyes are dark with some type of emotion she couldn’t identify.
“What did
you see?” Mary asked.
Kellen
reached up and wiped the tears off her cheeks.
“My death.”
Without another
word, she rose and grabbed her purse.
“Please
wait,” Mary said. “You need to talk
about this.”
“No,”
Kellen said. “I need to forget.”
She left
the shop and made a beeline for her car.
She was almost there when Raney grabbed hold of her arm and brought her
to halt.
“I don’t
want to believe!” she snapped at him.
“I
understand,” he said calmly.
That took
some of the wind out of her sails. “But
I don’t know what’s going on. I don’t
understand what’s happening to me.”
He pulled
her to his chest and cradled her. She
closed her eyes, pulling in his warmth and strength. He felt so good…so right.
“I may not
know all what’s going on but I think I know who you saw that night on your
balcony.”
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