Guest Post: The Dream
I wanted to write a little intro to this story and explain why it is the way it is—but first, and intro to the intro: When Rachelle asked me to write as a guest blogger for her blog, I had absolutely no idea what to write about—trust me, my life is not as interesting as Rachelle’s, nor am I as charismatic as she is, but at some point she suggested that I could write a short story, something that I have done before and that I enjoy doing. So short story it was…Now, short stories are always weird, but I think this one is a little more bizarre, and that’s because it is based off a recurring dream I had a few years ago. The bizarreness is not so much the content in it, but the form itself. There are a lot of shifts and abrupt transitions like real dreams. The idea of writing a story based on a dream is not that original—I think Stephanie Meyers said she based her books off a dream she had, and G-d forbid this is anything like Twilight —but the reason...