To sleep, perchance to dream
Invited to a class by parties unknown, Alison is about to have the ride of her life.
On one hand, I wanted to hold off on posting this for various reasons - mostly because in terms of The Class, I haven’t written anything else. There is another Lucid story that you will get to read at some point, but that is a different angle to this world. This is the next step in developing some more anthological story telling chops. Several serialised stories told in conjunction with each other.
This was always going to be the first thing I published in this world. It is a good way to set the scene; set up the general idea of what’s happening and use it as a way to explain to you the various concepts I want to have in play.
I like this piece for a couple of reasons; number one, it doesn’t really have a genre. I can lean into the creepy aspect of this world. Let Paul describe the state of the world and the dreamscape. I can focus on the relationship angles, the obvious being the Alison/Dane combo, but Paul will have different relationships with each student as well, and each installment1 will have a different student as the POV character; perhaps Paul sometimes too.
Secondly, I get to do that thing I love to do and just drop massive things with z e r o context. Dreams as psychological torture? Hospitals? WHAT THINGS? Just more things for me to write, right?2
I don’t know how many threads this rub will be made of, there are two definite ones I want to pull on for now, but there are certainly many others I could play with. I think, for now, sticking with the two I know is the best way forward. Populate them a bit and see if anything else grows out of it - stay tuned to the Daily Writing; you’ll see the first snippets of me playing with concepts over there. Or maybe I already have? Another of my 12 projects3, perhaps?
I love being excited about a project like this.
Lucid: The Class was originally written on February 01, 2023. It has 1490 words.
Lecture? Class? Something appropriate like that
Who is Paul?
See the minor comment I made in yesterdays Daily Writing post