Jessica Waters
ASIN: B00KG09HIU
Publisher: Lamplit Street Press
Pages: 46
From Jessica Waters, author of the Blood Commands series comes of a sci-fi fantasy novelette.
After the twin peoples of the longlorn star were forced from their worlds by the sky-witch and resettled on a distant and unnamed planet, they stopped dreaming. It took a long time for anyone to notice. Things were busy. Cities had to be built and farms planted. The protective shield which would hide them from harm was devised and constructed. Old grievances were resurrected, resolved, and resurrected again. Eventually, a brilliant scientist found the answer; he designed large transmission towers that projected dreams into sleeping minds – for a fee. The manufactured dreams, however, were pale imitations: graying ghosts where there should be vibrant figures. People didn’t want to pay, so the towers were left to rust, mostly. For years, no one thought about dreams much at all, until a young ...