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Lisa Morton “The Lucid Dreaming” 2LISA MORTONTHE LUCID DREAMINGCopyright © 2000 (short story) by Lisa Morton, novella copyright © 2009Artwork copyright © 2009 by Zach McCainAll rights reserved. No part of this work may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without the written permission of the Author.
Lisa Morton “The Lucid Dreaming” 3
A NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR
“The Lucid Dreaming” began life as a short story written for an anthology of post-apocalyptic fiction. It was an early work for me, and received one of my two mostinteresting rejections* - one of the anthology’s two editors (who is a highly respectedauthor in the speculative fiction genres) actually called me to tell me that he loved thestory, but he knew his co-editor would turn it down because of the more horrificelements. He was right, but that rejection meant more to me than some acceptances (andthe book, as it turned out, never materialized).For years the story languished, until I decided to look at it again. I gave it to my writinggroup, and received back an almost unanimous “You need to expand this!” I’d beenlooking for a good novella idea, and realized they were right.If you read both this original short story and the final novella, I think you’ll be intrigued by the changes and additions. For some reason I can no longer fathom, Los Angeles isnever named in the short version, and the road trip aspect is missing. Many scenes have(of course) been considerably expanded. Now that the novella has been published, I’ve heard a few cries of, “This should be anovel!” I’m happy with the tale at its novella length, but who knows…my head might not be finished with Spike and her world yet.Stay tuned atLisaMorton.comto find out.And thanks for reading.-- Lisa Morton* - My all-time favorite rejection is still the one I received for a story…
six months
after the same magazine had published it. I kept that one.
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