You May Say I'm a Dreamer...
by Luna Lindsey
by Luna Lindsey
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| photo courtesy of author |
A time when I believed in magic. A time when I saw faeries.
Years
passed, until I wondered if I'd ever have any use for this childish
reminder. After all, I was too busy working at fast-paced software
companies, living corporate culture, fixing computers and servers to
meet ticket resolution quotas. My brain filled with buzzwords and cold
logic and customer service attitudes, and my hours filled with commutes
and overtime.
The chances
of me even being in a band went to zero, because I didn't write songs
anymore, or find time to touch my piano or guitar. Yet they called me a
"rockstar".
Like most people, I simply didn't have time to live for my dreams.
"Dreamer"
never went away; she merely went to sleep. When the opportunity came
again for me to write, I asked myself, "What should I write about?" It
is no accident that I fixated on that word and what it represented to
me. After all, it had been etched into my arm, tiny and encrypted in
Japanese, all that time.
I look at
all the metaphors popular in Urban Fantasy today: The attraction of
immortality and cold death for vampires. The freedom granted through
bestial loss of control in werewolves. Our desire to kill the shambling
mindlessness of group-think represented by zombies. The self-loathing,
debased evil we see with demons, or the flight of purity on the wings
of angels that have the power to lift us above worldly problems.
Yet for all
these fantastic beings, none captures the feeling of an inner child
trapped within, yearning to break free to find faith in the ethereal,
the make-believe, the product of unrepressed imagination.
There are
some people with an inbred sense of movement and growth. These are
Dreamers. We are people who may settle down, but are never satisfied
unless we are creating. I wanted to write about them.
What does it
mean to believe in faeries? It means loosing the fetters of fear, of
judgement. It means to forget the finger-waggle of mother telling you
not to draw on the walls.
My main
character is a dreamer lucky enough to fulfill her purpose as a local
rockstar, but like the rest of us, she must choose between
responsibility and her music. By day, she helps her friend Sandy with
the cold business of fighting faeries. By night, she plays before
crowds of cheering fans. The demands of responsibility keep threatening
to push her dreams aside.
The fae feed
on the product of such creations, the energy produced by powerful
music, inspiring art, and passionate writing. They are alien beings,
the product of the human subconscious, and as such, their idea of good
and evil is blurred. The fae are barely more than illusions, except
those who are born into human bodies. These faeborn are much more
powerful.
Two have noticed Jina: A korrigan who plans to rend her dreams by force, the other a beautiful elf hopes to lure her with love.
As a hunter, Jina literally kills the
products of dreams, even as she produces them. The choices she must
make in EMERALD CITY DREAMER mirror those which all creative people
make: Do I sell my soul to my boss, or do I use my talents to create
beauty for others to share? It is an awkward balancing act that few
manage to pull off.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Luna
is an indie author located in Seattle, WA. Her first story (about a
hippopotamus) crawled out of her head at the early age of 4. Her mom had
to write it down for her. After running out of things to say about
hippopotami, she switched genres to sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. During a
ten-year break from fiction, she primarily wrote non-fiction and became
an accidental expert on mind control, computers, and faeries. After
returning to fiction in 2010, she now publishes ebooks and seeks
publication in short story markets. She has written over thirty short
stories and three novels.
AUTHOR LINKS
Rock
star Jina Harper hunts faeries with her friend Sandy. As they learn
their new profession, Jina discovers the faeries have been hunting her.
One falls in love with her, and Jina must make a choice.
Sandy's trauma
has led her to alcoholism. She must lead her small group of faerie
hunters and make the hard decisions every leader must make – even if her
obsession blinds her to the truth.
Jett is an elf
who rules a household of faerie misfits. When she discovers hunters
have returned, she will do anything to protect her clan.
Ezra is a teenage boy who thinks he is a
demon. He's been adopted by a fringe Christian sect who still do not
know his true nature...
These characters all live in the city of Seattle, and will inevitably
meet. When prey hunts, who will lead the chase, and who will run?
PURCHASE EMERALD CITY DREAMER
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