Dreams Less Sweet
Pages: 95
Welcome to the land of your dreams, your perfect life, your perfect partner. A world with no worries, no troubling thoughts and the freedom to create your own environment as you truly wish it. That’s what Dream Co™ had promised but living in the reality was so very different.
Kaleb should be living happily ever after in a world where everything you wish for can happen. His wife is a cyborg version of his anima, programmed to meet his every whim, his negative thoughts can be drawn away from him at the end of each day and the world is a beautiful place. But Kaleb is suffering from a deep depression and he doesn’t know why. He isn’t the only one; this dark depression is fast becoming the biggest national disease. As an employee of the government’s Department of Dreams, it is his job to work out why.
Watching him from afar are a strange order of monks one of whom, Frater Ra, has been sent to investigate the encroaching darkness and how it conforms to an ancient prophecy which indicates the world will slip into total chaos.
But the Dark is growing in strength and it has a believer in the form of a young woman called Evangeline who is prepared to mother its child and bring about the end of light and order. Through her belief, it can gain a shape and substance and become a living powerful entity.
Do the answers Kaleb is seeking perhaps lie in the outlawed books of psychology and magick? Can he fight the very authorities he is part of and risk destroying his mind in order to find a solution? As the Dark gains shape and form, time is running out and Kaleb has the fate of humankind’s sanity in his hands.
Dreams Less Sweet is a novella of approximately 28,000 words with elements of fantasy, horror and science fiction. It explores how governments ignore the moral questions posed by science, using it to further their own ends with consequences they cannot control. It is about the line between sanity and madness and how each of us crosses that boundary every day.
Free from: 2013-05-14 to 2013-05-16
