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    Lucid Dreaming: February 2014
    Lucid Dreaming: February 2014
    Lucid Dreaming: February 2014
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    Lucid Dreaming: February 2014

    By Darryl Wood

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    Enter our dreams and ask afterwards if it was just a dream. We include selected short stories and vignettes in various genres from writers across the country. Quality is the only criteria for inclusion. The February issue includes, "Evil Eyes,” where a performing arts festival is disrupted by floods, a murderous dancer, and political wrangling, and “Collision,” the story of an accident, and what it takes to be the one who walks away.

    This issue also includes a bonus short, "The Heist," as well as previews of two stories, "The Green Room" and "An Octopus Swimming the Worst Ocean," in the March issue.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDarryl Wood
    Release dateFeb 10, 2014
    ISBN9781311570543
    Lucid Dreaming: February 2014
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    Darryl Wood

    I enjoy journeys, both physical and mental. As a child and young adult, libraries took me places. Later, bookstores opened more doors for me. Whether into the past with histories and novels, across the country or the planet with culture and society books, exploring deep space and BEM’s (Bug-Eyed-Monsters) with science fiction, understanding individuals with biographies or learning about the world around us with non-fiction science and political science, books allowed me to travel to the most wonderful place – my imagination. Those journeys have molded me, made me the person I am and affected how I interact with others during my trip through life.I want to share my imaginative ramblings with you and hope you will reflect upon those trips and tell me about your own flights into that place of deep thought or fancy. I hope you enjoy my trips enough you’ll want to savor them again and again by owning complete versions. And telling your friends about the places we go to on these pages.I was born and raised in Tampa, Florida having attended five different elementary schools, Memorial Junior High and Hillsborough High School. My first real journey was to Ogden, Utah where I attended Weber State College (now Weber State University) and completed a Bachelor of Science with a major in History and Secondary Education. The last postcard on a bulletin board – was it chance or fate that made me glance there – moved me again, this time to Binghamton, New York where I completed an MBA/MA in History (American) at the State University of New York at Binghamton (now calling itself Binghamton University although it went through a number of iterations before it reached that title).It was at Binghamton that I began my most important journey, meeting and marrying the most important person in my life, Toby. Together, we brought three children to adulthood, raised goats, sheep, chickens and bees, grew bountiful crops (especially zucchini – I still have some if you’re interested) and made a home for ourselves.I worked over thirty years at Binghamton University as a middle level administrator (I used to think of myself as a ‘petty bureaucrat’) first in one of the schools and then at the Anderson Center for the Performing Arts before retiring and then embarking on a new career as a labor relations specialist advising union members and leaders at four State University of New York (SUNY) campuses in upstate New York.Although I came to writing later in my life, I have always read voraciously and written some. My first novel, still untitled and unedited, was written in the mid-80’s. Bitten by that bug, I wrote my second novel, Good Man, Bad Man in 2009 and a third in 2010. These last two were written as part of NaNoWriMo Nation Novel Writing Month). I also have participated in a writing group, Triple Cities Writing Group locally where we do ‘prompts’ every Saturday.

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      Book preview

      Lucid Dreaming - Darryl Wood

      LUCID DREAMING:

      Dreaming and knowing you’re dreaming.

      Enter our dreams and ask yourself afterwards if it was just a dream. We include selected short stories and vignettes in various genres from writers across the country. Quality is the only criterion for inclusion.

      Published exclusively as an e-book in all formats, Lucid Dreaming will be published ten times a year. Check your e-book sites for both upcoming and old issues.

      Editing and proofreading by John Wojcio

      Cover art by John Nickle, http://www.johnnickle.net/

      Cover design by Jorge Naranjo, http://heyjorge.com/

      © 2014 by Darryl M. Wood

      Individual authors retain all subsequent publication rights.

      http://www.dwoodwords.com

      Smashwords Edition

      This e-book is a work of fiction and is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. It may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Contents – February 2014

      Contributors

      Evil Eyes

      Bonus Short: The Heist

      Collision

      March Issue

      The Green Room

      An Octopus Swimming the Worst Ocean

      January 2014 Lucid Dreaming

      Good Man Bad Man

      Contributors

      Darryl M. Wood is on a journey. It began during childhood in libraries and in books and continued as his interests in various genres and other cultures expanded. He explores ideas in his writing, blending his own experiences with his imagination. His word-travels focus mainly on contemporary fiction/family sagas.

      Glen Gonzalez received a B.A. in creative writing from the University of South Florida. His poetry has appeared in the Tampa Bay Review and White Mule.

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      Evil Eyes

      Darryl M. Wood

      It was a disaster!

      Max always used unnecessary hyperbole. I looked at him and said, I’m not so sure. The audience loved the performance and dealt with the problems reasonably well.

      It was still a disaster! Max insisted. He glared at me, then that visage transformed into a smile. I need a report before I can meet with the board. Write one for me!

      Max made demands, not requests, although his tone of voice could be disarming and ingratiating when he wanted something. This time he more than wanted something; he desperately needed it.

      Fine, I’ll have it in your hands by Friday – four days.

      Phil, I can’t wait for it; I need it tomorrow morning. I know you can do it. You’ll be able to take Friday off if you want.

      Arguing wouldn’t change his mind even if the board meeting wasn’t until next week. OK, I’ll work on it today and see what I can do. This’ll take me some time.

      He smiled again, placed his left hand on my shoulder and squeezed. You won’t disappoint me. Turning, he walked out of my cubbyhole of an office and left me staring at the art print on the wall, the image of a stallion captured in brief Chinese brush strokes. Closing my eyes, I could see it racing across a white beach, far away from rural upstate New York and the devastation of the last two days.

      At least Max was playing to my forte when he asked for a report. I’d written lots of those for the owner of the real estate firm in Ithaca where I’d been employed for over thirty years. When I took this job managing the front of house for the newly renovated Penatello Theater in the Finger Lakes region, I hoped

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