Lost in a Field of Paper Flowers
By Gord Rollo
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Your name is Robert Moore but everyone you know calls you Robbie. You’re an abused young boy lying comatose in a hospital bed, lost to the real world.
Within your damaged mind you are also lost, trapped in a massive farmer’s field of your imagination’s making. In this special, perhaps magical place you are confused and afraid but you’re about to find out that although you may be lost…you’re certainly not alone.
Lost in a Field of Paper Flowers is an approx. 4500 word short story that can also be found in Time & Space Vol. 2 by the same author.
Gord Rollo
Gord Rollo was born in St. Andrews, Scotland, but now lives in Ontario, Canada. His short stories and novella-length work have appeared in many professional publications throughout the genre and his novels include: The Jigsaw Man, Crimson, Strange Magic, Valley Of The Scarecrow, The Translators, Only The Thunder Knows, and The Crucifixion Experiments.. His work has been translated into several languages and his titles are currently being adapted for audiobooks. Besides novels, Gord edited the acclaimed evolutionary horror anthology, Unnatural Selection: A Collection of Darwinian Nightmares. He also co-edited Dreaming of Angels, a horror/fantasy anthology created to increase awareness of Down’s syndrome and raise money for research.
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Lost in a Field of Paper Flowers - Gord Rollo
Also by Gord Rollo
The Jigsaw Man
Strange Magic
Valley of the Scarecrow
The Translators
Crowley’s Window
The Dark Side of Heaven
Peeler
Gods & Monsters Vol. 1
Time & Space Vol. 2
Flesh & Blood Vol. 3
Copyright © 2016 by Gord Rollo
Marcela Transmuting © Gord Rollo and Gene O’Neill
Memories of a Haunted Man © Gord Rollo and Everette Bell
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system without permission in writing from the author.
This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance it bears to reality is entirely coincidental.
Published by Ashbury Creek Media
Ontario, Canada
Book & Cover Design by Adam Geen
www.adamgeen.com
LOST IN A FIELD OF PAPER FLOWERS
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering,
how we can turn it into good? So shall we take occasion, from
one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
-- Leigh Hunt (1784 - 1859)
A teenage boy lies in a coma.
Fell down the stairs, bumped his head.
Ask his father, standing by his bedside. He’s telling everyone that’s what happened.
Don’t ask the poor boy’s mother, though. No, not her, she’s far too busy crying.
* * *
Existence #1: Dreamland
Hello?
Can anyone hear me?
There’s fear in your voice. No panic, yet, but definitely a hint of alarm. At first this strange dream had been thrilling, running and playing in this massive field of orange-red dirt; something you’d never have been able to