Getting Creative

Thursday, November 1, I’ll begin drafting the second book in the Two Moons series, tentatively to be named Memories of Memories. To warm up my creative juices I dashed out a bit of flash fiction based on the same world (Duorth) and concept (everyone remembers a past life on Earth) as the novels.

Let me know what you think:

Course Correction

by RE Johnston

Tina awoke reeling from a dream like no other. She had truly
been alive!

At the helm of a sailboat she had fought howling winds and
crashing waves wrapped in a darkness lit only by lightning. In the storm it was
not she, Tina, but the earlier she, Gloria, the woman she was in her previous
life. On Earth.

This was a Gloria Tina had never before met.

Like all kids on planet Duorth, in her teens Tina began
having recollections of her first life.  Dreams
precisely played back Gloria’s memories. Dinner parties hosted for customers. Foreign
trips spent in convention halls. Evenings contemplating brandy in crystal
snifters. And always, a man named Charles who could never be forgiven.

Gloria had excelled in the art of selling industrial adhesives.
Most of her adult life was devoted to neither family nor joy, but to adhesives
and the money adhesives could provide.

Invested with Gloria’s memories Tina had prepared for her
own life. One more year of business school and Tina would embark on a carefully
planned second life of adhesives sales.

But now came this new dream. Waves and wind struggling to break
the mast and rip the tiller from her hands while her seamanship and willpower held
Nature at bay. Why had Gloria abandoned this exhilaration?

Oh. Charles.

Tina thanked Gloria for guiding the way forward for their
second life.

Let adhesives pay for their real life.

And never let a Charles take it away.

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