Do you love alternate realities or other worlds?
As a young reader, I couldn't get enough of them, although they looked something like this:
And now they look more like this:
In The Mirror People (my contribution to the Parallels anthology), my other world looks like this:
The concept started out as an idea: What if it was someone's job to mimic their reflection? I sat down to write and these words glared back from the computer screen:
Every day I stare into the eyes of a cold-blooded murderer.
Well THAT wasn't a direction I'd considered going. Regardless, I had to see who this narrator was and what was going to happen to him. Jak appeared on the page and I have to say, he's one of the best characters I've ever had the privilege of transcribing. (I say transcribing because our journey together didn't feel like writing. He told me his story, no reservations.) What if two dimensions were actually dependent on one another, but only one side was aware of the relationship?
Yeah, bend your brain around that one, eh?
Do you have a favorite dual reality story?
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The concept started out as an idea: What if it was someone's job to mimic their reflection? I sat down to write and these words glared back from the computer screen:
Every day I stare into the eyes of a cold-blooded murderer.
Well THAT wasn't a direction I'd considered going. Regardless, I had to see who this narrator was and what was going to happen to him. Jak appeared on the page and I have to say, he's one of the best characters I've ever had the privilege of transcribing. (I say transcribing because our journey together didn't feel like writing. He told me his story, no reservations.) What if two dimensions were actually dependent on one another, but only one side was aware of the relationship?
Yeah, bend your brain around that one, eh?
Do you have a favorite dual reality story?
(Remember, comment and be entered to win one of 10 copies of Parallels.)
