Click to view on Amazon Dreaming, Not Sleeping was first published almost 3 years ago. When I discovered the rights to the story had reverted to me I pondered what to do with it - whether to stick Dreaming back under the bed to gather dust, as I almost did when I first wrote it (until someone kept telling me to get on with it and submit it), or put the story back out there. After all it is just a short story...however, I've chosen the latter, making no changes other than the cover - despite wishes from fans of the story for it to be longer - a story should only be as long as it needs to be (and...always leave them wanting more :-) ),  Dreaming, Not Sleeping is a short, sweet, and sinful nightmare...I hope.

Excerpt:
So, I'm here. There's no turning back.

A few steps farther off the path and I will be consumed by the dark. A few steps farther and I will be embraced by the forest, wrapped in the musty smell of decay, held in its damp caress. A few steps farther and I will be lost forever.

Fallen twigs snap beneath my feet. Leaves whisper conspiratorially as I brush past. Twisted branches snatch at my face, scratch my cheek, draw blood. I press my fingers first against the wound, then against my lips, tasting the ferrous stain on my skin. I can hear my own breathing, my own heartbeat, over the wind whipping through the canopy of trees above me.
Not long now and I'll see him. Not long now and I'll be held softly in his arms and loved in a way I have only briefly tasted but often imagined

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