Dreams Unwind
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| Title: | Dreams Unwind |
| Publisher: | Bookhouse Press |
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| Author(s): | L. Gray |
| Cover Artist(s): | J. Calvin Smith |
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| Date(s): | February 1997 |
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| Genre: | slash |
| Fandom: | Twin Peaks |
| Language: | English |
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Dreams Unwind is a slash 345-page Twin Peaks novel by L. Gray.
The art is by J. Calvin Smith.
The novel includes many items of fictional ephemera, including articles, bills, and letters.
Portions of this novel previously appeared in PowerStar: The Imagination Anthology.
Summary
From a flyer: "Recovering from his ordeal in the Black Lodge, Cooper searches for Harry Truman's long-missing wife in the hope of somehow also finding his own peace of mind. In the search he learns more about Twin Peaks and finds a more intimate relationship with Harry."
Author's Introduction
Take my advice: never, never write a novel.
I give this advice knowing it won’t do any good. It wouldn’t’ve done me any good if anyone had given it to me [though since I had never written anything longer than 50 pages before this, I doubt it would even have occurred to anybody to advise me thus]] because I didn’t intend to write a novel. I intended to write a short story . . . well, maybe a long story . . . simply because I was pissed off about a Twin Peaks story I’d read. But a novel? No, I couldn’t possibly write a novel.
But the story wouldn’t let loose. I wrote other things in between times, but I kept coming back to the novel (or, as it is affectionately known at our house, the Damned Novel) And things kept occurring to me, things I had to write. Not, you understand, things I particularly wanted to write, but things I had to write if I was going to be satisfied with the end product, things like the repercussions of the bank explosion. I had to deal with them simply because DL&MF left them there for us to trip over.
[snipped]
I read the Access Guide like some people read the Bible. The only trouble is, now I’m an atheist. Oh, my love for Twin Peaks is unchanged, but I’d like to have a word with those responsible for that piece of misrepresentation - preferably in a dark alley with my hockey stick. Considering the number of inconsistencies it’s quite obvious that the concept of “show’s canon” meant nothing to those people, which I have always considered to be a sign of incredible disrespect to the viewers. Finally I just chose the information I wanted to use & ignored the rest.
[snipped]]
Excerpt
"Ed nodded, looked at Hawk. "Where do we start?"
"At the end. With the ring."
This answer intrigued Cooper, but he waited patiently for the two men to coordinate their conversation. Finally Ed said, "Harry was married a while back."
"Divorced?" Cooper was surprised; somehow he couldn't picture this. Hawk and Big Ed looked at each other, then Ed said, "No, it's more complicated than that."
...
"Libby disappeared."
There was something about that simple statement that sent a chill down Cooper's spine. "What do you mean, disappeared? You mean she left town?" Hawk gave him a long look, then rose, walked to the window, and stood looking out, as if disassociating himself from the conversation. Ed looked at him helplessly for a moment, then shook his head. "No, she didn't leave town.
She disappeared. Vanished clean off the face of the earth."
