Dreams & White Horses

Lesbian Sci-fi fantasy novel.

Someone ask me the other day – ‘If you are a writer and a lesbian…Shannon, how come you’ve never written a love story?” I had to laugh, because this was obviously from someone who’s never read any of my scripts, as all of these ‘stories’ are ultimately a love story in one way or another. Billy ends up with the ‘french fry girl’ in MEN IN THE PILLOW. In SHOOT THE MOON, Jeff ultimately falls in love with his family. Even Sarah, in MODEL FAMILY is in love - she’s in love with her family and her world and doesn’t want to lose it.

But, okay…I got the point - how come I’ve never written a Lesbian Love Story and I thought about it and decided – okay, why not a lesbian love story….but not just any lesbian love story. It has to be the best lesbian love story…thus Dreams and White Horses was born.

Three things I love are: anything mystical and magical (i.e. psychic phenomenon, paranormal, spiritism), women, and sci-fi (not necessarily in that order). The thought that I might combine them all into a great lesbian love story seemed rather challenging but I thought I might be up to the task.

Seeing as I’ve always loved Jean Auel’s ‘Clan of the Cave Bear’ and that whole entire series, which although considered historical fiction one can draw out a whole lot of conclusions from her main character, the first ‘white person’, the first Anglo Saxon – what about the first lesbian Jean! She was stronger, athletic, smarter and well, let’s face it she was a lesbian. 

Also, fascinated by Jane Roberts ‘The Seth Material’ and all of that series including Jane’s books she wrote (minus Seth) such as ‘The Education of Oversoul 7’ I thought what better way to incorporate all of these things into a love story than combine all these elements of historical time and places, up to and including now and then include such things as the future and parallel universes as in an ‘Overlord 7’ type fashion, where the main characters meet up with each other as different recarnational lives throughout time and beyond….

Our characters are SoulMates destined to meet throughout time – a world away and sometimes only 2 doors down. Sometimes they meet up and sometimes they don’t and sometimes they get it just right. Mind you throughout time sometimes they are male/female, sometimes they are female/female, so it doesn’t make for a total lesbian love story, but it’s close.

It also enable me to incorporate several small short stories that I had, into a complete narrative but combining them all into a theme – that these 2 soul mates, live many lives and yet still seem to be drawn to each other in each life.

More later on Dreams…