Lost in a Field of Paper Flowers

By Gord Rollo

Your name is Robert Moore but everyone you know calls you Robbie. You’re an abused young boy lying comatose in a hospital bed, lost to the real world. 

Within your damaged mind you are also lost, trapped in a massive farmer’s field of your imagination’s making. In this special, perhaps magical place you are confused and afraid but you’re about to find out that although you may be lost…you’re certainly not alone.

Lost in a Field of Paper Flowers is an approx. 4500 word short story that can also be found in Time & Space Vol. 2 by the same author.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ashbury Creek Media
• Release date: Nov 15, 2016
• ISBN: 9781540109682

Gord Rollo

Gord Rollo was born in St. Andrews, Scotland, but now lives in Ontario, Canada. His short stories and novella-length work have appeared in many professional publications throughout the genre and his novels include: The Jigsaw Man, Crimson, Strange Magic, Valley Of The Scarecrow, The Translators, Only The Thunder Knows, and The Crucifixion Experiments.. His work has been translated into several languages and his titles are currently being adapted for audiobooks. Besides novels, Gord edited the acclaimed evolutionary horror anthology, Unnatural Selection: A Collection of Darwinian Nightmares. He also co-edited Dreaming of Angels, a horror/fantasy anthology created to increase awareness of Down’s syndrome and raise money for research.

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Also by Gord Rollo

The Jigsaw Man

Strange Magic

Valley of the Scarecrow

The Translators

Crowley’s Window

The Dark Side of Heaven

Peeler

Gods & Monsters Vol. 1

Time & Space Vol. 2

Flesh & Blood Vol. 3

Copyright © 2016 by Gord Rollo

Marcela Transmuting © Gord Rollo and Gene O’Neill

Memories of a Haunted Man © Gord Rollo and Everette Bell

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system without permission in writing from the author.

This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance it bears to reality is entirely coincidental.

Published by Ashbury Creek Media

Ontario, Canada

Book & Cover Design by Adam Geen

www.adamgeen.com

LOST IN A FIELD OF PAPER FLOWERS

Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering,

how we can turn it into good? So shall we take occasion, from

one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.

-- Leigh Hunt (1784 - 1859)

A teenage boy lies in a coma.

Fell down the stairs, bumped his head.

Ask his father, standing by his bedside. He’s telling everyone that’s what happened.

Don’t ask the poor boy’s mother, though. No, not her, she’s far too busy crying.

* * *

Existence #1: Dreamland

Hello?

Can anyone hear me?

There’s fear in your voice. No panic, yet, but definitely a hint of alarm. At first this strange dream had been thrilling, running and playing in this massive field of orange-red dirt; something you’d never have been able to