Spontaneous Choices Adventures: Dreamer Shores

By Shannon Muir

Breah runs from a past she desperately wants to escape. When her car runs out of gas at the seemingly idyllic ocean side town of Dreamer Shores, an artist sweeps he off her feet and she thinks a new life may be ahead... but new struggles may have just begin. This book compiles the first three installments previously on the web with a new fourth episode exclusively in this collection!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Shannon Muir
• Release date: Mar 15, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370140022

Shannon Muir

SHANNON MUIR's short stories include suspense and mystery elements such as those found in her first full-length story from Pro Se Press, CHARLES BOECKMAN PRESENTS DOC AND SALLY IN "THE DEATH OF BUDDY TURNER". Additionally, she's written short stories for Pro Se Press such as “Tragic Like a Torch Song” in THE DAME DID IT from Pro Se Press, "Pretty as a Picture" in the anthology NEWSHOUNDS, “Tropical Terror” in CRIME DOWN ISLAND and “Hidden History” in EXPLORER PULP. She’s also written the Single Shot New Pulp tale “Ghost of the Airwaves,” a short story offered in electronic format only from Pro Se Press.From her personal self-published projects, her best known titles in this area include the rural crime series THE WILLOWBROOK SAGA.In other genres, Shannon's published short stories include “Meeting the Monster” in the Emby Press anthology SUPERHERO MONSTER HUNTER: THE GOOD FIGHT and "Cover Story" in ARIA KALSAN: MYSTERIES OF THE FUTURE.Shannon holds a BA in Radio-TV and English from Eastern Washington University in Cheney, Washington, which she considers to be her hometown. She also holds an MA in Communications from California State University, Fullerton, along with additional education in screenwriting, project management, library technician studies, and most recently a certificate earned with distinction in General Business with Emphasis in Marketing from UCLA Extension. Currently, she is working on a Masters of Library and Information Science at San Jose State University.She is married to FLYING GLORY AND THE HOUNDS OF GLORY collaborator and fellow author Kevin Paul Shaw Broden. They live in California in the United States.She is a member of Sisters in Crime (national, Guppies, and Los Angeles, where she also served on the Los Angeles board for a two terms beginning in 2018), as well as the Toastmasters4Writers Chapter of Toastmasters International (where she serves as chapter Secretary), Women in Animation, and a Professional member of ASIFA-Hollywood.

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COPYRIGHT

SPONTANEOUS CHOICES ADVENTURES: DREAMER SHORES

An INFINITE HOUSE OF BOOKS Web Serial Compilation

By Shannon Muir

Smashwords Edition

Copyright 2017 Shannon Muir.

First Smashwords publication March 2017.

This ebook is for your personal enjoyment only. It may not be given away or resold to others. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please purchase your own copy from Smashwords or partner vendors. If you want to share this work with others, please purchase a copy for each person. Thank you for respecting the hard work of artists and creators.

Cover design by Shannon Muir and Kevin Paul Shaw Broden.

All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

COPYRIGHT

TABLE OF CONTENTS

AUTHOR’S NOTE

EPISODE ONE – Welcome to Dreamer Shores

EPISODE TWO - To Dream in Dreamer Shores

EPISODE THREE – Illusions in Dreamer Shores

EPISODE FOUR – Fantasies in Dreamer Shores

ALSO BY SHANNON MUIR – THE PHOENIX COLLECTION

ALSO BY SHANNON MUIR – THE HEART’S DUTY COLLECTION

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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AUTHOR’S NOTE

With DREAMER SHORES, I ventured into new territory as an author. This served as my first attempt at serialized web fiction trying to create the idea of a soap opera on the printed page, in small installments similar to the radio days. I found it to be challenging, and even when I pre-plotted out things the characters tended to take me down ways I never thought of until doing the final typing.

By the time I reached installment four, I realized things about its style didn’t lend itself to doing the short serial format. This included the incorporation of Breah and her poetic song lyrics. Also, the story wasn’t driving much in readership even with easy to find links and a feed on the main SHANNON MUIR’ INFINITE HOUSE OF BOOKS page. Looking at all those factors, I decided to collect these four episodes – of which only the first three previously appeared on the web – for readers to enjoy on a device they choose, in a style and time of their convenience.

Thank you for taking this journey with me, and I hope you enjoy the story.

Shannon Muir

Glendale, California

March 2017

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EPISODE ONE – Welcome to Dreamer Shores

Breah looked down at her gas gauge. The tank showed dangerously close to empty, and nothing familiar showed in sight. She’d packed up with very little - just a few clothes, her cell phone with an e-reader packed with books, and Breah’s prized acoustic guitar - and completely left her old life behind. Breah tired of not living up to other people’s hopes or expectations. They wouldn’t let her be who she knew she needed to be, but instead wanted to mold her into whom they desired she should be.

She’d done well in school, loved reading books and studying whatever she could learn. Breah really didn’t feel she needed more in her life right now, but others around her had different ideas. She knew she could make it on her own given the chance, and now felt compelled she’d need to make her own chance happen or it would never come to pass.

Breah scanned the road signs ahead to see if there’d be anyplace she could get off and maybe find some gas at least. She didn’t know the area at all.

The only sign that stood out to her read: DREAMER SHORES, Next Exit.

Breah didn’t have any idea what Dreamer Shores, but it was either go find out or be stranded on the side of the road.

She really didn’t prefer the latter option.

Breah pulled off the highway to head to Dreamer Shores. She thought it wouldn’t be long until she found something, but first came several miles alongside the ocean coast with only a public beach.

She wanted so desperately to stop and see what everyone was doing. Maybe she’d meet some new friends among those playing beach volleyball or playing in the sand. However, there didn’t seem to be resources there.

Yet, if she didn’t stop, Breah might run out of gas and then be stuck struggling for help who knew where.

She decided it would be safer to pull off and see if anyone could give good leads or advice, even if it didn’t feel comfortable to her.

Breah feared meeting new people. It took a lot for her to just walk away from all she knew, that’s why so much didn’t come with her. At some point, people probably would find her. She just didn’t want to make it easy for them.

After all, everyone around her already tried to control her life. Breah wanted to live her own dreams.

Breah remembered how it all began.

She’d walked down the busy nighttime street, hoping to get lost in the crowd. That definitely was a plus when one wanted to disappear. She’d worked hard to set everything up to make it look like someone abducted her, and hoped the effort would keep them looking long enough for her to completely slip away. The only giveaway might be that her