Dream Chaser Archives: A Novella

By Nels Lindahl

This book was written during three or four different writing sessions during summer to fall of 2000 in Lawrence, Kansas. Principle editing and production of this novella occurred more recently. I transferred the content into an eBook friendly word processing document and went to work on editing it from start to finish. This book is a work of suspense or thriller category writing of fiction. It is not my best work and really showcases my writing style before I considered being more descriptive during the process of telling a story. You can really get a sense for how this story was just moving along and the details faded as things progressed. Digital publication seemed the best way to release this novel. This publication is part of my ongoing effort to release a few of my older writing efforts as eBooks.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Jan 15, 2022
• ISBN: 9781716008160

Book preview

It takes someone willing to work just beyond the edge of what is possible to accomplish something meaningful.

~ Nels Lindahl ~

Dedication

To those who look at what could be and thread the needle to get there…

Table of Contents

Dedication

Prologue

Dream chaser – Part I – The Void

01 – The Void – Constantly Running

02 – The Void – Just Working

03 – The Void – The Dream

04 – The Void – Always Searching

05 – The Void – Only Moments

06 – The Void – Working Harder

07 – The Void – The Success

08 – The Void – That Feeling

09 – The Void – Those Sometimes

10 – The Void – Falling Apart

11 – The Void – Everything Fits

Dream chaser – Part II – The Agency

12 – The Agency – All Hope Is Lost

13 – The Agency – The Pieces

14 – The Agency – How the Pieces Fit

15 – The Agency – Missing the Link

16 – The Agency – Foreign Training

17 – The Agency – Discovering Jack

18 – The Agency – The Campaign

19 – The Agency – Powerful Friends

20 – The Agency – Small Victories

21 – The Agency – Retirement

22 – The Agency – Corporate Illusions

23 – The Agency – The Final Misdirection

Dream chaser – Part III – The Company

24 – The Company – Recruitment

25 – The Company – Foundations

26 – The Company – Priorities

27 – The Company – Chasing

28 – The Company – Headhunter

29 – The Company – Travel

30 – The Company – Contacts

31 – The Company – Payments

32 – The Company – Business

Epilogue

About the Author

Dear reader,

This book was written during three or four different writing sessions during summer to fall of 2000 in Lawrence, Kansas. Principle editing and production of this novella occurred more recently. I transferred the content into an eBook friendly word processing document and went to work on editing it from start to finish. This book is a work of suspense or thriller category writing of fiction. It is not my best work and really showcases my writing style before I considered being more descriptive during the process of telling a story. You can really get a sense for how this story was just moving along and the details faded as things progressed.

Digital publication seemed the best way to release this novel. This publication is part of my ongoing effort to release a few of my older writing efforts as eBooks.

Dr. Nels Lindahl

Broomfield, Colorado

Colorado Springs, Colorado

January 13, 2022

Prologue

Notes: This project has been completed, drafted, and rewritten several times. If you were going to label one of my works an insomnia (hypergraphia) piece, then maybe this would be the one that most deserves that label. This draft is the result of countless nights without sleep. Some of the project was written during the sleep wars with Jimmy.

Perspective: Some people enjoy a simple introduction before the start of a novel with the author’s notes and a little perspective on what is about to happen. I try to be a well-behaved author, so I added some notes to help in the preservation of my own sanity and to appease a certain class of reader.

Dream chaser – Part I – The Void

01 – The Void – Constantly Running

Was it happening again? I could only feel the sting of my face in that moment. All my fears rushed into my head at the forefront of my thoughts. What was I thinking about before? Everything at that one moment had become familiar. Did you know that eventually familiarity could easily become contempt? That moment made me feel as if I had already experienced the sensations before. Sometimes it is as simple as a glance at the wall. Other times it is as complex as knowing what is going to happen just before it does. What makes that feeling so gripping is that it does not come out of nowhere it springs out of small patches of dreams that I have.

Some people experience time moment by moment. They are the lucky ones that know each day starts with limitless potential. Some people can find that moment and then see what is going to be. They can sense or feel or know what is about to happen. Moments from the future can happen in a way that makes them feel like the past when they happen with prior knowledge. Sometimes a moment can rip through me distracting me from what is going on and leave me dazed sitting and thinking about what I have missed. Some people find this to be the hardest part of the process. The hard part is not knowing if this is reality happening in the moment and not a dream. It ends up feeling like you are not even alive. It breaks you from appreciating anything that would even resemble surprise.

Breaking away from one of those dream chaser moments, I realized where I was. Standing in the hallway looking at the people walking around, it was all too familiar the shadows and the sounds. Even the mundane whining pulse of the lights straining had all happened before. That feeling of repetition always captured my attention. I was not sure if it was the night before or even the day. I had been staring at this day for a year or so now waiting to find out what happens next. It reminds me of looking into a mirror and watching yourself change, it feels real, but you know it is only an illusion.

I could see myself, walking past the same vending machine that always made that same weird humming noise. Somebody yelled, If you don’t get that bucket of ice! I turned and looked into a room. I had told myself to avoid that room at all costs. She was standing by the bed looking at something. Once in a while I try to ignore a dream only to find out that nothing changed and somehow the same events would happen. After years of living in this haze, I knew that it did not matter if I avoided that room.

Without even having to think about it, I fall into the routine repeated in my dreams. I really do not have any idea what it was that pulled me into the room. It all happened as if I was in a daze, but that daze was really more a part of life than a condition of things by this point. The bathroom door swung open and a large, tall, and angry individual burst out shaking what had to be a gun at this other much smaller person. When you know what happens guns do not bother you anymore.  People with guns seem more like targets and less like threats. At least you know where intentions of violence are being signaled.

I walked straight through the door without blinking passing the girl without even having to look in her direction. She was going