If Charlotte Rhys Fenn could do it all over, knowing what she knows now, she would be different.
Charley leads a comfortable life with her best friend and perfect match, Michael, a man with whom she shares two lovely pet children (canine and feline), and a home in the beautiful Pacific Northwest. She’s fortunate to have a caring and supportive family, and two amazing friends, Inez and Becks. Professionally, she holds a secure position as editor of a respected healthcare magazine. Her life is settled, as is her future.Acquiring this existence of hers hadn't been easy. For at least twenty years she felt like a wind-up toy, methodically following preprogrammed rules—step one ... step two. She even imagined herself as a minuscule, but essential, cog inside a big machine with the mechanical brain. No matter what she tells herself, it hasn’t helped since another thought flutters through her mind as frequently: Going through the motions is the same as coasting toward nothingness.
It is 2025, the time is right. Technology, in a rapidly advancing world, makes it possible to reimagine the future by recreating the past or, more aptly, by creating another past.
Charley must either embrace her well-earned, sedate lifestyle, or invite a change that could alter her future irreversibly. It's a difficult decision, one that could destroy all she has endeavored for, turning their life not only upside down, but backwards, forwards, and inside out.
Ellison Blackburn is a
full-time designer/web developer of fifteen years. Ironically, she often waxes
nostalgic over simpler days. Her passions include writing fiction and poetry,
painting, and collecting vintage thingamabobs.
Raised in Chicago, she relocated to the Pacific Northwest where she currently lives with her husband and three beastly, furry children.
She is a writer of fiction and poetry and the internationally published author of Regeneration X.
Raised in Chicago, she relocated to the Pacific Northwest where she currently lives with her husband and three beastly, furry children.
She is a writer of fiction and poetry and the internationally published author of Regeneration X.
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Excerpt from Chapter 4:
Dr. Baum
surprised her and suddenly she was glad of his uncommon techniques;
her general discomfort was forgotten. Inez was right, he was very
good. He didn’t tell her what she wanted to hear, exactly,
nor did he just sit around, passively listening, waiting for her to
reveal some deep down mental issue. She hadn’t mentioned the
painting was based on a dream, but he had made another of those
almost psychic connections.
Keeping
in mind his comment about depressing thoughts potentially becoming
habitual, Charley offered the following and hoped it wasn’t
self-deprecating: “I feel as if the things I want from life are out
of my control; chances have passed and now I just have to deal with
the result of the ill-informed or the ill-prepared-for choices I’ve
made. I don’t feel I’m unhappy, I’m just not motivated or
content with a good part of my life.
“Outside
of work I spend a good deal more time ruminating about one thing or
another. Thinking, thinking and doing nothing. If I am being
completely honest, I admit I create projects for distraction, which
seems to give me a mental break for a short time, until I come up
with something else to do. It’s a little obvious—even my husband
jokes about it. And I have problems falling asleep. My dreams are
strange and I wake up unware of my surroundings.”
“I
see. Your mind is very active, but you are not.
“We’ll
get to the details later. For now, tell me of a time when you felt in
control of your life and your ability to make life-altering choices.
You can start anywhere—a memory of a particular moment you revisit
frequently.”
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