The Story that Slept for Decades

After writing the original screenplay on a typewriter in 1987, I put it in a box… and it stayed there. For years. Then more years. Then a couple of decades.

By the time I opened it again, the pages were yellowing, the ink was fading, and the story had basically taken a long nap — a full creative Rip Van Winkle situation. It was like opening a time capsule from a version of me who had no idea what this story would eventually become.

Inside were:

• scenes I’d completely forgotten I wrote

• ideas that never made it into the novel

• characters who didn’t survive the rewrites

• and a raw, unfiltered version of Dream Reality before it evolved into what readers know today

Some pages were missing, some were damaged, and some looked like they’d survived a small natural disaster — but the heart of the story was still there, waiting.

Bringing it into the Special Edition felt like waking the story up after a 30‑year sleep. Those pages haven’t seen daylight since the 80s, and now they’re finally part of the world again — preserved exactly as they were, flaws, chaos, typos and all.

It’s not just a bonus feature. It’s a piece of creative history that almost stayed buried forever.