History

As weird as this might sound, this story originated from a recurring dream I'd had since I was little. One afternoon I was bored and had nothing else to do, so I started writing down what I remembered of the dream. As I did, I started thinking about how it might continue... and before I realized it, I found myself writing this story.

I worked almost non-stop on it for over three years, then I got bored and abandoned it. I took it up again after two years, rewriting everything and translating it from Italian (my mother tongue) to English as I went on. After a while, I got bored again.

Soon, however, I got interested in it again, and I continued it, again changing a great deal of it, especially names and relationships between the characters.
Here are some tables that compare the different aspects of the three redactions:
§ Names of the main characters (863x189 .jpg, 45.5KB, opens in new window)
§ Relationships between the main characters (800x579 .jpg, 71.6KB, opens in new window)

And, just for kicks, here's a scan of the first paragraph of the story, in the very first redaction (825x210 .jpg, 46.4KB, opens in new window).