The original title of this story was "Fall Prey To The Weather In a Beautiful World."
I chose this title because I invisioned the late 80s era Thom to be the main character of my story. A scavenger scrapyard boy with raggedly cut strawberry blonde hair, always with a worn-out rucksack, never with shoes of any kind (impractical, I know).
He would eventually write the song creep, of course - but this time not about a college girl.
I didn't have a suitable title that fit with the theme of the story, so as I rewrote creep, I realised that line was perfect.
Or so I thought.
See, as of writing this, I have just listened to the April 28th performance of Daydreaming live in Lima. You can find it on YouTube, but I have linked the full live set here.
While I listened and tried to fall asleep (as I have for the past 20 days) I was struck with an epiphany. "Daydreaming" was the perfect name for this story.
It's quite self-explanatory to those who have already read this as to why; there's not much character building as much as there is worldbuilding up until the last chapter, which I will not spoil.
Enjoy, or don't. No pressure :D
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Daydreaming
Adventure"Dreamers, they never learn." Thom is a young boy who loves his life in the rusted wastelands of corrugated iron. He has everything he needs to survive: food, water, his guitar, his Walkman, and an imaginary band. Any links to real people are purely...
