Title:                 Lonely Nightmare

Author:             Justin Glasser

E-mail Address: Feedback happily read and

                        answered at Julan777@aol.com

Rating:              R for violence and adult situations and language

Category:         X/UST

Spoilers:           The story takes place between Never Again and Memento Mori.

Keywords:       Mulder/Scully UST, X-file

Archive: Gossamer, yes; Ephemeral, yes; Spookys, yes; all others please ask first.  This story can also be found at my website:  http://geocities.datacellar.net/justinglas

 

Summary:         After Scully comes back from Philadelphia and before she is diagnosed with cancer, she and Mulder go to Wisconsin to investigate the disappearance of several small town teenagers.

 

Disclaimer: No permission has been granted, no money has been made, no infringement is intended.

 

Dedication:  This story is dedicated to Marguerite, because even though time and chance happen to us all, not all of us handle it with such grace and strength.  For a remarkable woman.

 

This story was written at a white hot pace, and would have suffered immeasurably without the enthusiasm and aid of some key people.

 

Marguerite

 

Jordan--who is the be all, know all, and end all of editting and under whose guidance I have learned the benefits of dreams, and the importance of what is not said.  (I have also learned not to bug someone who says your story is “perfect, post it NOW NOW NOW” because even though she’s not right, she will not change her mind.)

 

JourneytoX--who despite being deathly ill, agreed to help me dot my “i”s and cross my “t”s.

 

Dawn M. Pares--who when I showed her the draft said “I hate you” and “let me do a read for you.”  I like her for the former, and I’m grateful to her for the latter.

 

Meredith--whose help I enlisted on a totally different story that she still hasn’t seen, and who shifted gears admirably when I sent this instead, turning it all around in such a short time that I stand back in awe and appreciation.

 

Notes (in case you care): 

 

“Because you’re lonely in your nightmare, let me in.”

 

The title of “Lonely Nightmare” and all of the chapter titles for the story come from the song “Lonely in Your Nightmare” by Duran Duran.  Duran Duran, for those of you who don’t know, was (is?) a cheesy pop group most famous in the 1980s for such hits as “Hungry Like the Wolf” and “Girls on Film.”  They were an awesome group, frankly, and I highly recommend that you check them out (especially the Decade album, which has all their greatest hits). 

 

At any rate, in a fit of nostalgia, I was listening to their second album, Rio, when I heard the song “Lonely in Your Nightmare” and the idea for the story came to me, complete, whole, and entirely finished in my head.  I wrote the whole thing in three days.  And I hope you like it.  I will spare you the pain of enduring them here, but if you would like the lyrics to “Lonely in Your Nightmare,” (even if you hate the story) please feel free to e-mail me: there can never be too many people who like Duran Duran in my opinion.  J