The Dreaming Stone series by Jane

[boothros.livejournal.com]

Apart from the original zine, does anyone know where I can get a copy of the last story in the series, 'Dreams of Long Ago' please?

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[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's online or in ProsLib anywhere, but I have a paper version I could copy and send, if that works for you? Drop me an email (not an lj-message, unless you really really have to *g*)

[fiorenza-a.livejournal.com]

Oh well done, I like a happy ending :0)

[boothros.livejournal.com]

Oh, that would be simply lovely, thankyou! I wonder why she didn't publish the very last episode on-line? Have I got your latest email addy?

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

I thought you did, but if not it's slantedlight at g maildot com. *g*

It's possible that ProsLib has the story, but hasn't archived it yet. Though I see the fourth story was up at Circuit way back in 2003... oh, I wonder if that's why. Cos Justacat took over the Circuit Archive in 2004, I think, so maybe it was in line to be archived there, but got lost in the change-over... hagsrus might be the one to ask if she's around (*shamelessly names so that she's pinged to the conversation*)...

[hagsrus.livejournal.com]

What's the title of the last story?

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

"Dreams of Long Ago"

[hagsrus.livejournal.com]

No, I don't have it, and don't recall that Justacat mentioned it.

It might well have been passed to somebody to transcribe (before my time) and never returned.

Does your copy look like "paper circuit" or from a zine?

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

The copy I've got is one that's been bound (with one of those plastic slides) with the other stories in the series. Interestingly, the other stories look like they were probably from the paper circuit, but Dreams of Long Ago looks like a zine version (it has a Celtic-y border top and bottom, and fancy font for the title). So maybe Dreams of Long Ago never made it to the paper circuit - perhaps Jane stopped sending her stories to the paper circuit at some point? Or someone stopped putting them on the paper circuit? Or that was when she started up her zine business instead?

ETA cos this came out looking odd! Why does it say local in big letters?! ETA2 - Oh okay, they all do... *g*

[hagsrus.livejournal.com]

Zine exclusive is probably the answer, then.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Hiya - I was all ready to copy this for you when I realised I hadn't heard from you again - do you still want this, or did you find it somewhere else?

[boothros.livejournal.com]

Oh Goodness me, yes please!! Sorry, I've still been pratting around trying to find your email address!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

No worries! (My email address is in my second comment from the top, up above... *g*)

[merentha13.livejournal.com]

Just as an FYI -

Fanlore has the story in the Zine "Fantazine #1":
"Dreams of Long Ago" by Jane is Part 5 of the "Dreaming Stone" or Kin/Bran series (Parts 1: And Lovers, Long Ago/also here, though dated May 1986; Part 2: Dreaming Stone; Part 3: Dark Dreaming; Part 4: Dreams of Yet to Be and Part 6: And Future Dreams of Long Ago are in the circuit library.

And Future Dreams by Wally, a spin-off, rather than a sequel"

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's the info I have for palelyloitering.com, originally from the brilliant and missed taverymate (who I suspect was the source of that Fanlore information too). It looks like Jane must have abandoned the series on the paper circuit, whether because it became defunct or because she was getting into zine publishing.

I wonder if that means the last story can't be archived to ProsLib - it seems a shame that there's no access to it except via a relatively rare zine, when the other stories in the series are all available on ProsLib and also the only Circuit Archive...