new start to novel

Charles Keatts
6 min readApr 21, 2022

A new beginning to my newest novel, Troubled Sleep:

One

I’ve been having a lot of nightmares recently. Then last night I dreamed about my ex-wife, I was living in an apartment in Kent, and it was like a party, but I was happy and I knew it was a dream and I told a random woman “I know this is a dream!”. It was a nice change of pace.

I can’t say that this story really happened the way that I describe it here. I don’t know much of anything. I don’t think any of it is real. I’m not real, just a memory, a collection of memories, floating in space…

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Charles Keatts

Essays, poetry, and art. Published novelist, memoir in process, new novel. I like being sober, trail running, climbing, and spending time with my daughter.