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Gideon lowers his eye to the telescope lens, turns a dial, sees, collapses. Awakes concussed and rushes to the city square to announce his discovery: massive structures on another planet. Impossible without intelligence. He is burned at the stake for heresy.

Will Lark is losing his mind. He’s obsessed with a door on a roof of the apartment building next to his in San Francisco, thinks he’s being followed, thinks the moon is swollen and likely to drop out of the sky. His dreams have been menacing and arguably prophetic. When his stalker confronts him and tells him to go to the door, he’s thrown into a mystery that crosses worlds and truly threatens his sanity.

Lucid is about light and dark and the connection between all things. It’s about the pain that comes with severing that connection. It’s about consciousness and time and how they are fluid. It’s a love story and a war story. It’s a harrowing, physical, psycho-spiritual, interplanetary drama.

C.G.'s short story "Tooths" was published in the book Mug of Woe. In 2020, he published a book of poems, entitled Us. In 2023, he published a collection of two poems and two historical fiction short stories, entitled The Peace Quaternity, which won a Literary Titan gold award. In 2025, he published an illustrated children's book, entitled Cloud Jumping.C.G. lives in Colorado Springs with his wife, two sons, two dogs, and cat. He works in finance and dreams of writing all day. He graduated from Harvard with a degree in psychology and took graduate level psychology courses at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. He has read a number of layperson books on quantum physics. His studies in psychology and quantum physics inform his world building.