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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: La Sala, Ryan, author.

Title: Reverie / Ryan La Sala.

Description: Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Fire, [2019] | Summary: While recovering from an attack that leaves him without his memory, gay teenager Kane Montgomery stumbles into a world where dreams known as reveries take on a life of their own, and it is up to Kane and a few unlikely allies to stop them before they spillover into the waking world.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019023947 | (hardcover)

Subjects: CYAC: Fantasy. | Dreams--Fiction. | Gays--Fiction. | Connecticut--Fiction.

Classification: LCC PZ7.1.L14 Re 2020 | DDC [Fic]--dc23

Contents

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Title Page

Copyright

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Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Excerpt from Be Dazzled

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About the Author

Back Cover

For my sister, Julia, who saw what the world could be and fought to make it so.

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

• Yoko Ono •

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Smithereens

This is where it happened. This is where they found Kane’s body.

It was on the verge of September, and the Housatonic River was swollen with late summer’s weeping. Kane stood among the bishop’s-weed frothing at the bank, trying to imagine what it’d been like the night of the accident. In his mind, being pulled from the river would have been violent. Moonlight sliced to confetti on the black, broken water as paramedics wrenched him up. But this river, during the day, seemed incapable of violence. It was too slow. Just gold water marbled with pollen, kissing his bare legs, and a fleet of silvery fish slowly wreathing his ankles.

Kane wondered if the fish remembered that night. He had the urge to ask them. He remembered none of the accident himself. All that Kane knew, he’d learned in the five days since waking up in the hospital.

Something struck his head. A pine cone. It bobbed into the water and the silvery fish vanished.

“Stop daydreaming and help me.”