Taylor’s Fictional Works - Lucid Dreams Oasis

✨ Introduction

Taylor’s fiction explores myth, imagination, and the liminal space between dreams and reality.

Here you’ll find highlights of published stories, upcoming releases, and works in progress — projects that invite you into worlds both familiar and strange.

An open archway glowing with moonlight on one side and neon light on the other, symbolizing the threshold between worlds. — A glowing archway stands at the edge of two realms — moonlit shadows and neon wonder — echoing the themes of Taylor’s fiction.

📚 Published Works

Taylor’s stories appear on Medium and are also collected in the Story Vault, available to community members.

Available Titles:

The Well of Secrets (fiction)
A short story exploring the hidden layers of truth, memory, and imagination. What we keep buried surfaces in unexpected ways, reminding us that the past always lingers just beneath.
A Glimmer of Hope (essay)
A contemplative tale of resilience in uncertain times, where even the smallest spark of possibility can illuminate the darkness and guide us toward transformation.
The Looming Threat of AI in Job Markets: Managing the Transition to a Future with Artificial Intelligence (essay)
A creative essay on the future of work in the age of artificial intelligence. This piece balances speculation and pragmatism, imagining how societies might adapt as technology evolves.
From Science Fiction to Reality: The Metaverse and Its Holographic Future (essay)
A visionary reflection on holograms, immersion, and the way yesterday’s science fiction reshapes today’s reality. Blending speculative thought and lyrical framing, the essay bridges futuristic tech with human connection.
Metaverse and Holographic Technologies (essay)
An inquiry into how emerging virtual and holographic spaces might transform art, storytelling, and community. Both metaphoric and technical, this essay considers the creative horizons of immersive worlds.

👉 Explore the Story Vault
👉 Read on Medium

✨ Now Available: Brigid Blackthorn – The Shadows of Inheritance

At the dawn of the 20th century, orphaned governess Brigid Blackthorn inherits a crumbling Mississippi estate—and a locket steeped in ancestral mystery. Blackthorn Manor breathes with secrets: whispering walls, restless spirits, and a legacy bound in grief and vengeance. As Brigid unravels the locket’s shattered history, she must confront Silas Blackthorn, a cruel forebear whose malice still stains the family name.

The Shadows of Inheritance blends gothic horror with generational reckoning, weaving a tale of haunted bloodlines, spectral justice, and the courage to reclaim one’s story.

🕯 What to Expect:

Gothic atmosphere: haunted estates, crypts, and shadows that whisper.
Legacy & lineage: emotional inheritance vs. material burden.
Mystical artifact: the locket as both prison and key.
Ghosts & memory: ancestors trapped between justice and peace.
Resilience in darkness: Brigid’s fight to rewrite her fate

📖 This novella is the gateway to Taylor J. Fynch’s Gothic Cycle—a standalone entry that sets the stage for a full-length novel exploring divergent arcs and deeper truths.

Note to Readers
This story stands alone, but it’s also a prologue to a larger saga. Future volumes will expand Brigid’s journey, reframe key events, and deepen the mythology. Early readers will carry rare insight into the origins of the Blackthorn legacy.

👉 Available now on Amazon KDP. Step into the shadows—and discover what waits beneath the surface.

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Haunted gothic manor under a full moon, with ivy-covered walls, glowing windows, and a misty path leading to its entrance. — The foreboding silhouette of Blackthorn Manor stands beneath a stormy sky, its ivy‑choked walls and glowing windows hinting at restless secrets within.

Vibrant neon jungle with glowing plants and a river of radiant light leading toward a futuristic city skyline at dusk. — A glowing river winds through a jungle of neon flora, guiding the way to a distant futuristic city — the mysterious heart of the Neon Wilds.

The Neon Wilds (Work in Progress)

Technology becomes myth. Myth becomes a trap.
Oz was never meant to glow like this.

A futuristic reimagining of The Wizard of Oz

When a cataclysmic “hyperstorm” sweeps the Midwest, tech‑savvy teenager Rhea — along with her AI‑drone companion Pix — is hurled into the Neon Wilds, a fractured wilderness where bioluminescent forests, rivers of living light, and predator‑AI roam like beasts of circuitry and code.

Here, survival is never passive. The Iron Wolf, the Razor Hawk, the Viral Serpent, and the Shadow Stag prowl as embodiments of greed, surveillance, misinformation, and humanity’s hubris. At the heart of it all stands the glittering Prism Spire, domain of the enigmatic Luminal Architect — a visionary whose dreams of saving the world gave birth to a new nightmare.

The Neon Wilds is the first step in a trilogy that explores the junction of technology and nature, paranoia and hope, survival and responsibility. It is not a tale of luck but of agency: Rhea must outthink a world that is alive, dangerous, and all too familiar with our own mistakes.

Note: This is a conceptual forerunner to a future full‑length novel. The details and world will expand — and fork — as the larger saga develops.

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Stories in Song

Some of Taylor’s stories are expressed through songs. Lyrics are not published here, but completed sound files can be found on the Portfolio page.

🎧 Listen on Portfolio Page

An open book with glowing streams of light transforming into floating musical notes, symbolizing stories turning into songs. — From the page to the melody: an open book releasing musical notes into the air, echoing Taylor’s stories expressed through song.

A panoramic cityscape blending two worlds: warm-lit modern skyscrapers on the left transition into futuristic neon towers and glowing trees on the right. — A single skyline transforms before the viewer’s eyes — from today’s familiar city lights into tomorrow’s glowing futuristic spires, mirroring the themes of Taylor’s work.

Author’s Note

Taylor’s work explores where technology, myth, and identity intersect. Whether through story or song, each project delves into themes of survival, agency, and human choice. These works invite readers to step into worlds both alien and familiar—and to reflect on their own journeys through shadow and light.

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