The books were the first thing that stopped when people quit dreaming. Movie producers held on for a year or two, remaking old films and screenwriting classic novels. Music stuck around a bit longer. Certain chords are always pleasing to the ear, even when the songwriters run out of lyrics. But the books, they stopped almost instantly. Without dreams, it was as if every writer in the world suddenly caught a viral and incurable case of writers block. Alexia, unlike most teenagers her age, had d. . .
