Fear of Light (unproduced short story)

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Fear of Light was an unproduced Lethbridge-Stewart short story by Jim Mortimore.

Andy Frankham-Allen commissioned Mortimer to write a 2,000 word short story to be published online in January 2015 as an introduction to the Lethbridge-Stewart series. On 31 December 2014, Fear of Light was announced by Candy Jar Books.

The first draft came in at 10,000 words and Candy Jar Books agreed to print it as a novella with an abridged version to be released online. The final draft of the story came at 7,200 words. It was cancelled for Mortimore's "inflexibility" in refusing to rewrite part of the story to adhere to the house style.

"Since the scene had been pitched and aproved [sic] as a somewhat obscure "hallucinogenic experience of many hundreds of dying memories" which allued [sic] to series continuity then in development, I didn't see how this was possible. I was also not prepared to change my writing style in this case, though I was happy to make any other changes and said so on three occasions."

- Jim Mortimer

Mortimore released a PDF of the story and email exchanges with Andy Frankham-Allen. He also released character bios for Anne Travers and Hobson written for his novel proposal that was accepted but was also cancelled.

Summary
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Characters

 * Colonel Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
 * Colonel William Arthur Pemberton
 * Anne Travers
 * Private Gwynfor Evans
 * Hobson
 * Lennie
 * Samuels