Alyssa Meets the Storyteller (Rebecca Too)

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12 November 2025: Huntingburg, Dubois County, Indiana.

In the opening chapter of Rebecca Too, Alyssa Caine finds herself trudging through the woods dressed in a fairy princess outfit. She comes into a clearing and encounters a mysterious man who identifies himself as The Storyteller and knows many intimate details of Alyssa’s background. After sending her on a brief excursion to reveal how she got there, he gives her three tasks to help her find her way back to her normal life, then sends her off with a kiss.

Her tasks:

  • Protect the boy
  • Reconcile with the fair maiden
  • Confront the dragon

What will happen when the daughter who’s lost her father meets the father who’s lost his daughter?

Published by G. M. Lupo

​G. M. Lupo (ISNI: 0000 0005 0315 9196) is a native of Atlanta, Georgia where he has always had a dysfunctional relationship with his hometown. His most recent published work is the story collection Reconstruction (2020), part of his series of Atlanta Stories, which includes Fables of the New South (2017). Along with his novel, Rebecca, Too (2018), and his full-length play Another Mother, these constitute his Expanded Universe of Fictional Atlanta. He has also released a collection of essays, poetry, and stories entitled Words Words Words (2020). He was the winner of the 2017 Essential Theatre Play Writing Award for Another Mother which had its world premiere in his home neighborhood of West End in August 2017, in the building that once housed the library where he learned to read as a child.

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