Neil Greene

Making the Unreal Real

Introduction Henry met Eden for coffee to talk about a project he wanted to work on with her. A manuscript was shared in advance. He was trying to do something good but she was not interested. He asked her to write something with him but she said no. So nothing directly came of it. Later Henry would realize Eden was only an imaginary friend, if a friend at all. As far as their relationship would go, she might even have been an enemy. She would go on to hurt him and then disappear, never to be seen again, at least in the real world. Despite knowing it shouldn’t have mattered, Henry still only wanted Eden to like him. It was as if they were linked by some distant past that he couldn’t comprehend. As if only through working together they could undo damage done by their ancestors. Before she disappeared—and then even more so afterward—he would spend sleepless nights trying to understand this.