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'You cannot fix this world alone, selkie.''I know. But, when we die, all that is left are shadows of our lives preserved in the memories of those who remain. I plan on leaving an exceptionally long shadow, filled with ripples of moonlight for those I helped, and darker than the worst of nightmares for those who wronged us.'How far would you go to save your skin? I'm a selkie, trapped above the waves until I can recover my skin. Humans used to call us seal-wives many years ago - before they broke the planet. I thought that less humans, after the warming, would mean less danger. My kind believed our world was finally recovering. We were wrong.Up here, the magic is fading and Old Ones like me are being traded as trophies for rich and powerful humans to display in collections.Without the Old Ones, the magic fades, without magic, the planet dies. Humankind has gone too far and someone has to put a stop to it, I just wasn't expecting it to be me. As the selkie begins her hunt, far to the south on his enormous pleasure ship, Barge, Lord Sal hunts for missing Old Ones with a grand plan to leave his own mark on the world. Icidro and Prince Ulises are searching for them too, and this is a world where money talks louder than morals.

He was not ready to lose her in either world, so he tricked the stars and conspired against the Universe. He loved her in life - he swept her into a portal and loved her in death, and then he sent her back to her world as he continued to linger in his - between life and between death. They told her it was all in her mind. They said that her memories were never real. They locked her away until he found a way back, to her world.Misty-Bleu, "Through all our lifetimes, across so many universes and dimensions, our souls always know each other. You and I, we've loved before, it's just always our bodies that are new. Still, in each form, each age, each universe, and each lifetime, you leave me here without you. I can't do another lifetime without you. I search for you in each existence, when really, my survival has always been in you, and yours in me. Our worlds collide again and again, lifetime after lifetime, body after body. I need to be in a world where you won't leave me again. I've got to be where you are."Misty-Bleu, "The place I go to every time I close my eyes. There where you are. There where I find you again. There where our ancient love comes home to me. There where all other worlds die, and ours lets me live again. With you. There, where we make plans again. There, where you touch my face and hold my hands. There where I can breathe again. There, where you never left, never gone. There where I find you when I no longer want to be awake in my world. The world you sent me back to. The one I've had to live in without you, and hide my tears. The one that crushes my soul and shatters my heart. The world I hate. The one I search for you on empty beaches and crowded streets. The one you've left me in, without you."Alison Meier - Excellent how the writer was able to split dimensions while Misty-Bleu slipped out and back into the universes. It was a twist that caught me by surprise. It was a good, solid read. I thoroughly enjoyed the stories within the story. It was a book I had to tear myself away from and didn't want it to end. Much tears. Definite read.Danelle Davy - Wow, I absolutely enjoyed reading this book. The author took my mind and emotions into a world of abuse, pain, suffering, loss and most of all intense love. Even though all the pain and suffering took a toll on the character's mind and soul, in the end, love prevails and overpower all of these bad experiences in life. I love how the author was able to pen down the emotions of the characters perfectly making it more real. I could not stop reading and had to finish it quick once I started. The author has a talent to express various types of emotions which reflects the reality that a lot of people in real life experience through love, death, life and the power of the mind. I am hooked on her way of writing and I cannot wait to pick up another book.I rate this book

All my life, I've dreamed of the sea.Mermaids, stormy skies, daring adventures, pirates...it was little wonder I sprinted to the docks the moment I left the orphanage. Eager to begin my new life, I searched for a ship that would have me-and found a thief instead. I chased the bastard.Now I'm trapped.I'm told this place is Neverland, but everything I touch is dead or dying; what's left is hellbent on killing each other. Monsters lurk around every corner, and everyone I meet hides a damning secret. I'm thrust in the middle of a deadly feud, and the only one capable of unraveling the curse that plagues us.Neverland is my home now. Until it's done with me?It will never let go.Peter Pan meets Pirates of the Caribbean in A Land of Never After, but reader beware: this children's tale has been reimagined for adult lovers of all things dark and deadly, with an LGBTQ+ positive twist. Content warnings include language, violence, and mentions of gender dysphoria and suicide.

From Jammu and Kashmir in the north to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the south, from Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu in the west to Arunachal Pradesh in the east, and all the other states and union territories of India in between, here are 108 fabulous folk tales, legends, and stories from more than fifty-seven languages and dialects. You will delight in wondrous tales of heroes and heroines, of ordinary men and women, of wicked mothers-in-law and foolish sons-in-law, of love lost and won, of a tree who loved a girl, of seers and wise men, of chudails, werewolves, and wizards, of a potter girl and the divine cow, of demoiselle cranes and humans transforming into elephants, of how the woodpecker got its crest, and much, much more. Startlingly original, brilliant, wise, and often funny, these stories will delight readers of all ages.

This is the third book in Part 3 - Africa, following on from the titles in Parts 1 and 2 covering a host of nations and regions across Europe and North America.

Tales From The World's Firesides is a grand project. I've collected thousands of traditional texts as part of other projects, and while many of the original texts are available through channels like Project Gutenberg, some of the narratives can be hard to read for modern audiences, and so the Fireside project was born. Put simply, I collect, collate and adapt traditional tales from around the world and publish them as a modern archive.This is the third book in Part 3 - Africa, following on from the titles in Parts 1 and 2 covering a host of nations and regions across Europe and North America.Southern African Folklore is firmly rooted in an oral, historical tradition. It is tied to the region's landscape and fauna, with fantastic creatures playing an important role in these stories. Music and song is often used to tell the story and the tales' values are usually firmly African, with community and sharing being key.The stories can, of course, be brutal and often contain death and disaster. In this, too, they reflect a certain African reality, although collectors and regular readers of folklore and fairy tales will recognise that brutality as a common theme in cautionary tales the world over.As always, it is a delight to collect and adapt these stories, to discover new ways of thinking and to immerse yourself in the lore of such a fabulous land.

The body of work in this catalog was produced from 2016 to 2018, and is based on a larger iconographic work that the author began in 2005. The core pieces evoke illuminated manuscripts, created on leather parchment and rice paper, imagining them as lost pages from an ancient codex or mythological treatise. The images present a personal iconography of invented and appropriated symbols, uniquely arranged, combined, transformed, and depicted in cosmo-mythological and archetypal diagrams, as well as in scenes from a mythological pantheon. The imagery also suggests hieroglyphic or linguistic arrangements, a visual syntax using the Codex's symbols and archetypes. The theme points to hermetic, ancient languages, and mystical treatises. The exhibition's catalog explains the pantheon, the meaning of the symbols, and their interconnection.

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