This is an excerpt from Winds of Change, the third novel in the Dandelion Trilogy.You can find it here>> It was a time of giddiness and babble, when the world seemed hopeful and lost all at once. Possibility lurked on the edge of each moment. Disaster loomed across every horizon. With humanity at a crossroads, the […]
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The Phoenix Moment – Winds of Change
This is an excerpt from Winds of Change, the third novel in the Dandelion Trilogy.You can find it here>> By morning, the smoke had swallowed the sky. The day dawned in an eerie orange glow. The Council of All Beings disbanded and evacuated. Charlie and Zadie drove north, shoulders twitching and tensing as the fire tripped […]
The Council of All Beings – Winds of Cha
This is an excerpt from Winds of Change, the third novel in the Dandelion Trilogy.You can find it here>> They drove south from Oregon along the winding coastal highway, craning their necks at the explosions of surf and stopping every half hour to admire the wild coast. Craggy mounds of eroding sandstone skulked in the fog. […]
Hurricane Eve – Winds of Change
This is an excerpt from Winds of Change, the third novel in the Dandelion Trilogy.You can find it here>> A high wind smacked the water, kicking up waves that glinted grey as the overcast sky. Barrie eyed the river warily as he slurped his coffee. He set the mug down and tied a second bowline to […]
Turning Up The Heat – Winds of Change
This is an excerpt from Winds of Change, the third novel in the Dandelion Trilogy.You can find it here>> Heat flattened the city. Asphalt gleamed, shiny and malevolent. Concrete endured in washed-out weariness. Anything green wilted and crisped at the edges in the inferno of the record-breaking summer temperatures. Heat waves curled off the concrete, steel, […]
The Democracy Lab – Winds of Change
This is an excerpt from Winds of Change, the third novel in the Dandelion Trilogy. Find it through our Community Publishing Campaign here>> ____________________ The Democracy Lab’s Forum took place in an old chapel which had been stripped of religious iconography. It had been converted into a theater-in-the-round by removing the pews and circling concentric rings […]
The Murmuration – Winds of Change
“Starling Murmuration – Eastbridge” by Airwolfhound is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 The Murmuration – From Winds of Change .This is an excerpt from Winds of Change, the third novel in the Dandelion Trilogy.You can find it here>> _________________ The murmuration swarmed through the streets like a wild dance class released from studio walls. It was a flocking movement, modeled […]
The Apology & Forgiveness Song – An Exce
Author’s Note: This excerpt is an example of the kind of compelling fiction we can write when we integrate the current best practices and experiments in conflict resolution. In the story, the Atta Song (Apology and Forgiveness Song) is part of Harraken culture, a way of admitting wrongs and making them right. This tradition is […]
Throw-the-Bones – An Excerpt from Desert
This is an excerpt from Desert Song, a novel by Rivera Sun. You can get a copy here. Up a long, winding ravine, tucked into a pocket meadow, lived a seer named Throw-the-Bones. Her home – if you could call it that – was a hide-covered lean-to half dug into the earth. A sod roof […]
Ancestor Songs – an Excerpt from The Los
Note: This chapter is excerpted from The Lost Heir: An Unruly Royal, An Urchin Queen, and A Quest For Justice by Rivera Sun. You can purchase the book here. And find the eBook version here. Hours later, exhausted and happy to her bones, Ari Ara slipped through the side gate of the House of Marin with Emir. […]