20220629 - Weight of Gravity: "Together in Forever, Part II"

 

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Reminded of you, / upon every ship and moon. / Guilty empathy.

#HAIKUPRAJNA - Weight of Gravity

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Together in Forever Part II available now: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B5D6DBF8

Blurb:

"... some days the guilt eats me alive.”

The Pirate often found herself in a stand-off.

On every ship and moon, she confided her guilt with those who she was pillaging, all while keeping a record of her destruction. The Pirate lured her targets into empathy with the paradox of her reinforcing the compulsion loop by sating the guilt of destruction with the thrills of destroying.

She had recognized that, by destroying nine hundred and ninety nine holograms, she had grown to enjoy the act--and had recognized her reliance.

Though, some were wiser than others and failed to fall for the Pirate’s tricks.

Part Two of Together in Forever is available to read on Amazon Kindle! Get your copy from your local Amazon store and read on any device at https://read.amazon.com or on your Kindle device/app!

This is a story that I wrote for April, for our ninth anniversary, and it is out in time for her birthday. 

You can read about Part One here: https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/2022/06/20220607-orbital-rotation-together-in.html

Thank you for reading, everyone.

Allen W. McLean

PS. July is the first anniversary of "Escape Perennial City" so come snag the ebook version for $0.99 if you have yet to do so until July 22nd 2022! https://www.amazon.com/Escape-Perennial-City-Allen-McLean-ebook/dp/B09944K8CS/

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If anyone reading this needs followers to stay in the Medium Partner Program, I am asking you to please follow me (and sign up for emails!) and I'll follow you back! Thanks to you guys, I've reached 100 followers! “Hector Blake” is free to read online alongside book reviews and articles: https://haikuprajna.medium.com 

April's latest psychedelic music, videos, art and poetry available on all streaming platforms: Electric Armchair - The Grunge https://album.link/y/OLAK5uy_m0ZLtscQfa1yhBXtZ3nR96itmzV2JCE04

"Fishing for Caribou" eBook, paperback and hardcover are available through Amazon Kindle apps and devices, and with Kindle Unlimited; previews and more: https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/p/spear-thrower.html

Read on any device at https://read.amazon.com or on your Kindle device/app!

20220622 - Local Authors Showcase photos

 

April and I had a great day on Saturday with family talking to fellow Local Authors and other vendors at the Brampton Farmers' Market for the Brampton Library Local Authors Showcase! Come check out my bio and the other authors in the Showcase here: https://www.bramptonlibrary.ca/index.php/local/local-authors-showcase

Our latest announcement, and original LAS post: https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/2022/06/20220607-orbital-rotation-together-in.html

May update this in the future if I get any more photos from the event.

Thank you for reading,

Allen W. McLean

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Every week, you can collect an ebook on Free Fridays! All one needs is an Amazon account! Kindle ebooks can be read on any device through one's web browser at https://read.amazon.com - Selection rotates every few weeks; collect them all! https://www.amazon.com/Allen-W-McLean/e/B0867C5D24

If anyone reading this needs followers to stay in the Medium Partner Program, I am asking you to please follow me (and sign up for emails!) and I'll follow you back! Thanks to you guys, I've reached 100 followers! “Hector Blake” is free to read online alongside book reviews and articles: https://haikuprajna.medium.com 

April's latest psychedelic music, videos, art and poetry available on all streaming platforms: Electric Armchair - Feast of Fools https://album.link/y/OLAK5uy_mwn2Kg_wXCjcg4TWf12bBrG0m_unVlZUM

"Fishing for Caribou" eBook, paperback and hardcover are available through Amazon Kindle apps and devices, and with Kindle Unlimited; previews and more: https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/p/spear-thrower.html

Part One of #TogetherinForever is available to read on Amazon Kindle! https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0B4DMNTC5

Get your copy and read on any device at https://read.amazon.com or on your Kindle device/app!

Updated 220617: 20220607 - Orbital Rotation: "Together in Forever, Part I" and Brampton Library's Local Authors Showcase

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Star's restless burning\ pull the bodies close, around.\ Gravity of love.

#HAIKUPRAJNA - Orbital Rotation

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Updated 220617: 

Together in Forever Part I available now: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0B4DMNTC5

Blurb:

Star's restless burning \ pull the bodies close, around. \ Gravity of love.
- Orbital Rotation

A holographic pirate fled from a hangar underneath the surface of Titan.
She stole the nine hundred and ninety seventh crystal out of the thousand she was hunting in a bargain with the world-mind of Zeus, the impossible quasi-star that the planets and moons orbited. The Pirate jettisoned the hologram, in the hope of being reunited with her Lover, while plotting the remaining three in a final night of destruction. She knew the lineup of things that she regretted was reaching its maximum. The surmounting guilt was only sated by the fleeting thrills.

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Part One of Together in Forever is available to read on Amazon Kindle! Get your copy from your local Amazon store and read on any device at https://read.amazon.com or on your Kindle device/app!

This is a story that I wrote for April, for our ninth anniversary, and it is out in time for her birthday. Thank you for reading, everyone; it means everything to me. 

Also, if you are in the Brampton Ontario area on Saturday June 18th 2022, then please come say hi to April and me downtown by Gage Park at the Farmers' Market during the Brampton Library's Local Authors Showcase! 

Again, thank you for reading.

Allen W. McLean

Updated: April and I had a great day talking to fellow Local Authors and other vendors at the Brampton Framers' Market for the Brampton Library Local Authors Showcase! Come check out my bio and the other authors in the Showcase here: https://www.bramptonlibrary.ca/index.php/local/local-authors-showcase

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As promised, the short story “Together in Forever” will be released this month! All three parts will be available on Amazon Kindle as separate digital ebooks. A physical paperback book will collect the entire story following their individual releases. The following is the blurb for “Together in Forever - Part I”; 

“A holographic pirate fled from a hangar underneath the surface of Titan. She stole the nine hundred and ninety seventh crystal out of the thousand she was hunting in a bargain with the world-mind of Zeus, the impossible quasi-star that the planets and moons orbited. The Pirate jettisoned the hologram, in the hope of being reunited with her Lover, while plotting the remaining three in a final night of destruction. She knew the lineup of things that she regretted was reaching its maximum; the surmounting guilt was only sated by the fleeting thrills.”

"Together in Forever" title logo.

“Together in Forever - Part I” will release before June 18th 2022.

Following the leaked news in the Project Roadmap, I am excited to confirm the participation of “Fishing for Caribou” and “Escape Perennial City” in the Brampton Library’s Local Author Showcase! An event is taking place at Gage Park during one of the Farmers’ Market weekends. For a year following the Showcase, the library will be circulating books written by people in the community. April and I plan to hand out flyers, while “Fishing for Caribou” and “Escape Perennial City” join the library’s in-branch and digital catalogs. Come join us on Saturday June 18th 2022 at the Brampton Farmers’ Market from 7:30am-1:00pm; check the hosts’ websites for more details.

The two events, "Together in Forever" and the Local Author Showcase, are scheduled around the same time, so I thought I would share a unified post with you all to tease what’s happening. 

June is also the third anniversary of the original “SM-SARA” release on Amazon! To coincide with the events above, “SM-SARA, Poetry and Other Stories” will be on sale for a dollar on the digital Kindle ebook store from June 17th until June 24th 2022; 

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08XYK5DCD

Feeling on the fence about these stories? Readers are welcome to a free Kindle ebook every week on Free Fridays. All one needs is an Amazon account! Kindle ebooks can be read on any device through your web browser at https://read.amazon.com 

Thank you for reading,

Allen W. McLean

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Need more Bite-sized Insights to relieve your stress and suffering? 

These poems will be collected in a future edition of the HaikuPrajna Collection. Stay tuned to HaikuPrajna and Electric Armchair for book previews, mindful meditation haiku \ scifaiku poetry from my metaphysical and magical realism stories (like the sci-fi superhero novel "Escape Perennial City", available on Kindle Unlimited) and more Alchemic Wisdom via our emailing list and social media over here: https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/p/follow-on-social-media.html - https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/19557396.Allen_W_McLean

Every week, you can collect an ebook on Free Fridays! All one needs is an Amazon account! Kindle ebooks can be read on any device through one's web browser at https://read.amazon.com - Selection rotates every few weeks; collect them all! https://www.amazon.com/Allen-W-McLean/e/B0867C5D24

If anyone reading this needs followers to stay in the Medium Partner Program, I am asking you to please follow me (and sign up for emails!) and I'll follow you back! Thanks to you guys, I've reached 100 followers! “Hector Blake” is free to read online alongside book reviews and articles: https://haikuprajna.medium.com 

April's latest psychedelic music, videos, art and poetry available on all streaming platforms: Electric Armchair - Feast of Fools https://album.link/y/OLAK5uy_mwn2Kg_wXCjcg4TWf12bBrG0m_unVlZUM

"Fishing for Caribou" eBook, paperback and hardcover are available through Amazon Kindle apps and devices, and with Kindle Unlimited; previews and more: https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/p/spear-thrower.html

20220614 - Bloodborne Comic Book Review Analysis and Summary

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Ending of the hunt, \ madness obtained from paleblood, \ insights from gods' dreams.

#HAIKUPRAJNA -  Bloodborne Comic Book Summary and Review 

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At the time of writing, there are four “Bloodborne” volumes written by Ales Kot, with more written by Cullen Bunn coming in 2022. These limited series are for fans of Bloodborne’s lore and premise. What I found the most interesting was how insight into From Software’s worldbuilding provides a better experience for the reader while those ignorant of this lore might be irritated by the writing style, which I enjoyed because the opposite (madness-causing insight versus the ignorance of an unending dream) is a thematic component of the story in the video game. “Paleblood” serves as Bloodborne’s macguffin, or the idea of a goal.

“There must be more than the hunt.”

Each story follows a different character living in the world of Yarhman, brought to life by the art team’s amazing work across the whole series; “The Death of Sleep” was about a Paleblood child with a hunter who knew Durja and the Powder Kegs; “The Healing Thirst” displayed a member of the Healing Church being science bros with a love-mad scientist; “A Song of Crows” told the story of Eileen the crow; and “The Veil, Torn Asunder” dealt with a soldier suffering from war PTSD, showing that the madness of insight was a universal affliction in the world of Yarhman.

“When they say healing… they mean burning… us alive.”

An important aspect of the disease inflicting the city is how the beasts were all once human, where characters grow to realize they may be “undeserving of the hunt”. The unafflicted believed that people were transforming into beasts, but the protagonists’ individual descents into madness reveal to them (and us readers) that the insight was turning them into godlike beings, which enforces one of my favorite literary themes of death being a good--an idea that drove mad the living Yarhmanites who clung to the desirables of life. Perhaps the best part of these Bloodborne side stories is how this information is revealed to almost everyone in Yarhman, but they are all unable to convey this to each other until after they transform into monsters. For these characters, going mad was equivalent to obtaining insight about the hunt and the Paleblood, as one began to see monstrous gods fighting one another throughout Yarhman. In true fashion, the more insight one acquired, the more monsters one saw.

“... but nobody taught me how to grieve without killing myself...”

The four comic book stories set within Bloodborne’s world are all about the personal struggles of individuals living in Yarhman, their own issues and trauma, and how they manage to cope until the end of the hunters’ dream.

Thank you for reading,

Allen W. McLean

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Have been looking for other free kindle books to read, ones that are only free for a day or so, so if you have an ebook on Kindle feel free to share them and I'll download!

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Electric Armchair - Living Ghosts (FULL ALBUM): distrokid.com/hyperfollow/electricarmchair/living-ghosts

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These poems will be collected in future editions of the HaikuPrajna Collection.

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20220607 - Orbital Rotation: "Together in Forever, Part I" and Brampton Library's Local Authors Showcase

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Need more Bite-sized Insights to relieve your stress and suffering? 

These poems will be collected in a future edition of the HaikuPrajna Collection. Stay tuned to HaikuPrajna and Electric Armchair for book previews, mindful meditation haiku \ scifaiku poetry from my metaphysical and magical realism stories (like the sci-fi superhero novel "Escape Perennial City", available on Kindle Unlimited) and more Alchemic Wisdom via our emailing list and social media over here: 

https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/p/follow-on-social-media.html - https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/19557396.Allen_W_McLean

If anyone reading this needs followers to stay in the Medium Partner Program, I am asking you to please follow me (and sign up for emails!) and I'll follow you back! Thanks to you guys, I've reached 100 followers! “Hector Blake” is free to read online alongside book reviews and articles: 

https://haikuprajna.medium.com 

Every week, you can collect an ebook on Free Fridays! All one needs is an Amazon account! Kindle ebooks can be read on any device through one's web browser at https://read.amazon.com - Selection rotates every few weeks; collect them all! 

https://www.amazon.com/Allen-W-McLean/e/B0867C5D24

April's latest psychedelic music, videos, art and poetry available on all streaming platforms: Electric Armchair - Feast of Fools 

https://album.link/y/OLAK5uy_mwn2Kg_wXCjcg4TWf12bBrG0m_unVlZUM

"Fishing for Caribou" eBook, paperback and hardcover are available through Amazon Kindle apps and devices, and with Kindle Unlimited; previews and more: 

https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/p/spear-thrower.html