Just imagine: breathing life into the story that’s been bouncing around inside your cranium for what feels like forever, smashing it out on your laptop and acing your first draft, and then being offered a lucrative deal with a big-time publisher – book tours, signings with adoring fans, and interviews! The success. The validation. And now wake up – because that’s not how any of that happens.
Once you have taken care of your basic survival needs: food, water, shelter, and tribe, your curiosity is finally allowed to flourish! Curiosity is what Miezejeski suggests drives all intelligent life as he describes in his latest hardcore sci-fi novel Brief First Encounter.
When you search for information about astral planes, it’s often described in romantic tones related to an interconnected collection of celestial spheres populated and traveled by angels and spirits—either on their way to being born or after their deaths. But what if there was a more sinister side to these astral planes?
Horro Literature is one of the most difficult genres of the writing to accomplish effectively, but paolo Agaraff excutes it seamlessly in his revamped english translation of the Frog of Hoh Samui.
The slogan “behind every great man, there’s a greater woman” was perpetuated throughout the feminist movement of the 60’s and 70’s. The stories of Radha and Dara, set out in Hidden Women: Dara’s Tree and Cosmic and Eternal Love perpetuates this notion that great men of traditional Hindu and Buddhist stories owe their strength, success, and religious enlightenment to great women, who were the unquestionable embodiments of virtues such as devotion, sacrifice, patience, emotional endurance, and faith.
Biblical stories tell us that there was once a war in Heaven. A great ideological battle turned physical and led to Lucifer and a third of the angels in heaven being cast out. Lucifer and his angels, with their insurmountable pride, were purged from Heaven and banished to a new plane of existence
Mythology and the idea of higher beings have fascinated humans for as long as there have been stars in the sky. We have seen gods everywhere we look – in the earth, in our relationships with one another, and in the parts of life that are just too complicated to contemplate. There is a belief that magic is simply science we are yet to understand, and so we assign divinity to it, personify it, and call it a god.
