The Three Feathers - The Magnificent Journey of Joshua Aylong (26 page)
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Authors: Stefan Bolz
New York in August 2012,
Stefan Bolz
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Some of the locations in the story were inspired by the paintings of
The head of the lioness was inspired by a painting by Sheila Wright.
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Fifteen-year-old Aries Egan lives in one of five super high rises in a nameless city. There is no government. There are no schools. People are controlled by a ruthless Corporation. Any deviation from the Moral Code, the code of living set forth by the Corporation, is punished - sometimes with prison, sometimes with torture, sometimes with death.
Aries hacks into the main frame computer, creating a loop with the camera feed to her room and so stealing one hour per night for herself. Sometimes she reads a book. That alone could send her to prison for three months. At other times, she roams the massive building via the air ducts. During one of her nightly excursions, she finds something that has the power to change her life and that of everyone around her. But in order for her to follow it, she has to become an outlaw, a criminal, an enemy of the Corporation.
As the hunt for her unravels, she flees ever deeper into the belly of her building. What awaits her there, she could not possibly have foreseen. And the fate of her people now rests on her ability to survive.
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"I freaking loved it! This has to be a movie. There was far too much detail and visual stunningness (don't know if that's a word but it is now) that just leapt off the pages. This book was a spectacular adventure and an epic love story among human beings. Not the kind of love story between 2 people, but the kind between humanity. It was beautiful, beautiful!" [Ali Hammond]
"I found that once I began reading, I could not put the story down so make sure you plan accordingly!" [Jennifer Husta]
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"The philosophies and creativity this e-book was filled with were absolutely amazing, and the situations were intense. There wasn't a single break for Aries, who was met with adversity at every turn." [Undiscovered Tomes]
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There is a world within our own—beneath, below, not visible to our eyes but never far away. We can neither touch nor feel nor smell it. We do not even think it real. Still, it is there. It is the world of the angels. Their world is our world but void of ugliness and fear and death and pain. Its buildings are pristine, its cities glorious, its lawns are still and deep, and its winged inhabitants the most beautiful creatures you can imagine.
From this world of beauty and peace, two angels—Amber and her daughter Pearl—do what is forbidden and cross into our world, landing in a dark back alley somewhere in a seedy part of Detroit. They should not be here. They should not have come. For once here, they are bound by the same laws we are. And now the unthinkable happens: before they can return home, Pearl is murdered by a street gang. Amber, for the first time experiencing human emotions, is soon consumed by powerful thoughts of revenge. From that moment on, she begins to slip ever deeper into the darkness of her own hatred until almost nothing of her is left.
On the other side of town, John Engels, a research scientist, realizes to his own surprise and terror, that he might be the only one who can possibly stop her before she follows through with her plan of killing all those responsible for her daughter's death. For if he cannot stop her, if she falls, the world—our world—will fall with her.
"A thrilling, visual, rollercoaster ride of revenge." Nick Cole, author of
The Old Man and the Wasteland
"Stefan Bolz has his own brand of positive fiction. You see it seeping through every pore of
The Three Feathers
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The Fourth Sage
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Dark World
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"The Dawning of the True Self" compares the spiritual journey hidden in the fable "The Three Feathers" to our own search for who and what we are in truth. As such it is a guide to our own journey, from the small self—the self we experience now—to our true self—the magnificent self that awaits us at the journey’s end. At the beginning of it all stands one question, asked in many forms, in different ways and in countless languages. It is this question that signifies the beginning of our search. The question is: Who am I? In order to find the answer, we must leave the confines of our small self and go on a journey of discovery, across the treacherous terrain of our unconscious mind and to our destination—the dawning of our true Self within us.
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