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An Understanding
Read more in the world of Good King Lyr! Two stories of love and loss, redemption and humanity, set 21,000 years apart in the Kaireyeh Chronicles universe.
An Understanding Barenin Lyr hasn't been human for millennia. He roams the galaxy atoning for the sins of his synthetic race - the fracturing of time itself. But time and space won't let him go, and an echo of another's pain reaches out to him across the lightyears. On a planet he once knew, governments trade children across walls of time for information. Barenin Lyr was human, once. Can he be human enough again to save the children of a broken world?
The Artist Fades Away Would you travel to another world if it cost you the memory of the one you love? Michael set out with his wife to emigrate to the new world of Hale, but something went wrong in travel, and now she's fading from existence and even from his memories. Can he hold onto her long enough to say goodbye?
An Understanding Barenin Lyr hasn't been human for millennia. He roams the galaxy atoning for the sins of his synthetic race - the fracturing of time itself. But time and space won't let him go, and an echo of another's pain reaches out to him across the lightyears. On a planet he once knew, governments trade children across walls of time for information. Barenin Lyr was human, once. Can he be human enough again to save the children of a broken world?
The Artist Fades Away Would you travel to another world if it cost you the memory of the one you love? Michael set out with his wife to emigrate to the new world of Hale, but something went wrong in travel, and now she's fading from existence and even from his memories. Can he hold onto her long enough to say goodbye?
19 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 26, 2016
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Novae Caelum
45 books289 followersNovae Caelum (he/they/starself) loves royalty, cloak and dagger, and sparkly queer magic, and will unapologetically write things with all three.
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April 1, 2018
This very short tale reads something like 'Semly's Jewels' except from the point of view of the person doing the removing, the one responsible for a person being dislocated and aged by comparison with peers. I hadn't read anything set in this series before and it might read better to someone familiar with the context.
I liked it well enough but didn't think as much of an even shorter tale about a portrait artist which follows.
I downloaded a copy through Instafreebie. This is an unbiased review.
I liked it well enough but didn't think as much of an even shorter tale about a portrait artist which follows.
I downloaded a copy through Instafreebie. This is an unbiased review.
September 21, 2016
This book contains two short stories, which need more explanation thus they leave the reader slightly confused.
January 18, 2018
there was 2 stories from Instafreebie, and the first was great, the second was a little lost to me 3 stars isn't bad.
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