StoryThe Brown Dwarf Compendium was founded on short fiction which dealt in surrealism oriented genres like science fiction, fantasy, and magic realism. Darlene and her daughter Sarah live on a hobby farm near Khartum, Ontario. Khartum is one of Canada's ghost towns and Sarah often sneaks away through the fields of corn to visit. A typically dreary morning for an ill woman becomes a transcendent experience offering hope and foreboding. Aristille is amongst the last of his creed within a lone human survivalist colony beneath the surface of Venus. Burrowing into the bowels of the planet in search for sustenance the unstable element 115 was discovered. It is a catalyst for time flux. On the cusp of humanity's demise, Aristille is driven to wade through madness to find his own serenity. As a baby, Enki is kidnapped from his home and taken to an organic society known as the Calyx Receptory. Citizens have no concept of the outside world and from within every desire is satisfied. Enki's dreams of the outside compel him to escape. An operative posing as a simple Energy Board agent unearths some unusual secrets in the manor atop Iucharba mountain. If you wander long enough, you'll find it: a place where material laws are in constant flux. Paul discovers a house with endlessly changing properties, and finds himself drawn through a journey of perceptual transformation. Bertrand's return journey, from Earth to his home planet of Ecua, has been dreamless up until the very last week of his journey... A day in a life of a child who develops a fear of the dark and a resentment for normality. He lives a life that seems foreign. Imagination calms his frayed nerves and engenders the unknown. "The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases" A great hunter is torn between the powerful desire to deliver herself to freedom once and for all, and her very deep-rooted fear of what that might actually mean. The rainy season is most dangerous but that does not stop divers from seeking fortune beneath the waves of the Ler Sea. Beneath the waves there is much that is vaguely seen on the edge of distant darkeness. Some of these things are ancient creatures and some of them are the imagination. One man’s life is turning upside down and he becomes convinced that the banking system is not looking out for his best interests. He withdraws all of his money but compulsively worries about its safety. A great sickness finds it's way a small mountain village in Jungle. Their Shaman doesn't return from his journey to seek out a cure and so a young man whose wife has been afflicted takes up the task and discovers much more than he could have ever anticipated. Together with the Cold Part One of Two Living in the city we're constantly brushing shoulders with strangers. Some of them we might get along with, but in the city snubbing one another is normal. Wherever people are interacting there is an exchange of energy and there are those who know how to give and take energy at will. The tale of a series of supernatural events within and surrounding the mystical Trypitie Forest. Pandora is chased by vague, nightmarish entities who constantly hint at their malicious intentions. An assassin of The Moot people faces the external challenges of the Pale-skinned and the internal challenges of The Hunger. The Williams family encounters one of the greatest horrors to have ever existed in the Bluebrush Forest in the guise of a man who takes guidance from the 'King of Crows'. Together with the Cold Part Two of Two Living in the city we're constantly brushing shoulders with strangers. Some of them we might get along with, but in the city snubbing one another is normal. Wherever people are interacting there is an exchange of energy and there are those who know how to give and take energy at will. Gently satirical but with radical premise, the story describes the unfolding of Jane and Mary’s psychic reality. A tale of a mysterious remnant of an ancient people on the fringes of the Mandragora continent. The great planes were once part of the lush prairies but now much of it has been subjected to desertification from early settlers turning sod. Whats left is threatened by hydrogenation. As a result the wildlife has mutated larger then is sustainable. Even though the intended mutations are said by social engineers to feed more people, their have been circulatory problems in a neighboring community. Mandragora: Erpland Part One of Two The Mayrif is a subterranean city and has the second largest Fairthell population in Mandragora. A citizen named Drave has just turned twenty one and without an accepted skill set is exiled to the outside- to the Elathan Jungle to fend for himself. He's always been different as he was born with synesthesia whereby sound has colour. He sets out to find his place in the world hoping to learn what is needed to be a valuable citizen. A young man is sent to the industrial ruin known as Glinka with a very unusual and specialized task. Sarah King engages in a series of brutally self-destructive experiments to attempt to contact entities that have occasionally appeared in her life. Mandragora: Ler Sea (Rewritten) The rainy season is most dangerous but that does not stop divers from seeking fortune beneath the waves of the Ler Sea. Beneath the waves there is much that is vaguely seen on the edge of distant darkeness. Some of these things are ancient creatures and some of them are the imagination. A Young women discovers that she must find the seeds of her favorite rare plants so that she may find their true magic. Simon wishes he had a seat to sit on. The room he resides in doesn't provide anything that even partially resembles a seat. Simon wishes he had a chair. There are magnetic anomalies in the Nemon forest that have been resulting in inter-dimensional portals that are being manipulated by a strange race of beings. As a result of there meddling dimensions are colliding. Leiren is assigned to seek out these beings and stop them however there is a lot about them that he discovers he didn’t know and once he does it complicates his mission. A young woman finds a girl in a park with an unusual talent for creating matter out of light. On Ogma Island there is a place that is revered by the locals. For the ones chosen by chance they must leave their homes for many years so that they can study in this place from the very onset of their metamorphosis to become a librarian of repository experiences. Tayls is one of these children and finds himself engaging vicarious feelings that are more intense then even his revered education could ever have prepared him for. Mandragora: Reflections from the Firepool Gavin awakes in a desolate scarified land without remembering anything. There are few choices for him to make and he fears that that which is most familiar is most disturbing. He discovers that he's not alone in the desolate landscape and struggles to make his own choices while trying to recover a semblance of home. The second half of a long story regarding two psychically bound individuals and the constant misfortune this uncanny link produces for them. The first half of a long story regarding two psychically bound individuals and the constant misfortune this uncanny link produces for them. Mandragora: Erpland Part Two of Two The Mayrif is a subterranean city and has the second largest Fairthell population in Mandragora. A citizen named Drave has just turned twenty one and without an accepted skill set is exiled to the outside- to the Elathan Jungle to fend for himself. He's always been different as he was born with synesthesia whereby sound has colour. He sets out to find his place in the world hoping to learn what is needed to be a valuable citizen. |
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