I had to look him in the eye, touched by the very misery of which he so casually spoke "But if your contention except in the search for it - why should any being want to live forever?"
He smiled again, relaxed and entirely radiant as the rain began falling a little faster. "There are other things besides happiness."
"Oh?" I prompted.
"Love, for one," he ventured, a casual offering.
I glanced away. "I went into the city last night," I told him. "And of all the mortals I drank from in an effort to quell this strange thirst, the one thing all of them had in common was their abject hatred of love—"
And in the middle of my sentence, when I was arguing a philosophical point with my vampyre maker, I suddenly knew what he was trying to make me see. What terrified me was that I didn't want to see it.
Love was the only reason any of us had for living, yet it was a reason that had nothing to do with happiness. Love was its own exegesis, the illusion which was its own reflection in an endless hall of mirrors. Reason enough for death, reason enough for immortality.
Our eyes met. Raindrops gathering on his hair caught the light, airbrushing a cool silver halo above his head. For a moment, I couldn't breathe when I remembered what this fallen angel had done to me.
"Love terrifies me," I confessed as if to a holy man.
The dark angel smiled at his own reflection. "Good," he pronounced easily, and I saw just the tips of his dangerous fangs. "Then there's hope for you yet, my friend."
And with that, he took me firmly by the arm and led me in out of the rain.
YEAR OF THE RAM
Della Van Hise
Year of the Ram was described by one reviewer as... "A spacefaring gay romance full of love, angst, and longing."
Only after Star Commander Morgan Diego becomes an exile as a result of a Galaxy Corps political blunder does he begin to realize how much he valued the companionship of his second in command - the mysterious Lucien, an Alfarian who is more elven than human, with peculiar powers & abilities which begin to unfold as he, too, realizes what he has lost.
Separated by circumstance from his former life, Morgan is thrust into a world where he must survive by his wits. When he meets a peculiar little old man calling himself Kim Le, Morgan finds himself in a situation where he is required to master The Art - not only a form of human & extraterrestrial martial arts, but a way of living and being that will alter his life forever.
At the temple, he is introduced to his new teacher, another Alfarian who begins to steal his heart - a heart which is already promised to Lucien. Torn and conflicted, Morgan struggles with the world he left behind and the world he now inhabits.
Beginning to believe he may never again return to his ship and to the friends and loved ones he left behind, he is all the more frustrated and heartbroken when a new Master arrives at the temple: a man to whom Morgan is immediately drawn both mentally and physically, a man who is strikingly familiar... yet utterly alien.
Year of the Ram is a fully-fleshed novel, approximately 97000 words, with a focus on the love story and romance angle. Set against a science fiction milieu, it explores the infinite possibilities of the human and alien heart. Sexual content is explicit, though is not the primary focus of the novel.
For those who like a romance that forces its characters to contemplate the ecstasies AND the agonies of love... you will enjoy Year of the Ram immensely.
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Della Van Hise
A Novel of Love, Honor
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When River Willows is accused of a murder she didn't commit, her life takes a turn toward the sanctuary of a world existing at right-angles to our own. Combining the mysticism of martial arts and the romantic conflict of a young woman torn between two powerful men, COYOTE takes the reader on an epic journey of dangerous secrets, military cover-ups, and the infinite heart of the peaceful warrior.
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"So who's Coyote?" I asked, trying to ignore the effect he was having on me. "You?"
Steale laughed easily, though it did little to hide the torment behind that mask of indifference he wore so well.
"Coyote's a scavenger, Jack of all trades. The Native Americans call him the trickster - the one who brought chaos down on the world." He shrugged as if altogether unconcerned. "Original sin."
"Is that what you are?" I asked, keeping it light despite the growing knot my stomach. "Original sin?"
He kept his profile to me, eyes straight ahead as he drove. "Sure you want to know?"
I couldn't help wondering if I had cornered the coyote, or if the clever trickster had cornered me.
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Mikal Nyght
So... You Want To Live Forever?
The teachings are presented as brief vignettes in no particular order of importance. This is not a book you read from start to finish in a single night. It is a grimoire of self-creation, intended to be contemplated slowly so as to be assimilated wholly. Pick it up and turn to a page at random. Where your eyes come to rest on the page is your lesson for the day. Go no further until you have assimilated the lesson totally.
The teachings are seduction as much as instruction. This is the way of The Dark Evolution.
The Ruby Slippers
The danger of the consensual continuum is that its natural gravity exists at the lowest common denominator of human experience, and because of this it will automatically make you forget those elusive truths you've fought to learn, and before you know it you're lost in petty dramas again, sinking into the mire of old familiar scripts.
The only way to overcome this is to be continually cavorting with worlds and events beyond human experience, journeying into the unknown so that it can become known, expanding knowledge and awareness to become more than you were, bringing back from the Dreaming those secrets which will teach you how to use the ruby slippers to transport yourself over the rainbow to the vampyre wizard's secret lair.
Perception
This is the nature of reality: to be precisely what perception dictates, as solid and whole as your interpretation of it, or as changeable and eternal as you permit it to be.
It wasn't knowledge god tried to keep from Man, you see. It was perception, for perception alone has the power to destroy god and obliterate comfortable consensual realities to create unending immortality.
Take the apple, my embryonic children. Nibble its red red flesh. Open your vampyre eyes so you may finally begin to See.
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