Pajoquota
a town on the border between Cetronia and the Dodingdaten
Parnasus
a Thirdling in service
pashing
a hug and a kiss
perpadranum
a basket
pertupa stew
a pottage of ground lake crabs
phitron
building material
piece of piss
easy task
pikers
malingerers
pilocarpinus
antidote for sqwallen overdose
pimpsqua
a type of chair
Plageris
an island in the Bottleblue Sea
plonk
cheap wine (brantsgi)
pogo-pogo
a pig
pokiepen
a paddy wagon
Ponsetossit
Garan's ship
Pontifrax
Realm of Ritual
porcorporian
sand crustacean
porgeedasqui
deadly scarlet tanagers
Porias
the old phitron prison
Posan
Consort, Chang Wen
praeters
noble Yunocker class
Primordial Centrum
the great unknown
protastitorium
potatoes
Protractus
Realm of Science
prysyst
a poppy like seed
pukas midaskoos
a root of the midas herb
Pulveris stream
the legendary last river for Thirdlings
pulverkempin
healing herb
pupernisgi
a variety of hanging blossom akin to fuchsia
pykyn
a Gurt house
quillerfoil
barley
reaptide
a time of disposal of the dead or dying
regulati
the warrior Yunocker class
Ricktus Morphinus
Augustii spinctus of the Ryyve Aniniya
ridgy-didge
genuine
Ringus Mordancus
an Ayelli Month – April
rip-snorter
inventor (engineer)
road train
truck rig
Roses of Scaladar
flower of the Ayelli Hill
Rypchypy
a Ryyvyty of the Ryyve Aniniya
ryyve
a Gurt guild
Ryyve Aniniya
the Power guild
Ryyve Bomertoss
the Baker's guild
Ryyve Gudi
the Weaver’s guild
Ryyve Pykyn
the Building guild
Ryyve Sulasgi
the Pottery guild
Ryyvyty
a Gurt selling agent
Sakwoladi
the Danuwa in Gurt
scratchy
scratch-off lottery ticket
Scullery Dorgan
the kitchen zone
Seecoy
an improved Cabriolin
seegoniga
the blue holly clan
selu
corn
selu gadu
corn bread
Seppo
an American
Sheepshagger
a New Zealander
shitter case
broken
shlombrera
umbrella
shonky
in disrepair
siti
the whisperer’s place
Sittiquo
a sacred tree
sketchable
blueprints
snalligrogs
snails
Soffira
Scepta of Montjoy
Solus
larger of two suns of Farn
soogasdi
smoke
Spasatorium
The promised Savior
speckies
specifications
sqwallen
drugged porridge
sqwallen yehu
a drug den
stewganasti
muffin
Sulasgi
pots
sustiya
the old shelter
suweechi
omelet
Swede
a rutabaga
Taleenay
a provost’s second
Ta-li Yu-do-we
He who has two marks
Tappiolus
Consort, Giovanni Muti
Tarhippus
General and city chief of Montjoy
Tassie
Tasmanian
terrapinsgi
tortoise
Terrastrium
Realm of Metallurgy
terrerbyrd
a pterodactyl
threadnickery
silkworm
Tippagore
a desert denizen
tludachi
tiger
tlugu
the tree clan
Toe-hee-ju
I am fine — how are you
Tomatly
assistant to the Ferryman
Toqua
a Cetrone enclave
torpeda
damn it to hell
Treaty of Parazell
Restrictive laws governing entrance into the Kalugu
Trelaw
ancient textile center
Tricentee
a Cetrone enclave
Tucharechee
tlugu clan head
Usquanigo
the Mystery Valley
Usti
baby
vargos
water pots
Villamorticus
Warder of the gate at the Kalugu
Volcanium
Realm of Fire
vyrjyt
an assigned workplace
waddly wazzoo
a rope lamp
wadi-wadi
hand grenades
Watoge
a Cetrone enclave
Whacker
Western Australian
wisgi
whiskey
Wudayleegu
the Zecronisian ward
Xyftys
a Gurt tailor
yahuli
a horn
yarrow tarrow
a sweet herb used in tea
yedalas
currency (money)
Yeholo
the three moons of Farn
yehu
house
yichiyusti
green sky conditions
Yigoya
the showroom
Yinaga
The Forling desert
yiyutli
measurement — 1.3 miles
Yodanado
the whisperers
Yudolayda Asdodi
the secret door into the Kalugu
Yu-do-we
a tattoo
Yuganawu
The Yunocker ward central Montjoy
yunogolada
rainbow
Yustichisqua
Harris’ Trone
yustunalla
a metal used in Cabriolins
Yutumi Dikano Geesti
harpsichord
yuyenihi
barbed wire
yuyona
a drum
yuyoyi
bad
Yuyuli
trail of tears (weeping road)
Yuyutlu
the Gurt ward and marketplace
Zacker
Realm of Light
Zin
Realm of Darkness
Zinbear
a mythic 12 headed monster
Zocor council
the Zecronisian high command
Zocorpykyn
the Wudayleegu customs house
zugginak
an attack dog
zulus
flying sandals
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Edward C. Patterson has been writing novels, short fiction, poetry and drama his entire life, always seeking the emotional core of any story he tells. With his eighth novel, The Jade Owl, he combines an imaginative touch with his life long devotion to China and its history. He has earned an MA in Chinese History from Brooklyn College with further postgraduate work at Columbia University. A native of Brooklyn, NY, he has spent four decades as a soldier in the corporate world gaining insight into the human condition. He won the 2000 New Jersey Minority Achievement Award for his work in corporate diversity. Blending world travel experiences with a passion for story telling, his adventures continue as he works to permeate his reader’s souls from an indelible wellspring.
His novel No Irish Need Apply was named Book of the Month for June 2009 by Booz Allen Hamilton’s Diversity Reading Organization. His Novel The Jade Owl was a finalist for The 2009 Rainbow Awards.
Published Novels by Edward C. Patterson include No Irish Need Apply, Bobby’s Trace, Cutting the Cheese, Surviving an American Gulag, Turning Idolater, Look Away Silence, Oh, Dainty Triolet, The Road to Grafenwöhr, The Jade Owl (Jade Owl Legacy Series Book I), The Third Peregrination (Jade Owl Legacy Series Book II), The Dragon’s Pool (Jade Owl Legacy Series Book III), The People’s Treasure (Jade Owl Legacy Series Book IV), In the Shadow of Her Hem (Jade Owl Legacy Series Book V), the Southern Swallow Series (Book I – The Academician, Book II – The Nan Tu, Book III – Swan Cloud), and The Farn Trilogy (Book I – Belmundus).
Coming soon: The Southern Swallow Series (Book IV – The House of Green Waters; Book V — Vagrants Hollow), The Farn Trilogy (Book II – Boots of Montjoy and Book III – The Adumbration of Zin), and Green Folly.
Look also for Dearest Flower of My Heart — Mail Call from Two Generations, Plum Flower Journey and Nicholas Firestone – China Hand Series.
Poetry books available are The Closet Clandestine: a queer steps out and Come, Wewoka & Diary of Medicine Flower. Coming soon: Pacific Crimson — Forget Me Not
Also – Non-fiction: Are You Still Submitting Your Work to a Traditional Publisher? and A Reader’s Guide to Author’s Jargon and Other Ravings from the Blogosphere.
Dancaster Creative www.dancaster.com
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Table of Contents
Part I The Audition
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Part II Exploring the Part
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Part III Takes and Retakes
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Part IV Cut, and Check the Gate
Chapter One
Chapter Two
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