To Dream is to Die – 2019
The Unnamed Medicine Man The spiritual guide The teacher of the Land of the Dead Cursed with the knowledge of the child Cursed with the child's darkness Using his own soul to bargain with Fate Unknowingly causing the end Fate had already decided The Child Dreamer had been sentenced And so had the tribe The... Continue Reading →
The Blacksmith's Wife The woman who loved her husband's iron heart
The Blacksmith The man who took pity Kindness in his iron heart
Chapter Five of The Child Dreamer
The Child Dreamer The child who died and was brought back The child who was both alive and dead The child who could never dream again Cursed with the cycle unended Unable to be reaped Blessed with a half-life Broken yet never healed Angry Torn Shattered Burning all in his wake Damaging the balance Unable... Continue Reading →
The Father The unloved soul Cursed with hate and violence Only to be blessed with a wife A wife with everlasting love A wife cruelly taken away A wife taken by a child Tormented by her death Repeating the torture he once knew Repeating the cycle Ending with the child's death Only to cause his... Continue Reading →
Scarred by life's challenges There are some things he cannot speak aloud Some words that he cannot see His language marred by the Fade Damaged by the chaos The cursed words changed yet unseen Never the same Fate took them away The Child Dreamer
The Child Dreamer: A Dead Dreamer Prequel ᚨ ᚲᚺᚨᛝᚲᛖ Unlike those from the village, the people there were kind. They fed me, gave me clothes, and allowed me to play with their children. They were not afraid of me as the blacksmith's children had been. It was strange. I slept in a different bed each... Continue Reading →
The Child Dreamer: A Dead Dreamer Prequel ᚠᛁᚱᛖᛋᛟᚠᚲᚺᚨᛝᚷᛖ The beasts of the full moon reminded me of the shadowed creature that had escaped the barn the night my father ended his miserable existence. I watched as it escaped into the night before I set the barn ablaze. Remembering the creature and seeing these beasts now,... Continue Reading →
The Child Dreamer is a prequel to the Dead Dreamer series (2019) that contains the journal entries of George Walker (The Child Dreamer from the early 1800s). His is a complex story which is why some of his words are written in runes. It is as though certain words he either doesn't know how to... Continue Reading →