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2025
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What is Five Points Akropolis?An alternate future? An insecure past? Another present made of dense woodlands and waterways ... or of streets and buildings and crowds? Are its populations living beside one another in a welter of frequencies or wavelengths not generally experienced in Place and Time?A particular place called Five Points Akropolis -- This is what Anno Domine 1769, 1900 A.D., and 2017 CE have in common. But what influence does the dwarf-wanderer Pluto have on i...
2011
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Scrolling down this page will bring you to links for sampling various file-types of the novel. God's Wilderness comprises the last two books of TheGod's Cycle.—Mystery Gottheim— begins God's Wilderness, fourth book of The God's Cycle, in which the Gothic New England landscape comes alive in its original hold upon the yankee imagination. Whether it's the man-dog apparition, a visitation of mythic Forest Folk, or the strange case of loose bones in a deserted graveyard, the woo...
2011
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Scrolling down this page will bring you to links for sampling various file-types of the novel. God's House is a novel in three parts. In the first part, —Return to God's House—like her namesake in Pilgrim's Progress, Chrischana Twitchell is fleeing a destructive life in a place she thinks of as the City of Destruction. With her three sons she returns to Gottheim, Maine, and an uncertain welcome in the Meguntic Mountains she loves. Called Gott'im by its inhabitants, this rural village and s...
2023
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Each summer weekend can be like a holiday here in Maine. Once, to the Vikings, it was rugged Vineland; today Maine is Vacationland. After a hard, dirty winter, mild air and watery sunlit places are calling: an abundance of evocative coastal places within a couple minutes' or couple of hours' drive. The author experienced one beach not typical of Maine. It was different in a lively way. She and her spouse, Allen, drove to Auburn for groceries and suddenly decided--over lunch in the Nickel D...
2016
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The boys and girls of the FivePoints 2017 neighborhood gang are transformed into dark matter, slipping into an alternate universe. Adventures ensue, including ghostly encounters with kids of the alternate SiXPointz neighborhood. The 2017 gang help to uncover secrets of crime and science in the city of HiTopOlis. They also wonder if they will remember their adventures--if only they can figure out how to return to their their home universe and bodies.SiXPointz HiTopOLis is a sequel t...
2011
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See links for sampling various file-types of the novel. Gott'im's Monster is coming-of-age speculative fiction for teenagers with heads. A New England Gothic recasting of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Gott'im's Monster is part of The God's Cycle and is set in the mountains of Western Maine, 1808 and the 1980s where townsfolk, acting as unofficial chorus, comment. Its fantastic elements sparse in beginning, the Cycle moves through its story in time and place with increasing mythic emphasis.
Balder's Wilderness
THE GOD'S CYCLE, #5
- Book 5 -
- THE GOD'S CYCLE
2011
EN
Scrolling down this page will bring you to links for sampling various file-types of the novel. This is the fifth book and climax of THE GOD'S CYCLE. Balder's Wilderness is a dark fantasia of the afterlife. Balder Simon, the Gott'imite hero and Vietnam veteran, searches for his lost teenage son, Daniel, who is suffering on a wooded mountainside in Western Maine. There Balder meets up with a stranger, claiming to be a local and offering to guide him. Perplexed yet distrait, Balder agrees, bu...
Maine Metaphor: The Green and Blue House
The Green and Blue House
2014
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How to live in rural Maine? How--in the 1980s, when descendants of Maine's settlers wonder about our coming out of the Rust Belt in search of work, in search of a life? They were not bitter about our coming here, where jobs were already scarce--they were incredulous. Why did we come? Sometimes I answered, "God." God brought us, the formerly middle-class inept, to live among these most hardy and canny of make-do people. God brought us to experience life in Maine, where my spouse sometimes w...
Visiting the Eastern Uplands
Maine Metaphor
2016
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What is it about that word? Aroostook. "The County," they call it in Maine. She sat in the Ohio kitchen with books spread out, having just read a word. She said the word aloud. Someone little called. A door slammed. She stood automatically, walked a step, reached up and got out peanut butter. There was cold milk in the refrigerator, and bread speckled with cracked wheat on the counter. The word Aroostook was thickening against the roof of her mouth. It's been years, but that's how she reme...
Maine Metaphor: Experience in the Western Mountains
Experience in the Western Mountains
2015
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S. Dorman began Maine Metaphor with The Green and Blue House. She continued her explorations in the Western Mountains of Maine, studying Maine's characteristic ways and natural realm, possessing the experience, studies, and journaling of rural life and creation. And she wanted to learn about the character of the people who sometimes must live a hardscrabble life. Her quest began thirty some years ago merely in living the life on moving to Maine with her family. This state of New England, o...
Mystery Gottheim
THE GOD'S CYCLE, #4
- Book 4 -
- THE GOD'S CYCLE
2011
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Scrolling down this page, in Smashwords, will bring you to links for sampling various file-types of Mystery Gottheim. The God's Cycle is five books, which can also be purchased in two parts. In chronological order:GOD'S HOUSE.Return to God's House.Within Without (a.k.a. Within Without God's House).In Winter (a.k.a. God's House in Winter).GOD'S WILDERNESS.4. Mystery Gottheim.5. Balder's Wilderness.Plus Gott'im's ...