Captain Sophia Rae discovers her ancient history and her future with the aid of a cheeky AI.
Tribal-Prologue — Notes From Afar
Tribal-Prologue — Notes From Afar
Author: Hyperion
“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”
― John Keats
The Sad Cafe VII — Notes From Afar
Don’t go, I plead wordlessly. But I can taste the good-bye on his lips Marie Lu, Prodigy The Sad Café VII A love story by Holly Hunter and Hyperion Sturm Common Ground By Holly Hunter The heart can fall like a suicide spiral down like the shade of midnight deserts cold as petals on […]
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The Sad Cafe VI — Notes From Afar
David and Renate are Reunited in Saint-Tropez. Love blooms anew but the call of destiny is a discordant note.
The Sad Cafe VI — Notes From Afar
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The Sad Cafe V — Notes From Afar
There is nothing in the back of this cafe. It sits right on the margin between the edge of the world and infinite possibilities. Gloria Naylor, Bailey’s Café The Sad Cafe V A Love Story by Holly Hunter and Hyperion Sturm Incantations By Holly Hunter When all that I want is so far away and […]
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The Sad Cafe IV — Notes From Afar
The very essence of romance is uncertainty. Oscar Wilde The sad cafe iv A Love Story by Holly Hunter and Hyperion Sturm She Doesn’t Speak French By Holly Hunter On sleepless nights I stroll the left bank in black sequined heels My eyelids are heavy with smoky glitter. Among the art I find you your […]
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Sad Cafe III — Notes From Afar
Sad Cafe II — Notes From Afar
The story of the Sad Cafe continues as the two lovers revisit old memories.
Sad Cafe II — Notes From Afar
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The Sad Cafe — Notes From Afar
By chance to former lovers meet. Can they rekindle their flame?
The Sad Cafe — Notes From Afar
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Wavering Faith — Notes From Afar
I am accepting of contradiction, but recently I feel numb. I try to imagine frustration is a large pond in the middle of the forest. In the soothing isolation of my introspection, I wade into the water and let it wash over me. It can be hard to understand the ocean from dry land. Surrounding […]
Wavering Faith — Notes From Afar
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Monday Muse — Notes From Afar
My Vampiress — Notes From Afar
The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us. Anne Rice – Interview With the Vampire Vampires and Vampiresses can obtain great age and wisdom. Let’s have some fun. You know, when the world is churning and burning all around us and in the face of an imposing fate, we make […]
My Vampiress — Notes From Afar
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Fighting Mental Wars | How to Stay Alive During these Uncertain Times — Notes From Afar
Originally posted on Apple Rae: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCgt-d8m1c8 Part One: It’s easy. It’s easy to become prey and be eaten alive by our own set of negative thinking. Those dialogues in our head that battle and bring us in a deep state of anxiety or maybe even depression. Thoughts that tell us how hopeless life currently is…
Fighting Mental Wars | How to Stay Alive During these Uncertain Times — Notes From Afar
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River of Soul — Notes From Afar
Reflection — Notes From Afar
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. Marianne Williamson, When Love Takes Flight. On a plane to Africa, I thought of you. The river between Mozambique and Zimbabwe was beautiful, and deadly too. Out in the high country, across the Black Sea, I needed you. Frozen and exhausted, I wanted to […]
Reflection — Notes From Afar
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Connection — Notes From Afar
Apple Rae, The Idea Provoker, brings us an enlightened message for the new world born in Pandemic.
Connection — Notes From Afar
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Kindness — Notes From Afar
Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind. Henry James Cloudy eyes under folds of skin charred by a life of sun and wind by chance stopped me on the quay awaiting transport to my next sin. […]
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Gaston the Cat-Prologue — Notes From Afar
In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this. Terry Pratchett It was a dark and stormy night. Little Gaston, a waif of a cat with ribs showing through lackluster fur, searched vainly for his Kibbles and Bits. The bastards forgot me again, he sighed. These were famine times and Gaston […]
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I Remember That Day — Notes From Afar
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them. Laurence Binyon In flames and rivers of crimson, they lay, With weary eyes, they saw their fate. As the […]
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Paint Me-10 — Notes From Afar
Gunnar enters the gates of samsara to try again to find his love.
Paint Me-10 — Notes From Afar
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Paint Me-9 — Notes From Afar
Gunnar becomes obsessed with Sari’s portrait and Sari leaves Gunnar to set him free.
Paint Me-9 — Notes From Afar
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Paint Me-8 — Notes From Afar
Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey. Lord Byron The millwork paid well. Gunnar’s body and mind responded well to physical labor. Hard work made him hungry, and he looked forward to the joy of a hot meal and Sari’s companionship. She kept him always striving to catch up for […]
Paint Me-8 — Notes From Afar
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Paint Me-7 — Notes From Afar
Sari seems to have pulled Gunnar back from the edge but Gaston is getting a bit peeved with all the love making out of season.
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Paint Me-6 — Notes From Afar
Sari drifts into Melanie’s persona and captures Gunnar’s heart and the playful attention of the otters by the spillway.
Paint Me-6 — Notes From Afar
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Paint Me-5 — Notes From Afar
Sari and Gunnar bond over the painting Sari has commissioned from Gunnar.
Paint Me-5 — Notes From Afar
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Paint Me-4 — Notes From Afar
Gunnar begins the journey to paint Sari.
Paint Me-4 — Notes From Afar
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Paint Me-3 — Notes From Afar
Gunnar, desperate to fund his obsession with painting, meets an interesting admirer of his art.
Paint Me-3 — Notes From Afar
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Paint Me-2 — Notes From Afar
The short days of fall in the mountains were beautiful times to Melanie. She felt the cool darkness travel along her arms and face as she made her way along the forest trail. She loved how everything was covered in the burnt ocher of clouds set aflame by the sunset. The last light of day […]
Paint Me-2 — Notes From Afar
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Paint Me-1 — Notes From Afar
An artist becomes lost in his art and his subject unaware that his subject is lost in him.
Paint Me-1 — Notes From Afar
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Announcing Paint Me — Notes From Afar
The history of melancholia includes all of us. Charles Bukowski I’d like to let all of my dear readers know that with the conclusion of The March of the Cybrids, I’ll be starting a new novella entitled, Paint Me. This is a story about an eccentric painter obsessed with trying to capture the beauty he […]
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March of the Cybrids-Epilogue — Notes From Afar
After every war comes the reconciliation. While governments feud, old soldiers come to terms.
March of the Cybrids-Epilogue — Notes From Afar
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March of the Cybrids-30 — Notes From Afar
Valeriya meets Kirill and offers him a way to peace for his Cybrids.
March of the Cybrids-30 — Notes From Afar
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March of the Cybrids-29 — Notes From Afar
Valeriya arrives at Kirills command post and uses her friendly relationship with staff to see Kirill.
March of the Cybrids-29 — Notes From Afar
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March of the Cybrids-28 — Notes From Afar
Gloria and Raul give all they have and yet there is still more to do.
March of the Cybrids-28 — Notes From Afar
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March of the Cybrids-27 — Notes From Afar
Gloria and Raul fight the Cybrid Rebels hand to hand but taking damage as they go.
March of the Cybrids-27 — Notes From Afar
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March of the Cybrids-26 — Notes From Afar
Raul and Gloria spend what could be their last night together as they prepare to confront the Cybrid Rebels.
March of the Cybrids-26 — Notes From Afar
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March of the Cybrids-25 — Notes From Afar
Gloria and Raul arrive at the Safe House in Tbilisi and prepare to confront Vika.
March of the Cybrids-25 — Notes From Afar
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March of the Cybrids-24 — Notes From Afar
Gloria and Raul are surprised to meet Val when she turns up to take them to Tbilisi.
March of the Cybrids-24 — Notes From Afar
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March of the Cybrids-22 — Notes From Afar
Gloria and Raul decide to risk making contact in a remote Georgian village to resupply and contact their mission handler.
March of the Cybrids-22 — Notes From Afar
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March of the Cybrids-21 — Notes From Afar
Gloria and Raul decide to try a resupply in a small village and discover the impact of the Cybrid war on locals.
March of the Cybrids-21 — Notes From Afar
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March of the Cybrids-20 — Notes From Afar
Valeriya meets with the Rebel leaders to find Gloria and Raul and kill them.
March of the Cybrids-20 — Notes From Afar
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March of the Cybrids-19 — Notes From Afar
A Scent of Life The agonizing sobs stopped. The forest was quiet, except for a fresh offshore breeze that teased the leaves on branches in the trees and trampled brush. Tall grass leaned over in rippling waves and pointed at the carnage inside the tree line whispering, over there and there, there too. Raul stopped […]
March of the Cybrids-19 — Notes From Afar
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March of the Cybrids-18 — Notes From Afar
Gloria and Raul make landfall on the beach and are ambushed by the rebel Cybrids.
March of the Cybrids-18 — Notes From Afar
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March of the Cybrids-17 — Notes From Afar
Gloria and Raul prepare for battle but there is always time for love.
March of the Cybrids-17 — Notes From Afar
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March of the Cybrids-16 — Notes From Afar
Gloria convinces Raul to join her on her mission to decapitate the Cybrid Rebel leadership and end the war.
March of the Cybrids-16 — Notes From Afar
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Midnight Confessions — Notes From Afar
Kara journeys back in time to understand her future.
Midnight Confessions — Notes From Afar
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March of the Cybrids-15 — Notes From Afar
Gloria reenters the scene for a last mission in the final days of the Cybrid War.
March of the Cybrids-15 — Notes From Afar
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March of the Cybrids-14 — Notes From Afar
The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in abysses of solitude. Kate Chopin, The Awakening The Seduction A year later, Mariah gazed out the window at the river below. The thought of how much of her life was spent daydreaming through glass amused her? It […]
March of the Cybrids-14 — Notes From Afar
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March of the Cybrids-13 — Notes From Afar
Mariah strives to recover from her injury and put the trauma behind her.
March of the Cybrids-13 — Notes From Afar
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March of the Cybrids-12 — Notes From Afar
The Dragons struggle to reunite their enclaves in support of the Cybrids while Mariah struggles with her fractured consciousness.
March of the Cybrids-12 — Notes From Afar
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March of the Cybrids-11 — Notes From Afar
The Empress Dowager Lee remembers the beginning of the Cybrid plan as the leadership discusses what to do about the emerging rebellion.
March of the Cybrids-11 — Notes From Afar
