DragonBacks, book two
The Oracle’s Wonder
I hunger for the lost dreams of the ancestor I once was.
It is being written the way the first one was written. In the small hours, over smoke, in the company of whatever arrives. I cannot tell you yet when it will be finished, because that is not mine to decide. What I can do is give you the first seven chapters now.
It opens like this
Chapter one. Smoke beyond the trees.
The forest opens its green-fringed lips and smacks them with an inner bud-tasting humidity. The lightest of wet breaks with their own sweat and mixes in unity, inner and outer realms of bodily and jungle moisture. It speaks under their clothes and makes limbs loose, yet also seeking containment. Their muscles are tired from the warmed openness and use, yet they walk on. The emerald floor swallowing their footsteps, so only the deeply skilled would ever know they had tread there.
Six more chapters follow this one
Read the first seven chapters
Leave your name and an email address and the whole sample opens straight away. About twenty minutes of reading, and wherever you stop is kept for you, so you can come back to it.
You will be the first to know when The Oracle’s Wonder is finished. Now and then before that, I will write when there is something worth telling you about: the valley, the music, whatever else is coming into form.
While it is being written
Book one is already out in the world, and there is plenty else to wander into.
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Book one, Cuckoo, written from the body to the body.
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Festivals, retreats, rituals, ceremonies and rites of passage.
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DragonBacks · by Olivka Wilk
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