Fractions of
Existence by J. Lenni Dorner
Publication Date: September 20, 2017
Publication Date: September 20, 2017
Once
they were humanity's exalted protectors— now they are being hunted.
Xavier
will weigh all human life against Gwendolyn's ignorant happiness.
The
good news is that her choice can blow his away.
Omnipotent
beings find each other while playing an online game. Xavier has been searching
for Gwendolyn, his true mate and the missing member of the Existence. Only if
reunited can the group regain the rest of their memories and access all of
their powers. Hidden in plain sight, disguised as humans, they help who they
can, as best they can, when they can.
The
Eyes in the Shadows, a religious sect, has been trying to free humans from the
“prison” of life on Earth for millenniums. The Existence has always been able
to thwart them… until now. They've discovered a way to end the world that no
one will see coming.
Gwendolyn
has her future all laid out. There is a plan. She knows what her parents want
for her and how to get it. Then Xavier, a friend from a virtual game, makes her
question everything. He's full of secrets, one being an understanding of her
fear of the wind.
She
tries to suppress her intense attraction to the mysterious and frustrating
Xavier. She's engaged, after all, and the thoughts she's having aren't proper.
Gwendolyn is swept into a whirlwind of secrets, danger, and a forbidden
attraction. She'll drive across the country in her beat-up old car, not knowing
if he is genuinely interested or just being polite. (He refuses to kiss her!)
Gwendolyn's journey is full of self-doubt, sacrifice, and dark visions that
invade her sleep. Will she uncover the truth about herself?
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The world of …
(World Building)
I
wrote a non-fiction book, Preparing to Write Settings that Feel Like
Characters, which offers help to those planning to do a certain kind of world
building.
With
Fractions of Existence, however, I wrote using settings that are real and
injected the story into them. New York City is real. The buildings Xavier lives
in and runs his company from are theoretically possible. Where Wend lives and
the places she travels to all could exist. That's what the world building in
this book is about-- being plausible.
As
the series goes on, the locations where the members of the Existence live all
become more bizarre and interesting. The locations begin to give clues about what
the characters are.
Here's part of a
scene from Fractions of Existence that mentions two of the main settings, and
reveals the economic status of these characters. (Very few people can afford to
live above 800 feet in Manhattan, where as an 1,800 square foot house in
southern California indicates that Wend is slightly below middle-class.) Xavier
and Wend are in an online chat. Heath is at Xavier's home. :
"I
suppose that would be all right. I am nowhere near New York, though. I'm a
California gal, actually."
Heath
shook his head.
"At
least I learned her sex and location," Xavier remarked.
"Yes.
The other side of the country."
The
rest of the conversation was just as slow. Heath drained his water as he got
off the sofa. He strolled over to the picture window. Crossing his arms, he
looked out over the city. The glowing pale orange of the sunset melded well
with the shades of the first autumn leaves.
Heath's
superior vision made seeing over eight hundred feet below as easy as seeing
eight feet away. A short woman with curves caught his eye.
"36-24-36," he sang to himself, laughing at the song in his head.
He
watched her walk her Dalmatian toward the building across the street. A man in
a brown coat stepped into the picture, greeting the woman with a kiss.
"Enjoy
her, mate." He pressed his hand to the glass and shut his eyes from the
happy scene.
The
last raindrops hit the Manhattan pavement as the rush of workers heading home
shifted to the slow pace of the evening wanderers. This was the last place most
anyone would expect extraordinary creatures, ones so in tune with nature, to
meander. Only a handful of Lenni-Lenape story keepers understood what lured
such legends to this location.
Far
away, in an 1,800 square-foot home in the Golden State, a gray-eyed maiden
typed replies to her new gamer friend. She did not know the impact they would
have on each other. She never considered how much common history two strangers
could share. The possibility of falling for him didn't enter her mind. A conspired
against union was unpredictable. She couldn't know, as she typed her next line,
how much the course of her life would change.
ABOUT
THE AUTHOR
J.
competed in Write Club 2014 &2016. The Creative Writing Institute held
writing contests that resulted in J Lenni Dorner being published in
"WRONG!: A themed anthology 2014" and LOST!: A themed anthology 2017.
J self-published "Preparing to Write Settings That Feel Like
Characters," in 2015. Winner of the Write Edit Publish Now flash fiction
"Youthful Frights versus Adult Fears" Halloween challenge 2015.
Signum University's Mythgard Institute held a creative writing contest in the
autumn of 2015 called "Almost an Inkling" in which J Lenni Dorner was
the Popular Vote Winner of week 6, resulting in publication in The Soul of Wit.
The Operation Awesome Flash Fiction Contest 12 win in April 2016 went to J
Lenni Dorner.
A
to Z Challenge co-host as of 2017.
When
not reading or writing, J enjoys video games, laughing at funny cat videos,
finding drawings of dragons on Pinterest, and watching movies.
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