"RETRIEVE": A BOOK #3 PROJECT
This page is devoted to all the writing and work related to a “Book #3” Project, entitled “RETRIEVE”.
This page will be updated over time as I move up and along a learning curve, for both writing this newest book project, and for organizing and presenting everything on this Substack in ways that will help people explore and check things out.
Author’s Notes on what’s going on:
This “Book #3” project, “RETRIEVE” could be read as a standalone story.
The prologue for “RETRIEVE”, “An Impossible Island”, was submitted as a short story.
Prologue: “An Impossible Island”, Part One and Part Two, and Part Three, was inspired by writing prompts from the Soaring Twenties Social Club (STSC) creative community, beginning with an STSC Symposium monthly theme of “Beach”.
Chapter 1, “Older Than Bones”, was inspired by the theme, “Dinosaurs”.
Chapter 2, A Love Trinity Denied, was inspired by “Romance”.
Chapter 3, “A Forgotten Circle Of Hades”, was inspired by “Superstition”.
Chapter 4, “Reading The Room”, was inspired by an image of a wall-sized bookshelf.
Chapter 5, “The Bittersweetness Of Deep Times”, was inspired by “Isolation”.
Chapter 6, “The Weaving Of Split Infinities”, was inspired by “Dreams”.
Chapter 7, “Dead Languages”, was inspired by “Propaganda”.
Chapter 8, “Paths Forsaken”, was inspired by “Risk”.
Tentative Schedule - With Planned Completion December 16, 2023
Chapter 9, The Last Word Of the World
Chapter 10, An Intimate Path Of Desires
Chapter 11, Absent Without Longing
Chapter 12, Lonely In The Same Room
Chapter 13, Children Of Daedalus
Chapter 14, People Of A Faraway Land
Chapter 15, Distant Shores, Distant Worlds
Chapter 16, The Rules of New Places
Chapter 17, Space To Breathe
Chapter 18, The Extra Air
Chapter 19, The Clash Of Selves
Chapter 20, The Last Meme
Chapter 21, Mistakes And Memories
Chapter 22, The Confusions Of Things
Chapter 23, The Senses Of Wonders
Chapter 24, The Gambits Of Curiosities
Chapter 25, Remembrance of Things To Come
Chapter 26, The Last Afterparty
Chapter 27, Eternity In Mind
Chapter 28, Three
Chapter 29, Two
Chapter 30, One
AFTERWORD
Each book I’ve written came with a music playlist which sometimes inspired or was inspired by imagery that came to me, sometimes before I wrote.