Excerpt:
She
stood up, carrying with her this vision of a place she was seeing in her mind.
It was a beautiful room, wide and spacious with a breeze of roses entering
through a clear window. A hand carved wooden desk sat under the window and on
top of the desk was a pile of fresh parchment and a big clear jar of dark
purple ink. A pen with a blue feather sat on top the paper.
That
was all. All she needed now. In this moment, a desire so strong rose up in her
and lifted her spirit. She desired this place, this ink, and that’s all. Her
body was done. It had exhausted itself, a physical exhaustion beyond anything
she had felt, like she had run hundreds of days without stopping. She rested
her head against the tree. The bugs spread apart and stopped crawling as they
felt in her breath, the kind of truth that is undeniable. The truth of her
exhaustion. She told them all, “If only I could have, a quiet place all my own
where I can write by the sunshine, the smell of the sea in the wind that comes
to me.”
The
bones were breaking under her feet, the bones in her hands, crushing as she
pushed again. Nothing left. No human strength in her.
But
the tree. The tree had strength to feel her. It knew her hands, her breath, it
had taken her stories, her secrets, her prayers. It always heard her. It shaded
her from her shady world. It danced its branches around her and swung with her
when she swung from the swing that was no more. It knew her roots. It couldn’t
hold onto itself like she couldn’t. It wanted to speak back to her and this
would be its way...
BLURB:
The
Sugarspear Chronicles, the incredible twenty-six-novella saga that started with
a little girl and her willow tree, is finally available in one complete
collection.
The Sugarspear Chronicles: The
Complete Collection is the story of young Sadie Sugarspear, a girl who endures
intolerable abuse by reading about a fantasy world filled with incredible sights
and outlandish people—a place she’s only ever encountered through her real
father’s storybook.
One day, when the cruelty becomes
too much to bear, Sadie runs away and hides inside her beloved willow tree. To
her surprise, the tree opens, sending Sadie down into the abyss, into a land
she’s only ever read about—where she must being a long, terrifying, and
heartbreaking journey home.
Readers can now enjoy the entirety
of author Nicole Arlyn’s dark fantasy saga in one complete book. This complete
collection also includes a note from the author detailing the inspiration and
events that led to The Sugarspear Chronicles.
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Nicole is a writer and an
actress born in Brooklyn, New York. She has worked in films such as Clay
Pigeons, opposite Joaquin Phoenix; The Wedding Planner; and Brooklyn Bound,
among many others. She has performed, written and directed theater productions
in New York, Los Angeles, and Europe. She has also read her poems in many
poetry lounges in Europe and America, and is a song lyricist for musicians.
After living in Rome, Italy,
for the past several years, Nicole has returned to New York City where she
lives with her husband and son. She is at work on more novels.
My authors page on Full
Fathom Fives website:
(Buy links here)
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