Some men declare themselves. Mikhail never did. His job and dedication kept him in place – in Zurich, in St. Petersburg, on a mountainside in Iran, Yerevan, at the edge of a lake with a python god in it – until “his place” stopped being a task and started being an emotion. The Man Who…
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Irkutsk, Odin, Rha a Siberian Hotel – Azad – Quantum Jump
“I am Rha. I do not betray the light.” Field Notes: Twelve Hours Some chapters are about magic interfering. This one is about a man trying to interfere, in a hostel room in Irkutsk, with a bottle he keeps picking up and putting back down. Reclaiming What’s His Three months gone — presumed dead by…
Samhain, The Cat Stone, Uisneach – Across Time Veil. Azad – Quantum Jump
“In this world of illusions, you only see what you feel.” Field Notes: What the Fire Remembers There’s a particular kind of vertigo that comes from writing two characters who are looking at each other across four thousand years and neither of them quite knowing it. That’s where this week’s pages live — one foot…
From Midlands to Hackney – Asdar’s Ink, Azad Book VI
The pure heart shall sing when dying. Field notes have been hugging the spotlight lately while I’ve been editing – so here’s an excerpt from today’s chapter instead. Promise I won’t go all anthropologist on you. This one’s Asdar. London. A red Volvo with a cracked headlight, a lockup in Walthamstow, cash counted without looking…
Maputo to Berbera Route by Cargo Ship The Prophecy unfolds
“One day a daughter of the daughters must assist The Daughter.” Stuck on a cargo ship heading toward Berbera, Sandi uncovers a centuries-old secret tying Elena, Mikael, and an army of blue-eyed children to the unnamed baby in her arms. Fieldnotes Book VI Quantum Jump.
Airmid, the Voynich Manuscript, and a Bronze Age Map of Sacred Ireland
There are days when writing feels like fieldwork again—except the “village” is a Bronze Age grove, the informant is a Celtic healing goddess, and the notebook is the Voynich Manuscript. In Quantum Jump, Elena discovers that a book alone can’t protect forbidden knowledge, so she and Airmid turn the Irish landscape itself into a living cipher: manuscript, sacred sites, and songs woven into one dangerous map.
Natural Causes: Travellers, Harbingers and Haylofts – Quantum Jump
Field Notes from the Indecently Green Roads: Travellers, Harbingers, and One Very Opinionated Horse The choreography of avoidance The Travellers move with the quiet assurance of those familiar with shadows, their horse-drawn carriages gliding softly over the back roads while early dawn cloaks the countryside in muted greys and gentle mist. Their pace is deliberate…
From Soutpansberg, across Pretoria via Maputo to Hargeisa
Sandi’s Journey With Elena’s Baby Walking North With a Borrowed Future: Field Notes from Book VI Quantum Jump There’s a particular silence that lives between border towns and bus stops—too wide to be city noise, too thin to be wilderness. It’s the silence where people carry their lives in plastic bags and photocopied papers, hoping…
Popham England to Bronze Age Ireland (Quantum Jump book VI Field Note)
A time‑traveling anthropologist, a jealous archangel, and a crime boss in a Popham shack collide with African and Celtic mythology in Quantum Jump—from Lake Fundudzi’s python god to the Irish healing goddess Airmid, this chapter blends fantasy, folklore, and dark humour into one very messy timeline. Welcome to my world!
Bronze Age, Angel, Golden Milk
The Day My Angel’s God Didn’t Exist Yet – Book VI Quantum Jump This is an excerpt from my in‑progress novel: a sardonic anthropologist, an ex‑KGB archangel, and a sideways fall into the Bronze Age steppe, where the body and the cosmos argue through milk, blood, and hooves. Context: Elena has just fallen into a…
The Memory Cartographer 