This is what a doe feels, when the hunter finally stops circling and just stands there. “I’m ready. If you’ll have me.” “Ma’am.” March: gives more than Spring Months of walking the same treeline for nothing, and then he’s simply there — the way weather arrives, no warning worth the name. The Distance Between Them…
Tag: grounded magical realism
Character Spotlight: Asdar the Dacian Shapeshifter from the Apuseni Mountains. Azad – Quantum Jump.
He was raised to be a ritual tool in the Apuseni mountains. He fell in love with the woman his clan kidnapped for a sex ritual, and chose to spend the rest of his exsistence guarding her from the shadows. Who Is Asdar? Asdar is a Dacian priest from Romania’s Apuseni mountains, born into a…
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…
Lake Baikal – Reincarnated God, Crawls Out – QuantumJump
Tarmo Amellal shouldn’t have survived the Python god in Lake Fundudzi. Instead, he wakes naked on the shores of Lake Baikal, skin lit from within, memories of Odin and Ra burning behind his eyes. This is the godhood reboot chapter of my Azad / Quantum Jump arc—where heritage, myth, and time travel collide, and one man decides how to use his recycled divinity as leverage. Read the full field note and chapter extract on the blog.
Plane-Walking Wolf in a Neon World: Asdar and Elena in Dark Fantasy Graphic Prose
Quantum Jump – Book VI: London, Asdar can’t reach her. He can only watch the thread go thin across three thousand years — Elena somewhere with standing stones and mist, Mikhail beside her, building something the universe dragged her backward to make. A field note on plane-walking, the cost of magic, and why this series won’t let motherhood stay symbolic.
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…
The Memory Cartographer 