Welcome back to Volume 2 of the PRL Serials, a summer of self improvement and advancement. We hope things have been prosperous for you, and we are excited to be back at it, presenting the best serial fiction on the internet. It’s been a long break, so we’ll get right to it.
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Parallel Principle #4 : Make moves that surprise yourself.
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It’s important to be spontaneous. Spontaneity is a sure sign of adaptability that is a common characteristic of the influential. Find ways to wander into uncharacteristic environments and make it a mission to meet someone in that place. You may not form lasting connections with everyone you meet, but you will be developing the skills necessary to meet the influential people you are sure to form lasting and rewarding friendships with. Allow yourself to be surprised by something today and take note of how you navigate the encounter.
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We’ll see you next week for Issue 5!
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How did Azalaan, Daemon Sultan, Ruler of the Outer Gods, come to be an investigator? Find out now.
The Black Man Who Was Thursday: “If he was going to stop his enemies who wanted to do away with the status quo, he would have to outsmart them. He couldn’t be sure that the investigators who recruited him could be as smart as he was, so they wouldn’t be able to stop whatever madness Sunday had already unleashed on the country. ”
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Coffey has a magical time in a swamp. She also learns something about her history that no human seems to have known before.
The Divine Essence: “The swamp became a magical place for Coffey. When she first laid eyes on it, it was just a large, murky lake with lush vegetation springing up from its depths and at its borders, with forms of green-capped islands randomly breaching the surface. The trees that grew in the area were large and the canopy created a ceiling over the entire swampy lake that to Coffey seemed to stretch on for miles in front of her.”
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Meet Wesley’s sister, Ruby, as she arrives somewhat angrily to the Livingston male bonding conversation. She’s not angry for long and the conversation gets much more complex.
Come Close: “Rubaline “Ruby” Fae Livingston Jr has the same name as our mother, but the two could not be more different. They look alike, when my sister was a young girl she was the spitting image of my mother in pictures of her at the same age.”
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It seems that Afonso has a legacy, though it gets mixed reviews from residents of Ladoga. Lincoln Crowder may be a descendant of Afonso, but don’t ask his daddy about it.
Sun of the Morning: “When older people saw him performing, people pushing seventy who had lived their entire lives in Ladoga and were a living well of the town’s history, they would say that he looked just like his great grandfather Afonso, though no one could say for sure who was actually related to Afonso because he only did the work to make children but was never around long enough to have his name on any birth certificates or to submit to DNA tests.”
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There is a new faith offering a path to bliss. Will you take the Escalator up? No one knows how high up it goes or what it leads to, but this way lies everlasting deliverance.
Shuffle: “The man stared at the wide, metallic staircase that was in the middle of the vast field and narrowed as it ascended. There were horizontal plates of moving stairs at the center of the staircase and on either side were stairs of metal that filled in the space to the fancy guardrail that looked to be carved of white stone.”
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Is it true that people are the product of their environments? If that is true, then what of free will? There must be some way to reconcile the two. Tamarvan Barnes was the son of interesting people, but the home he was born into, isn’t the one you’d imagine to produce the man that Tamarvan became.
A Misguided Solution: “The courtship of Calvin and Esther is among the greatest love stories ever told of the Bottoms. The two were inseparable and some say that Esther’s influence tempered Calvin’s more aggressive impulses. Others say that Calvin enhanced the aggressive aspects of Esther, who had been known as a very genial girl, but who became an aggressive woman toward other females especially who she thought looked too long or longingly at Calvin.”
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It’s the PRL Serials Volume 2! Voted the number one self help guide of 2022…by someone!
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