PRL Serials

  • The Divine Essence – 7 – A New Angel

    After a long shift at the fancy restaurant in Manhattan, New York where she waits tables, serves drinks, and sometimes fills in on the mainstage when the musical act can’t go on, Ariel Baxter’s big eyes are usually half cocked, and her dark brown skin shines with sweat that beads on her forehead and glistens…

  • The Divine Essence – 6 – Freedom

    An Earther in the Fonlands – 5 As she stood in the lush forest of the disc of Agê, Coffey felt a feeling she had never known before. She felt calm. Before her death, Coffey’s mother, Alita, had taught her how to survive in the world of white men, and the lesson that she had…

  • The Divine Essence – 5 – Enter Lêgba

    An Earther in the Fonlands – 2 “Tiriq?” Sene asked as she stood with Lofet, Coffey, Tiriq, and an Earther called Zacchaeus who had splashed down in the swamp earlier in the evening and had been telling them about the strange technology that allowed for his travel. Zacchaeus had told them about the Earth that…

  • Rebel Max in the 21st and a Half Century (2022 Annual) – Issue 1 –

    The Rebel got the name at the end of the 20th Century. Then, the world was familiar. It was human civilization as humans had become accustomed, the realization of thousands of years of evolution both physical and emotional. Technology made the modern day convenient for those with money to afford it, and the great disparities…

  • The Divine Essence (2022 Annual) – Issue 1 – 

     “I can’t believe this stuff you telling me,” Coffey said. She lay on a blade of grass, her wings extended at her back gently wafting in the passing breeze. Lofet also lay on a blade of grass and they both stared up at the sky that was visible through the canopy of the treetops. There…

  • The Divine Essence – 4 – For Hive and Swamp

    “I can’t do this,” Lofet said as he paced the grass. Sene and a group of Umbatia sat at what seemed to be a large table, but it was made from a mound of Earth. Lofet’s seat, which was a small sprout of grass that Umbatia could encourage to grow in a matter of seconds…

  • The Divine Essence – 3 – Life Blood Engine

    “What y’all want from me?” Coffey asked Lofet as they sat at a large table set for a feast. They were on one of the green surfaces that breached the swamp and it was decorated with vegetation to mark a celebration that was attended by many of the Umbatia. They all wore very formal clothing;…

  • The Divine Essence – 2 – A Daughter of Pultine 

    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…

  • The Divine Essence – 1 – A Beginning

    Coffey was delirious. It was late July and there were no clouds in the Carolina sky to shield her from the sun. She could feel the rays mashing into her skin and where they connected, her body was hot from the friction. She wanted to collapse under the perceived weight of the heat that mixed…

  • The Divine Essence – Excerpt – Unrest I cont.

    from the Manual and Reference of the Fonlands The Transatlantic Slave Trade that started in the 1700s on Earth, caused major upheaval for the Fonlanders of Western Africa, some of whom were swept up in the violence and transported to the Americas alongside Africans who would lose their connection to the land of their forebears.  …