A Gift from the Sea : Story Home
I have to begin here with a warning. "A Gift from the Sea" is a long standing work in progress and it is very far from a completed tale. It's intended as an oblique kind of sequel to my earlier story, The Autumn Country which you can also find elsewhere in the Discontinuum (and that one is finished). There is a tenuous link between the two pieces which the reader may deduce, but my intent is not to make over much of this link and to allow each piece to stand on its own and to be read in any order.
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Please bypass this piece if you don't like "tasters", as there is plenty more on the site that is finished - in fact this is the only unfinished work I've decided to make public because it justifies some of the associated world building for The World of the Long Sleep. A Gift from the Sea has spent a long time on the shelf (too long; more than ten years now) whilst I allowed myself to be distracted by the Klane Kalonia art work and stories, that span off from this one, but this story did come first and I still have ideas and plans for it.
As of the second half of 2022, I have began to actively work on the story again. I already had a timeline for the World of the Long Sleep and some basic articles to link the tales of Klane Kalonia to later happenings. At the beginning of the year I put a lot of work into fleshing these out with broader and deeper content, including mapping continents and illustrating all the cities of the awakened world and the moon too. More recently, I've greatly expanded the article about Anoomenon, mapped the city, and enriched the information about some of its various districts.
Now I intend to get back to the hard work of actually writing the story itself. I've finally completed a basic draft of the second chapter (which was begun a very long time ago in another age of the real world) and although I am sure I will want to revise and improve it, it is time to move on to new chapters. Rather than waiting until everything is finished (because who knows when, or even if that will be) I've decided that with this project I'll post work in progress pretty much whenever I have a chunk of writing completed. If you don't mind reading incompleted text which will more than likely be subject to editing revisions as we go along, then feel free to dip in and sample the ongoing work, as and when it arrives.
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