Anamelia, a Tale before Dying
By Alec Silva
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A tale about a girl with heterochromatic eyes that just wanted to flee to a magical world. Between her and her dream, there are only a rock and seven challenging tasks.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Anamelia is a young girl than always wanted run away, know the world beyond the orphanage walls. She needed visit the fantastic lands than read about, as any reader, like me or you.
However, as few people, Anamelia surrender to her major desire. She's ran away. So, her journey began. Thereafter, we enter in a magic and dark world. The author uses fairy tales elements to mold his distorted and distressing own fairy tale.
Here, Alec travelling in the horror with propriety, but you don't must expect blood splattering and that kind of gore thing. You don't must expect most of the same, like recents hollywood movies. In this journey, right here, the writer dive deeply in the dark rooms of the human psyche.
Anamelia looks like a typical little undefended lady of the infant stories, but was built like a character perfectly human. The orphan with a painfull past and a uncertain future doesn't represent the classic stories' manichaeism. She passes for provations, tests that will origate her to let emerge the better and worse of herself.
The author narrative's is impeccable. Characters, dialogs; the charmed and the bizarre in sintony, showing influence of artists like Tim Burton, Guillermo Del Toro and Zack Snyder, but keeping a singular personality.
The Anamelia's tasks bring the story to the darkness. Horrorfull creatures, scary places, fears than aflict the most brave of the men. However, the most terrible is the human nature and it tendence to corrupt sefl. The selfishness, bittersweet selfshness.
Each task show a new surprise, and bring us to close de protagonist. And, aprouching to the end, we need, we desire, to know the ending. A endding cruel, surprisely em very inteligent then touch the reader in deep.
Each task shows a new surprise, and brings us to close to the protagonist. And, approaching to the end, we need, we desire, know the ending. A ending cruel, surprisingly and very intelligent that touches the reader in deep.
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Anamelia, a Tale before Dying - Alec Silva
For those who have experienced the unpleasantness of life. For those who are to suffer such unpleasantness. And for me, who found inspiration to write in the soul's pain.
Short Summary
The idea of A Tale Before Dying It is not to bring tales of horror, nor frighten the reader. No, death is not a horrible monster that hides behind the door, or an uncontrollable beast or that vengeful fury. She is beautiful, deep and so essential to our evolution in life. And exploring its facets - and her sister's, the life - is the proposal of the collection that begins with Anamelia, A tale of fantasy, horror and drama, inspired by the most fascinating fairy tales and contemporary gothic movies.
I cannot extend myself because the lady approaches with her scythe and the immense book already open, selecting the reader of her story. But I can assure that the story today was only possible thanks to Tim Burton, Guillermo Del Toro and Zack Snyder, directors who provided interesting films about dreams, fears, imagination, fantasy, and nightmares.
I hope you enjoy reading and we will see each other soon when Death leaves after a new reader.
Now, hush. The first story is about to begin...
Alec Silva
I have on me all the dreams of the world.
Fernando Pessoa
I
The girl who wanted to escape
Anamelia always wanted to run away.
On cold nights, while lost in her fanciful readings, the desire to leave this boring world captivated her. Wonderful realms and magical lands fascinated her a lot, and as a child, hearing her father narrating about princesses and princes, dreamed of one day finding a portal and escape. With the death of her parents, on that gloomy winter, she closed herself in a still childish world, being welcomed by elves and fairies, wishing to review those who would never be seen alive again.
She grew up. Yes, because every child grows.
However, Anamelia still wanted to run away.
In the evenings at the orphanage, when the caretaker visited her and played those games that no one should know that he did, the urge to flee was enormous. She never enjoyed, although the candy received at the end were good. And the other girls were not gentle, teasing her for her two-colored eyes or her taste for fantasy books.
When she was adopted, she also wanted to escape.
Not that the family that treated her so well were the reason, but that desire was too crescent. It was part of her soul the yearning for escape.
One day, of course, Anamelia fled. Forever.
It was such a cold night that dreams froze in the air, the slightest sigh of love was crystallized and the tears became diamond droplets. The snow covered the streets and souls, although those were happier and able to keep themselves warm.
No one saw the girl, such a beautiful young woman, leave.
Anamelia succeeded.
She had finally fled.
II
A stone on the way
The girl straightened her jacket as she stared at the white mixed black; the night wind rocked her straight hair, putting it on her eyes, one blue and the other black. With the backpack, she was again a little girl, her heart pounding firm, a pleasant rhythm of anxiety. Even with the crochet gloves, her fingers were frozen. The cap on her head helped to heat it though it seemed useless.
The trees, with their branches almost leafless and covered by snow, had a hideous appearance at that hour of the night; and the distant barking of dogs was capable of causing her chills. The posts and illuminated the park, which was almost deserted, except for the young female figure passing.
During the countless times she walked by there, Anamelia tried recording in her mind the details of the place, the banks to fountain, from trees to points that could guide her way to the woods.
Yes, the forest.
Legends told that the modest grove of melancholy was a place where lived some magical creatures, brought long ago by a mysterious man. Before the city was built, there was a village that worshiped nature, formed by people who had direct contact with the mystical beings. Magic emanated of every thing and person, shamelessly. And all were very happy as well.
At one point, said the reports, there was a portal that allowed the