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    Terival
    Terival
    Terival
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    Terival

    By Mora Smalshort

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    This short story began as a simple writing experiment while going through a long string of life changes and crises. My first attempt at writing this did not go well. It began with a great motivation to create worlds and people from my own imagination but became an overwhelming endeavor and I eventually lost all focus.

    The story I began as “The Lifemaster” is now “Terival,” and just like the first try, this tale is incomplete.
    As a short installment in relation to the Meidian series, it opens with two old friends discussing a bit of history as far back as the ancient days of the one known throughout their system as “the greatest Mythicon to ever live.”

    Probably not known at all is that the story of Meidian and related side-stories (soon to be written with tentative titles: “Nimith,” “The Morphs,” and “One”) are all spawned from my first not-so-well-received for its questionable and perhaps inappropriate for current times content, titled “Dear Love,” about an immortal being, or mediator who allows his obsessions to get in the way of his duties during his short time upon Earth.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMora Smalshort
    Release dateMay 18, 2019
    ISBN9780463550649
    Terival
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    Mora Smalshort

    Here I am, a hobbyist (I write the stories and do the best I can with the artwork for the book covers as well). The odd stuff is what I am, can't change that.-- All the best.

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