In Love With Insanity

By Terrence Bull

Take a journey into Terrence Bull’s realm of fantasy and insanity: where a simple urn, forged by a wizard, is destined to fulfil an ancient prophecy; take a glimpse into the world contained inside a single raindrop; discover an army caught in a terrifying faery’s dream; see inside the mind of insanity through a tear in the fabric of reality; and discover Adam and Eve’s cursed existence; plus many more frightening, entertaining and sometimes hilarious poems and short stories.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Terrence Bull
• Release date: Apr 3, 2020
• ISBN: 9780463859964

Terrence Bull

Terrence Bull has been a marketing and business consultant for over 35 years. He has built, from ground up, more than one global company and has helped thousands of businesses and businesspeople build their companies and achieve their business aspirations.Terrence has run seminars globally and been a global thought leader. He has published many articles and self-help tips for businesspeople over his career.His breakthrough theory of Doctrine Marketing (i.e., marketing centered on beliefs: Marketing=Perception) is now widely taught and accepted as core to modern day marketing practices. Likewise, his Blueprint for Business has become a standard for many businesses when self-diagnosing issues or growing their company.After the COVID-19 lock-down in 2020, many businesspeople reached out to Terrence for help. In order to rapidly solve his client’s primary issues and to make his business coaching services more accessible worldwide, he developed the Magic Beans program. He brought together all the material he had been teaching people over 35+ years as a business & marketing consultant, then created a way to turn people’s thinking and beliefs about business around in just 12 hours—through twelve 1-hour sessions. The Magic Beans program gives people the same thinking and beliefs that has enabled Terrence to grow global companies in a way that still frees him up to pursue his many other passions.For more information go to: www.magicbeans.woo.co

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Take a journey into Terrence Bull’s realm of fantasy and insanity: where a simple urn, forged by a wizard, is destined to fulfil an ancient prophecy; take a glimpse into the world contained inside a single raindrop; discover an army caught in a terrifying faery’s dream; see inside the mind of insanity through a tear in the fabric of reality; and discover Adam and Eve’s cursed existence; plus many more frightening, entertaining and sometimes hilarious poems and short stories.

In Love With Insanity

Copyright 2020 Terrence Bull

Published by Terrence Bull at Smashwords

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

The Urn

The Toy

Clarity of Thought

Gast-a-lion

A Faery's Dream

The Old Stump

The Stare

Fantail

The Profit

Welcome Gnome

As Easy As

Bad Language

The Tear

Onion Pie

Joy

Short Story

A Shadow in the Night

I Remember It All

Invite Me In

Acknowledgements

This is dedicated to my wife and sons; whose inspiration and encouragement made this book possible and helped me to revive a passion I thought was long gone.

The Urn

The Maker

A small flame sparked into life as a match was struck across a rough-hewn stone wall. The workroom of the old wizard began to reveal itself as he lit the many half melted candles dotted around the room. The centre piece was a finely inlaid wooden table on which was strewn an array of scrolls, writing implements and oddly shaped devices crafted from wood and various types and hues of metal. The back wall of the chamber was dominated by an enormous stone fireplace. It housed a large cauldron hanging from a cast iron stand, below which was the remnants of yesterday’s fire. There were no windows within this chamber as it was buried far beneath a towering castle surrounded by a moat bordering lush green fields that stretched out to the edge of a distant forest beyond which rose snow-capped mountains.

A small knock at the heavy metal banded oaken door opposite the fireplace brought a smile to the wizard’s weathered face. He quickly moved to open it and greeted the small girl standing in the passageway struggling under the weight of a large bucket of water.

Moin!

The young girl nodded politely to the old man as she shuffled quickly forward to put the bucket down next to the fireplace.

You are just in time Beatrix. Today we forge the urn Gefäß des Lebens (Vessel of Life).

This brought a smile to the small girl’s face, but she saw in the old man a whisper of sadness behind his resolute smile. Even though she had been waiting eagerly for this day since the tragedy of almost a year ago, she still felt a shiver of fear pass through her.

The Heir

You cannot simply drag a war horse around by its bit young master!, exclaimed the old teacher to his young charge who was struggling atop a large, powerful and stubborn black stallion. Use your knees boy! When a sword is in your hand and the battle rages, you won’t have want of reins anyway. And, lucky for you, Engel knows it.

The boy then let the reins loosen slightly and skilfully guided the horse with the subtle pressure of his knees, turning him from the practice yard into the wide-open fields. He let out a shout as the horse sped off in a graceful, lighting fast, thundering canter towards the towering trees of