The Empress Kuan Yin

By R.S. Kellogg

The Empress Kuan Yin's annual search for the balancing point of the year begins in a suburban backyard . . .
Few alien visitors to Earth get as much acclaim and esteem as the Empress Kuan Yin.
Bound by certain laws, when someone prays for her, she must traverse time and space to show up.
Called to an empty suburban backyard, Kuan Yin must figure out why.
A story that explores the power and pain of embracing authentic gender identity, and the worth of an individual soul.

• Language: English
• Publisher: R.S. Kellogg
• Release date: Jul 10, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201478223

R.S. Kellogg

 R.S. Kellogg writes in the fantasy Breadcove Bay series, as well as exploring other story worlds and non-fiction topics.

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The Empress Kuan Yin

R.S. Kellogg

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To Nancy

The Empress Kuan Yin

By R.S. Kellogg

The trouble with visiting Earth is that if you stay long enough, and have any level of power, the locals will assign you as either a demon or a deity.

There are headaches either way.

And, due to their cycles of religion, sometimes the locals will assign you as both. Usually by different factions though.

Kuan Yin sat on an ornamental jasper stone throne with a tall back and curving armrests that a devotee had ordered carved in her honor to invite her presence into the family’s backyard garden behind a tasteful old house in Virginia.

She felt, as she often did when she gathered herself and paused, the depth and weight of her years on this planet.

She felt them like a tree feels its years in rings and roots, anchoring it where it stands, tall, thick, and rooted to the life force of this Earth, somehow both itself and yet connected with all beings. Many years stretched behind her, and endless centuries remained before Kuan Yin’s work here would be finished.

Her pet white cockatoo flitted in various spaces within the backyard.

She saw him:

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