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The Storytellers: Galactic Neighbourhood

I have been making progress on The Storytellers (Book 2 of the Enanika Series). Here is part of Chapter 10.

The bookshop heater clicked every few minutes and the old wall clock near the philosophy shelves announced the passing of time. When the Reading Rooms breathed quietly, so did Anu. And so did Michael. 

Anu was shelving a box of donated books and a folded paper slipped from between the pages of an astronomy atlas. It fluttered to the floor like a winged prayer. She picked it up. It was a map of stars. 

Sol (Earth’s sun) lay at the centre, surrounded by star systems within 13 light-years. It wasn’t all the star systems within that range. Only some of them, making it… selective. All the more interesting.

Anu carried the map to the front counter. Michael looked up from balancing the previous month’s accounts.

“What have you found?”

She put the map down and said, “Our local stellar neighbourhood.”

Michael adjusted his glasses and studied the names:

Proxima Centauri. Alpha Centauri. Barnard’s Star. Wolf 359. Luyten 726-8. Sirius. Ross 154. Ross 248. Epsilon Eridani. 61 Cygni. Epsilon Indi. Procyon A. Tau Ceti. Kruger 60.

“I thought there were more stars than this within 13 light-years of us,” he said.

“There are.”

“Then why these?”

“These are the ones that have particular relevance to Earth,” explained Anu…

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The Missing Years

Six years ago, after the three-day Sirius alignment, Anu had been invited by Nadhir to begin storyteller training.

Earth was still vivid inside her. Milkwood, the winter solstice dark, the sound of Fat Cow Creek below the falls, and Enlan’s torchlight falling across the path ahead of her as he said, “Goodbye, my love.” 

She felt the pull of it clearly. She felt, just as clearly, what Nadhir was offering. She held them both, and then she turned towards Enanika, and the training began…

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Back in Town

I hope you enjoyed Enanika (Book 1 of the Enanika Series). I have now begun writing Book 2.

A lot has happened in the space between Books 1 and 2. For one thing… six years.

Winter moved sharply through the city streets, pushing cold wind between buildings and along tram tracks. People walked quickly, shoulders raised against it, scarves pulled close, hands wrapped around takeaway coffees. 

Anu walked much more slowly, her attention moving from one thing to another, trying to orient herself to a world she had not seen for six years, and even then had not been at ease with.

The city moved with the same bustling rhythm she remembered, though some of the details had changed. Some shops had disappeared. New ones had appeared in their place. Different colours and fashions in shop windows.

A tram screeched around the corner, sparks briefly flashing overhead as it curved along the tracks. Anu looked up. The sky was flat grey, heavy with the possibility of rain. She shivered. The gentle, year-round, temperate climate of Enanika seemed very far away. She didn’t have enough layers on, and her coat was no match for the cold. Her hands were tightly stuck inside her pockets. 

Passing a clothing shop, she went inside to browse, but really to get warm.

“Freezing today,” the woman at the counter muttered. “And we’re only in the first month of winter.”

The last time Anu had walked these streets, she had come to the city to let Enlan know he must return for the three-day Sirius alignment. 

He didn’t return to Enanika. 

And after the alignment, Anu didn’t return to Earth…

Enanika Series

The Enanika Series is visionary fiction exploring consciousness, identity, contact, and the meeting point between worlds.

Set between present-day Earth and the peaceful future world of Enanika, the series follows beings who move between realities — navigating human life while carrying memories, abilities, and perceptions that reach far beyond it.

Through relationships, spiritual tension, love, forgetting, remembrance, and the deep complexity of incarnation, the Enanika Series explores what it means to live as both human and more-than-human.

At the centre of the story is Anu, a contact caller from Enanika sent to Earth during a time of growing instability and transformation. In the rural town of Milkwood, she reconnects with Enlan, another being from her world whose immersion in Earth life has drawn him far from his original awareness.

Blending metaphysical insight with grounded human experience, the Enanika Series explores not only other worlds, but the hidden layers of this one.

Enanika Series: Visionary Fiction
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Enanika: Visionary Fiction—The Marketplace

🌍✨ A new story begins…

It’s always an exciting moment to begin a new story.
Here is the start of my new fiction series, Enanika.
It carries the same mystical, otherworldly tone as the Waldmeer Series—yet it’s set in a completely different world. 🌿🕊️

In the opening chapter of Enanika, we meet Anu in her natural world — a peaceful, advanced planet where telepathy is normal, harmony is effortless, and daily life moves with an inner hum of presence.

Chapter 1: The Marketplace

Moving with untroubled ease through the open-air market, Anu’s short chestnut bob brushed just above her shoulders. Sunlight caught her blue eyes, clear as the surface of a calm mountain lake. 

Anu was thirty-three.

On Enanika, age does not carry the same weight as it does on Earth. Time is not something accumulated so much as something moved within. Even so, there is a specialness about thirty-three in both worlds. On Earth, it marks the settling of adulthood, when certain things — for good or bad — begin to solidify. On Enanika, it is also a threshold: a time when what had been practised, learned, and played with can now be lived, explored, and embodied in new, profound, and challenging ways. It is a gateway.

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