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“The Dream” is a micro-movie inspired by the short story “The Dream” written by Rudolph Schneider over a hundred years ago. It carries a very powerful message about our capacity to choose Duality as a loving embrace, or duality as conflict and war. It is a choice each of us must individually make.

A voice from the Abyss offers Elara a destiny she never asked for — and a truth she cannot unhear.

This short movie is inspired from the short story “Ruth” by Jakob Wassermann that was published over 100 years ago. It is still meaningful in todays world. It is a story about hope, the possibility of redemption and failure.

Chapter 1, in the shadows of Gaia’s fringe, Elara lives a quiet life – until something ancient begins to speak through her dreams.

Der Orchideengarten Vol 2, No. 7 contains the following stories: The Hair of Lady Fitzgerald by Wolf Durian; The Experiment of One’s Own Soul by J. Winckelmann; Sparks by Vladimir Aratov. Translation by Joe E Bandel. Layout by John Hirschhorn-Smith. Original art throughout. This is the first time these stories have been translated into the English language.

Der Orchideengarten Vol 2 No. 6 includes the stories: The Will to Death by Kurt Moreck and The Byzantine Coin by Karl Hans Strobl. Original art. Translated into English by Joe E Bandel. Layout by John Hirschhorn-Smith.

Der Orchideengarten Vol 2, No. 5 contains the following stories translated for the first time into English. Discovery by Rudolf Schneider; The Three Rings by Margot Isbert; Chorus of the Dead by Conrad Ferdinand Meyer; Secret Decapitation by Johan Peter Hebel; Shadows by M. Pokorny. Translations by Joe E Bandel and layout by John Hirschhorn-Smith. It contains the original artwork.

Chapter 1: The Crypt’s Shadows

This is the first book in the Series Gaia’s Pulse: The OAK Ascendancy. Kael and Elara begin their journey to find the Proto-Core and heal Gaia’s fractured pulse.  They meet Valentine and others on their journey.

Author’s Note: Chapter 1’s Kael/Elara unity mirrors Gaia’s ascension, uniting opposites in the frequency war to heal her fractured pulse. Their love against the shade’s chaos reflects the loving embrace of duality, a spark for Gaia’s rebirth. It is going to be posted on Royalroad.com with one chapter posted daily.

For above the door—the only escape from the depths—towered, house-high, the corpses of dead machines, the mass’s terrible playthings when madness broke over Metropolis. Train after train, with empty, thundering cars, all lights blazing, full-powered, had rolled over the tracks, whipped by the mass’s roars, crashing, tangling, piling high, burning, half-melting, still smoldering, a lump of destruction. And a single lamp, unscathed, cast its sharp, acrid beam from the last machine’s steel breast over the chaos.
But Maria knew none of this. She didn’t need to. It was enough that the door, her and the children’s sole savior, remained merciless, unyielding, that at last, with bleeding hands and shoulders, tortured head, and feet numb, she had to yield to the incomprehensible, murderous force.

New uncensored translation by Joe E Bandel. Available as paperback and as epub.