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    Uncharted Passage: Toward New Realms
    Uncharted Passage: Toward New Realms
    Uncharted Passage: Toward New Realms
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    Uncharted Passage: Toward New Realms

    By Bekka King

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    Coming of age, the supernatural, Irish fantasy, and other personal meanderings

    Crossing continents, she finds herself crossing states of being. This college student transcends knowledge limits that she seeks to understand.

    Locations that appear in the story: Fairhaven College, Bellingham (Washington, USA), University of B.C. (UBC), Vancouver, County Wicklow (Ireland), County Sligo (Ireland), Maynooth University (Ireland), Dublin. The Irish musician Hozier makes an appearance in the book, as does German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

    Memoirist Bekka King writes “creative fiction” novellas spun off from her real-life memoir (“Tales of a Tone-Deaf Walrus”). Each novella is a semi-biographic reflection on topics of her choice, allowing her to flirt with an assortment of life fantasies. This is the first in a series of spin-off novellas.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherActive Change Press
    Release dateNov 22, 2015
    ISBN9780989743075
    Uncharted Passage: Toward New Realms
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    Bekka King

    Memoirist Bekka King writes memoirs and “creative fiction” novellas spun off from her real-life memoir (“Tales of a Tone-Deaf Walrus”). Each novella is a semi-biographic reflection on topics of her choice, allowing her to flirt with an assortment of life fantasies.

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      Uncharted Passage - Bekka King

      copyright © 2015 by Active Change Press

      All rights reserved (Active Change Press). The use of any part of this publication reproduced, transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, or stored in a retrieval system – without prior written authorization of the publisher – is forbidden as an infringement of copyright law. This book is sold in both print and electronic format; in cases of purchased electronic copies, redistribution (copy forwarding, etc.) – beyond incidental copies to personal acquaintances by the immediate purchaser – is likewise prohibited. Excepted are brief quotations in critical articles or reviews. Published in the United States by Active Change Press.

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      Jacket photograph: The photo on the front cover is of Fairhaven College in Bellingham, Washington, USA.

      Cataloging-Publication Data:

      King, Bekka

      Uncharted Passage: Toward New Realms

      ISBN: 978-0-9897430-7-5

      1. Memoir 2. Supernatural 3. Fantasy 4. Coming of age 5. Ireland

      2015

      Electronic version.

      First Edition

      AKNOWLEDGMENTS

      Thank you to the following individuals and groups for their assistance toward the completion of this book.

      Numerous librarians, researchers, and academics have been helpful in a variety of circumstances. Thank you to the librarians of the King County Library System of greater Seattle who persisted in helping track down various tidbits of arcane and archaic information and who continued to be friendly as I put in a never-ending number of interlibrary loan requests for rare and/or out of print reference material. A number of librarians, academics, and reference staff throughout the U.S. and Ireland likewise assisted in doing searches for difficult-to-find bits of information – including several county genealogy centres and James Shepherd who is the Director of Preservation and Facilities and the Washington National Cathedral. Thank you to a former colleague in London (who would probably prefer to remain nameless) for the reminder of the archaic ways in which certain types of information searches can require circuitous search routes.

      To the neighbors, relatives, and friends who listened as I worked out ideas for this story, I thank you. Thanks go out especially to those who read through drafts at various stages of development and provided feedback. They collectively helped me see that this is largely chick lit. Particular thanks to Tony Jeter, who took an interest in the tale simply because a friend was writing it. Tony, a lover of fantasy and science fiction, regularly took the time to expound on his favorite fantasy and science fiction authors.

      Chapter One

      Malene had been reminded during a Science and Our Place on the Planet class at Fairhaven College – in year two of her bachelor’s degree - that white is actually a composite of all the other colors that exist within the spectrum of visible light. Very literally, white is a dirty mess of all other colors being simultaneously reflected as one collective color rather than the clean color she tried to keep looking so nice on her new color-of-cotton jeans. In terms of physics, all light is an electromagnetic wave. This wave frequency that creates all colors of light (visible and non-visible) are of a higher frequency than radio waves and microwaves. X-rays and gamma rays are of yet a higher frequency. All such waves, more fundamentally, are energy.

      She reflected on this scientific understanding of white now – while perched knees-to-chest outside of main campus's bricked Performing Arts Center overlooking the bay below. Hues of orange, red, and blue splashed across the late afternoon sky. White – thought by many social and religious groups to represent cleanliness and purity – had been worn by the innocently angelic child (the central character) in the PAC performance she’d just watched for an Overview of World Dance class.

      Wind steadily blew up from the bay below. It came at more of a constant pace off the bay than when it had gusted through the still-damp winter trees during a mid-day walk across campus. She wished for the slight scent of poplar that drifts upward onto this western edge of campus from late spring to late fall. It would soon be time to head off campus to other, more mundane responsibilities. Sigh…. Her small frame shifted visibly as she thought forward to the rest of her day. Fairhaven College had indeed proven to be a fair haven from unpleasant winds that had so recently blown through life.

      ~

      ….Malene had picked Fairhaven, in part, because it was located locally within her hometown’s university in Washington State. Equally – or even more importantly – Fairhaven allows undergrads to take personal responsibility in directing the course of their studies. After completing basic undergraduate prerequisites, students have the option of designing their own major for their final two years of study – known colloquially here as a concentration. Much like what some graduate and post-graduate students do at a number of campuses around the world. This worked for Malene. As a bright student, academics had always been the glue that held her together even when life got difficult. A personal haven where she could succeed. She dreaded to think of a time when academics might no longer be part of her adult life. Even the people she knew off campus saw her as a brainy bookworm. The intelligent scholar determined to attend college and then make something of her life as a professional of some kind. For now, Malene could take an adult step in academia by pulling together several disparate parts of life into her concentration…. While taking several arts, literature, and science courses during her first two years at Fairhaven, she pulled together a thread she saw weaving through these courses and settled boldly on a self-designed concentration entitled What Can the Historical Unfolding of Arts and Sciences Tell Us about the Future of Our Species?

      Later that week, she sought to further explore this interplay between physics and human perception with two instructors. Her concentration advisor was currently away and it was a crucial time during her final year that would qualify her for graduation. She wanted to get into graduate school to continue what she had started at Fairhaven. Since Fairhaven didn’t offer any graduate programs, she would have to go elsewhere. As someone who had always lived rather diagonally adjacent to North America’s 49th parallel, she set her sights northward to the University of B.C.’s interdisciplinary graduate program located 50 miles away in Vancouver. A school not far from to her small hometown that is, in many ways, insulated from the rest of the world – a place of its own within a larger world. UBC’s program would allow her to tailor her studies to her own interests - paralleling her self-directed undergraduate work quite nicely. However, getting into UBC’s graduate program could only be achieved by proving

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