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    Matriarch, Part 1: The Symbiot-Series, #7
    Matriarch, Part 1: The Symbiot-Series, #7
    Matriarch, Part 1: The Symbiot-Series, #7
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    Matriarch, Part 1: The Symbiot-Series, #7

    By Michel Weatherall

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    The 2nd novelette of The Refuse Chronicles.​

    Matriarch is the first of 3 novelettes with Saoirse on the desolate lonely shore of Northern Newfoundland. 

    A mysterious corpse on the desolate cold beaches of Northern Newfoundland.

    Something stirs in the abandoned forgotten towns.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMichel Weatherall
    Release dateFeb 1, 2017
    ISBN9781988253114
    Matriarch, Part 1: The Symbiot-Series, #7
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    Michel Weatherall

    Michel Weatherall is a native of Ottawa, has lived in Europe and Germany and travelled extensively. With over 30 years in the print/publishing industry, self-publishing was a natural step to his company, Broken Keys Publishing. He has published 6 novels and 2 collections of poetry. Other work include Sun & Moon, Purgation, This Burden I Bear, Eleven's Silent Promise, Rupture and the essays The Doctrine of Fear and Ebook Revolution? all appearing in Ariel Chart's online journey as well as a theological essay (“The Voice of Sophia”) in American theologian Thomas Jay Oord's "The Uncontrolling Love of God: An Open and Relational Account of Providence" (2015) Weatherall's current books in print are, The Symbiot 30th Anniversary, The Nadia Edition,  Necropolis,  The Refuse Chronicles,  Symphonies of Horror: Inspirational Tales by H.P. Lovecraft: The Symbiot Appendum, Ngaro's Sojourney,  A Dark Corner of My Soul (poetry), Sun & Moon (poetry), His publishing company, Broken Keys Publishing has 2 anthologies: Thin Places: The Ottawan Anthology, & Love & Catastrophē Poetrē. Honours and Awards include Winner of the 2020 - 2021 Faces of Ottawa Awards for Best Author Finalist of the 2022 Faces of Ottawa Awards for Best Author Winner of the 2020-2022 Faces of Ottawa Awards for Best Publisher 2021Best of the Net Award Nominee (for Poetry: Purgation) 2020-21 Parliamentary Poet Laureate Nominee 2020 Best of the Net Award Nominee (Poetry: This Burden I Bear) 2019 Pushcart Prize Nominee (for Poetry) 2019 FEBE Award Nominee for Creative Arts Finalist for the Faces of Ottawa Award for Best Author 2019  2019 CPACT Awards Nominee for Entertainment Excellence (Arts) 2019 CPACT Awards Nominee for Small Business Excellence (Broken Keys Publishing) Finalist for the Faces of Ottawa Award for Best Author 2018

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      Matriarch, Part 1 - Michel Weatherall

      ...And Tears Flowed in Oceans

      Y’ha-Nthlei,

      East of Devil’s Reef

      1928

      We had waited centuries for this day in breathless anticipation. It should have been a glorious day, an unprecedented day, a day we would never forget... as we never would.

      Our species’ great mother was to grace our magnificent city with her presence. Mother-Hydra, the progenitor of our species. It was a sacred ritual. The worship, the adoration of our Goddess!

      Mother-Hydra: the first woman. The first mother. The oldest of our species. Ancient beyond measure, Her genesis behind prehistory. Consort to Father Dagon.

      As the Ocean birthed all life, Mother-Hydra birthed our species, the Deep-Ones. The rightful descendants of a Pre-fall Adam and Eve, before Death entered their DNA. The rightful heirs to this World!

      Gloriously beautiful, the epitome of feminine fertility, Mother-Hydra was a giant, dwarfing all other Deep-Ones. Even among the oldest, even surrounded by the purest bloods, the largest of the Ancient Matriarch-Behemoths were tiny as they crowded around Her.

      We were ecstatic in the awe of her presence. Intoxicated by Her Grandeur. Maybe that was why nobody noticed.

      The surface-dwellers, those degenerate apes, dropped depth-charges. Nobody noticed until it was too late.

      The initial concussion blasts stunned the monstrous amphibious Ancient Matriarchs, their collective bodies trapping Mother-Hydra, encasing Her in a living tomb. There would be no escape for our Goddess. Her fate was sealed as further depth-charges fell upon our Glorious submarine city of Y’ha-Nthlei.

      The surface-dwellers didn’t know. How could they? Degenerate land-dwelling mutants, their very genes permanently tainted by Death. It was the most unfortunate coincidence of events, but the most disastrous for my people.

      Few of us escaped. Even fewer survived. But of those of us that did, tears flowed in oceans.

      A new Mother-Hydra will arise. The oldest and most powerful of the Matriarchs will ascend to take Her place. Our Father’s most favourite will receive the Kiss of Dagon.

      We live in an ocean

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