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    Otherland
    Otherland
    Otherland
    Ebook153 pages1 hour

    Otherland

    By Dide

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    A girls life is changed by a chance encounter with a boy from another planet. Upon meeting, they feel an immediate attraction, leading them to kiss. That catapults the girl into the boys world. A foreign planet that is geographically similar to her own but full of strange new wonders that fill her with amazement at each discovery. And each breakthrough seems as though it will be the one that changes her life and brings her enlightenment.

    KIRKUS REVIEWS
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse UK
    Release dateMar 20, 2012
    ISBN9781467890250
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      Otherland - Dide

      Contents

      Chapter 1

      Strange Meeting

      Chapter 2

      Foreign Land

      Chapter 3

      Dreamed Trip

      Chapter 4

      On a Visit

      Chapter 5

      Unwound Yarn

      Chapter 6

      Those Fingers

      Chapter 7

      Pleasant Walking

      Chapter 8

      Awake while in Love

      Chapter 9

      Flying Device

      Chapter 10

      Fluctuating Clouds

      Chapter 11

      Wonderful Child

      Chapter 12

      Celebration

      Chapter 13

      Storm

      Chapter 14

      Flames of Joy

      Chapter 15

      Recognition

      Chapter 16

      Memories and Future

      Chapter 17

      The Sun’s shadow

      Chapter 18

      Waking Up

      Chapter 19

      Smart Folly

      Chapter 20

      Easily Done

      Chapter 21

      Without Words

      Chapter 22

      The Narrator

      Chapter 23

      Something Unknown

      Chapter 24

      Refreshing Memory

      Chapter 25

      Ready to Sail

      Chapter 26

      Old Dreams

      Chapter 27

      The Time Lost

      Chapter 28

      A Journey Together

      Chapter Epilogue

      Dedicated to my mum, who filled my childhood with endless tenderness!

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      Aims are there for you to stand up for them, to pursue them, to fight for them or to kneel humbly for them; to shout out loud or to keep quiet, to let tears stream down your face, tears of joy or sorrow! When one has an aim, you negotiate with life, because you are not satisfied with what life throws at you; aims want to give birth to their own dreams and let them roam this world. They have already started passionately caring deep down for those dreams.

      Then again, not all dreams make us equally happy. Only those that we conquer with love and they answer with love twice as strong which makes us truly happy.

      It’s a good idea to understand ourselves, to stop being bothered by what is small or big in other people’s eyes and to care more about what fills our souls and makes us truly alive.

      Chapter 1

      Strange Meeting

      Deep down in the depths of forgotten dreams, so far away and long ago, it seemed the memory came up again and began to shatter the illusion of her world. In her eyes there was a determination, perhaps mixed with some anger and bitterness. However, she believed that she would find a way to achieve these dreams. She decided to put them before her to see if they were possible, until they became her identity. This had to happen sooner or later, and running seemed to outrun the time to go after these dreams. So they became enemies, and this tortured her. She sought peace without resigning to fate, content with what she had.

      She was not able to see any of those things, but was only running in the alley.

      Meanwhile the sun thrust through the woods and toyed with the branches and leaves, so this captured her attention. And down in her mind appeared nothing, a reflected light from a simple game of sun and sky in the trees. Sometimes while embracing a goal, we meet someone who manages to leave something in us. We smile and then allow that it hardly fits into our plans. Instead we are left with something deep inside us. That was what happened to her that day.

      While running, she lost her direction in her awakened thoughts, turned into a distracted girl, and wasted her thoughts rather than going on her way. Just then a voice stopped her. A boy noticed that one of her shoes was untied, so he called out to her casually to be careful not to stumble. When she turned, she saw a boy who walking carelessly, looking peaceful and absentminded. This made him more attractive against the backdrop of the sun. She smiled while bending down to tie her shoelaces. Her smile was like a magnet to him, making him stop for a moment on his walk.

      Better collision than wandering! This he thought while his eyes were still focused on her smile that attracted all his attention. He felt happy in this moment watching this smiling girl busy with this little thing, just tying her shoelaces. He wanted to ask her something, but she forestalled him.

      Was it a determination in her eyes to start a conversation or was it just her impulsive courtesy that prompted her to ask him where he came from? It appeared very strange to her for a native to be wasting his time in a place more commonly used by people on sightseeing tours or other purposes.

      Her question did not surprise him. Rather he was glad, and said with relish that he wished first to kiss her and then he would answer her question. This was a raw joke for both, but they didn’t seem to have understood, instead they decided to laugh in their audacity without exactly knowing why they did so.

      She allowed herself to be kissed. And it wasn’t just a mere kiss, but the beginning of a journey to a new world which she’d dreamt about a long time ago, a lost world that was a part of her. It was a world which always belonged to him, but at the same time was hidden deeply in her. Thus began the journey which neither expected. It was travelling that centred on asking questions. It was difficult for her to understand immediately what was really happening to her or to where this meeting would take her. For him it was a known way he had always passed, arriving finally in the place where they met.

      At the time when she closed her eyes to be kissed, she saw herself on another planet. She couldn’t quite understand how she found herself in this new world.

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      Chapter 2

      Foreign Land

      Whether flying or crawling, she still did not wish to think deeply about the issue because she doubted if she could understand the truth. A different happiness paved the way for a great curiosity that kept her senses wide open. It was a strange land; all around her eyes appeared things that could only be described with one word: beauty.

      But the silence! She flinched. How strange it was; it had its own melody of sounds different from those she had known and heard on her planet. And the sounds throughout ensured, it could quite quickly drift pass pleasantly, unhindered. Strangeness or novelty? And the air, breathed so freely with ease. The air was not what she had felt before, but a gentle density of an unknown substance that stuck to every part of the body. This dense substance gradually encompassed her whole being but never restrained her free movement. Rather she was able to move much more freely and faster, like being assisted by someone who empowered her to perform, and did so with amusing grace and lightness. This air became lovelier, a friend without the desire to abandon her even for a second. Instead it helped her perform much better both inwardly and outwardly.

      And again, upon closing her eyes, she noticed it was not exactly dark. The darkness was brighter than the brightness of the light she had known on Earth. If this was darkness, then what was this light doing here? She pondered over this bewilderment for a moment and then opened her eyes to peer curiously into the light. But she was surprised to notice endless, gentle and pastel softness in the coloured grey that surrounded the place.

      In this grey light, black was just a shine that blinded her eyes, and she was not meant to resist its power, hence it was harmless. It appeared that this colour was attached somewhere around her, without being directly seen. Instead it was able to create colours and splendour in surrounding nature, which in turn made her become part

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