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A lost twin sister nobody will talk about; a surreal garden with an unwanted dependent; platonic friendship but only for a season; a girl out of water taken under a strict wing; a Nairobi success forced into a coastal songstress; a wounded heart seeking paternal vengeance; will poetry keep grandma here just a bit longer?; an old dented pot and an unlikely shield; an abandoned god grappling with the indifference of humanity.
Shortlisted from the Wanderer's Path 2026 Short Story Competition. Nine short stories on non-romantic love.
TRIAD OF NIN by Franz Owano
Sidus, an undiscovered planet strewn within the Milky Way is the capitol of the Imperium. Inhabited predominantly by the Nin, an alien race that lords over its vassal dominions with an iron-fist. Over millennia the seeds of Imperialism planted blossom in tragic ways. A terrible secret places billion of its subjects & the celestial bodies they call home in harm’s way. Knowledge of which unrolls the sorrowful panorama of Excelsis Deo’s already lost innocence. Plaguing the decorated Nin warrior with disillusion & the ruptures of a starved soul. Burdened by the hopes, dreams & fears of not only his race but a myriad of species; will he live to the pulse beat of his time or shun being a political pawn in a far-reaching power struggle?
This novel is a meditation on mortality. An exposition of a planet’s demise and a crumbling empire along with it. Will the Nin grapple for survival in expedient resolve or ambivalently resign to a pre-ordained fate?
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MYSTERY MONKEYS by George Gathiani
It took two hundred thousand years and the countless deaths of our ancestors for us to live. From their sacrifices we gained existence, space, power, and love.
What should we do with the gifts we have received?
We should conscious.
Mystery Monkeys - Organic, is about how humans use their consciousness to survive.
Or, more accurately, their consciousing.
MAGNUS SINGULA by Franz Owano
Magnus Singula is a novel of betrayal, enlightenment & discovery set in an ant colony beneath post-colonial African soil. The protagonist, a headstrong drone struggles to reconcile his individuality within the eusocial nest. Persecuted for harboring impulses deemed to be wicked and destructive to communal cohesion. By a chance encounter; a curious worker ant finds herself pulled by the tumultuous current of the rebellious drone’s logic. Can he teach her the true meaning of freedom?
This literary work is a trenchant reflection on the choices we make & those society imposes on us. A compelling tale of ambition, power, war, secrecy; of disaster and love.
HALFWAY TO DAMASCUS
Warriors. Wilderness. Blood and confusion. A son in a land of violence, a father who could
not understand why. When did you become your own person? How far did you have to
travel to find what was always inside? If you know what it is like to overcome a desolate
land, and attempt to make a life, journey with Franz Owano to Ol Moran and watch science,
compassion and writing open your eyes.
THE TRIALS OF CHEPONDOR by Franz Owano
In the arid hinterland of Olmoran town Chepondor; an illiterate Pokot woman trudges
through life as a second wife enduring loss, struggle and societal injustice meted on women
in her patriarchal nomadic community.
Cherot, her younger daughter is a vibrant, ambitious, intelligent girl. A visionary determined
to forge her own path and not relive her mother's past.
Kakut is Chepondor's husband and Cherot's father. An archetypal Pokot man. Set in his ways.
Reverent to tradition and culture. Resistant to change. Hell-bent on ensuring his wives and
daughter bend to the will of the tribe.
Will Kakut embrace his daughter's great expectations or lay them to rest as delusions deigned
to threaten the nomadic way of life? What is to become of Chepondor, trapped between two
comets on an inevitable collision course with destiny?
BOY CHILD by Franz Owano
This novel paints a vivid portrait of three men on the famished road that is self discovery.
Boi, a light hearted libertine finds himself fleeing from the memory of a man he barely knew. Battling apparitions of the past with seeming futility.
Ajenda, an ambitiously ruthless man possessed by a yearning to escape his poverty stricken past; makes concessions. Hankering for worldly wealth he runs the risk of damning his soul.Pitching him headlong into a hedonistic pursuit of the idyllic Kenyan dream.
Fred, enraptured by freedom and disdainful of romantic love questions the validity of society's philosophy of life. Demonstrating a mercantile spirit and indomitable will in the face of conformity's influence.
The trio's paths intertwine in an unlikely odyssey. One in which a central thought persists." Isn't the son nothing more than an extension of the father?"
THE FALL OF KINGS by Franz Owano
Ancient Egypt, 1353 BC
Amenhotep III is dead. An end to a long and definitive reign. His son Amenhotep IV, a privileged & self-absorbed prince ascends the vacant throne. Torn between honoring the precedents of the past and forging a novel path. All while wrestling to temper the ambitions of his beguiling yet sly Queen Consort; in a hostile conspiratory court. Will his radical political and religious reforms kindle progress or fan the flames of destruction?
A tale of terrible beauty in which two desperate and friendless boys, lurking in the fringes of nobility turn to each other to find the courage to aspire, dream and summon the most potent force of all: The Will to Power.
This prequel to The Heart of a Prince weaves a saga of bitter conflict, smoldering desires and undying love. Kings will fall and conversely rise in a passionate struggle for a revered land.