Jackson Barr Stories

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Welcome to the Sleeping Gods Universe

A new fictional series coming to Promptly Written — Update: I’ve been working through some edits over the past week and there have been some BIG changes. New backstory, new characters and new ideas that build toward Act 2: The Other Side. Happy Reading! Hello! …

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·Apr 18

The Last Children of the Sea

Let Sleeping Gods Lie, Act 2: The Other Side, Conclusion part 2, Epilogue — Continued from The Name of the Sky Catch up on all the stories from Act1: An Unusual Brain here. Abraham woke to the sound of lapping waves and the smell of salt. He lay in shallow water on a bed of impossible flowers. …

Fiction

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·Apr 16

The Name of the Sky

Let Sleeping Gods Lie, Act 2: The Other Side, Conclusion part 1. — Continued from The Waihatu. Catch up on all the stories from Act1: An Unusual Brain here. Foreword Well, here we are at the conclusion of Act 2. Change. That is what Act 2 has been about. Little is left of who Kwesi once was before he was tricked and caught by…

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·Apr 11

The Waihatu

Let Sleeping Gods Lie, Act 2: The Other Side #13 — Continued from A Bloody Mess of Broken Legs and Regret. Catch up on all the stories from Act1: An Unusual Brain here. Day forty-seven: I have identified three new plants while walking with the Waihatu — the forest folk. The deadly rose. The tree orchid. And the black fig. The…

Fiction

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·Apr 10

A Bloody Mess of Broken Legs and Regret

Let Sleeping Gods Lie, Act 2: The Other Side #12 — Continued from The Wind in His Veins. Catch up on all the stories from Act1: An Unusual Brain here. Aidan sat with his new-old dad back at the huge tree and tried to get all his questions out without asking them all at the same time. “Where’s blue?” “He’s here…

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·Mar 31

The Wind in his Veins

Let Sleeping Gods Lie, Act 2: The Other Side #11 — Continued from Kwesi and the Quiet Dark. Catch up on all the stories from Act1: An Unusual Brain here. Foreword I love this part of the story. A family that has been separated begins to find its way back together. To understand this story, you should know it refers to characters…

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·Mar 23

Kwesi and the Quiet Dark

Let Sleeping Gods Lie, Act 2: The Other Side #10 — Continued from A Maelstrom of Blind Insanity. Catch up on all the stories from Act1: An Unusual Brain here. Then were written the seven words of destruction. They clung to me, a fiery embrace; oh pain so sweet — my lips were sealed, my will released. Maahes looked out over…

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·Mar 4

A Maelstrom of Blind Insanity

Let Sleeping Gods Lie, Act 2: The Other Side #9 — Continued from The Nightmare Boy. Catch up on all the stories from Act1: An Unusual Brain here. Hysterical laughter echoed from above. Abraham looked in the jar, the tiny boy was smiling up at him. ‘I don’t understand.’ Abe looked at Karut — who for the first time since Abraham…

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·Mar 3

My latest mistake: The nightmare boy

Check out Sleeping Gods Act2 #8 in New Writers Welcome — I published it there by accident! Let’s be honest. I’m writing this article as a kind of penance for a publishing mishap. I was so excited to finish and share the climax of my Sleeping Gods series here on…

Fiction

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·Mar 1

The Nightmare Boy

Let Sleeping Gods Lie, Act 2: The Other Side #8 — Continued from The Weight of His Dreams. Catch up on all the stories from Act1: An Unusual Brain here. ‘Abraham, where are you going?’ Abraham was not in a conversational state of mind. He was running prey pulled along at the pace of his racing heart. Karuthkahn waited with the…

Fiction

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