And then of course there’s the characters. \u00a0While Imani and Lara are normal enough in their presentation, it’s Derik who steals the show. Like Ichabod Crane in Fox’s Sleepy Hollow, Derik is a man out of time\u2014or at the very least, out of place. \u00a0He speaks with eloquence unbefitting of the people we normally surround ourselves with, and it’s at time’s disjointed, but more often than not, strangely charming.<\/p>\n
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Once planted, it lives everywhere… <\/em> Sacrilege. <\/em><\/p>\n Tying the wonder to his hip in a sack, he finds himself alone on Earth in the gray, declining city of Clarksburg. Without friends, tools, weapons, and even stripped of the ability to read, he must escape pursuit and find refuge for his burden. A burden that stubbornly refuses every attempt to find it a new home. <\/em> Hiller has the distinction of being a little bit of everything. \u00a0Radio host, painter, playwright… he’s done it all. \u00a0A Halo of Mushrooms<\/em> is his latest venture into entertainment, and he shows that he excels at fiction as well. \u00a0If you’re interested in this book, you can purchase it at Amazon<\/a> today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Even with indie authors on the rise, it’s sometimes difficult to see anything that goes against the grain. \u00a0There are tried and true stereotypes of the fantasy genre that you just see time and time again. \u00a0Though self-publishing has made it worth the risk for some to try something new, it’s still a very rare […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[463,462],"tags":[1125,1128,872,1126,1127,379,613,657,531],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/A-Halo-of-Mushrooms-1.png","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1UVey-LL","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2961"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2961"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2966,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2961\/revisions\/2966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nIn a place of origins, the first Fairie Ring withers. Worlds die. Wonder fades. As its last ripple reaches out, fell creatures barricade up the few remaining Bald Mushrooms and wars are fought for the right to possess what precious little remains\u2026. Until Derik, a healer, creeps through lines of armies, thorns, and traps to steal one. <\/em><\/p>\n
\nShadows of war are descending and all Derik has to fend it off is a baker, a chemist, a cerulean sweet, and a withered hope. <\/em>
\nThe chase is on….from world to world and from the Great Lakes to Malawi. <\/em><\/p>\n