Published: Jan. 28, 2012
Words: 36,264 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781466102422

Short description

In the ruins of Post-World War I Europe, Jeffrey Allbright begins the search for his missing twin. His journey will take him from the battlefields of France, across the deserts of Morocco, to the realm of Archangel Morpheus, god of Dreams, on the borderlands between heaven and hell. A surreal quest into the dreamlands, where death, time, and sanity cannot stop one driven by hope and love.

Extended description

Jeffrey Allbright sells his Wisconsin family farm and leaves his fiancee behind to look for his brother, Jared, who was declared Missing in Action at the Battle of Cantigny during World War I. With only a handful of documents, a photograph, and a lead from a distant German cousin who fought on the other side of the war, he travels to France to begin his search.
After learning from the dead that his brother is not among them, Jeffrey travels to Morocco where he encounters conniving dragomen, the horrors of slavery, and a brewing anti-colonial revolution.
As Jeffrey becomes swept up in events both in the real world and in the world of dreams, the borders between sanity and insanity disappear. He travels to a place where angels and demons are not quite what they seem, dreams and waking experience co-mingle, time has no place, and danger lurks both without and within. The very powers of heaven and hell hedge up the way, testing the strength of his psyche, resolve, and love. He is helpe.. (Read more) Jeffrey Allbright sells his Wisconsin family farm and leaves his fiancee behind to look for his brother, Jared, who was declared Missing in Action at the Battle of Cantigny during World War I. With only a handful of documents, a photograph, and a lead from a distant German cousin who fought on the other side of the war, he travels to France to begin his search.
After learning from the dead that his brother is not among them, Jeffrey travels to Morocco where he encounters conniving dragomen, the horrors of slavery, and a brewing anti-colonial revolution.
As Jeffrey becomes swept up in events both in the real world and in the world of dreams, the borders between sanity and insanity disappear. He travels to a place where angels and demons are not quite what they seem, dreams and waking experience co-mingle, time has no place, and danger lurks both without and within. The very powers of heaven and hell hedge up the way, testing the strength of his psyche, resolve, and love. He is helped in his quest by Mahanjero, a mystic African guide, and Burroughs, a strange mortal living in the dreamlands. But can he trust Burroughs or Mahanjero as he slips in and out of the waking world and the uncharted regions of dream? More importantly, can he trust himself to discern between what is real and what is not? Only Archangel Morpheus holds the answers.

Forrest Aguirre's short fiction has been published in over fifty venues including Asimov's, Postscripts, Exquisite Corpse, and Gargoyle. Forrest's work has received several honorable mentions in various Year's Best anthologies and his fiction has been a finalist for the StorySouth Million Writers Award. He has won the World Fantasy Award and was a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award for co-editing the Leviathan 3 anthology.
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Tags

angels, adventure, fantasy, france, dreams, demons, brothers, africa, morocco, surreal, world war 1, quest, world war, surreal fantasy, burroughs, colonialism, dreams and reality

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Review by: donald armfield on March 02, 2012 :
An adventure to find his brother traveling all over. Taken to a prison, attached and the conclusion was not what I expected.

Forrest Aguirre makes readers feel like they are part of the journey. His imagination is your movie ticket in the palm of your hands. A Must Read!
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