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Hello, Jesse! How are you? Haven’t heard from you in a while. Hope you’re in good health and doing good🌻✨

"Meltdown Ophilion" is a blend of a few genres and contains a rather wide range of events and ideas: from knife fights, to psychosis, to alien politics, to transcendent beings, to high-tech transport battles, to esoteric spirituality, to dystopian reality to love and family. I’ve set it in stages as major reveals or events take place on a world not unlike ours, into which the Merenthaal (human and non-human) enter.



“There is beauty in the galaxy, and there is horror. There are forces of good and of evil. And there is balance. But balance must be… maintained. -- Manual of the Merenthaal, preface

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Nice book

This quote is from Book 1, chapter 21 - REALITY II


Jenna, of the Regala, (17 year old student) quotes Aphias (Elder of the Regala, philosopher, teacher) -- Jenna finds herself in a tight spot on multiple levels.



----- After a few minutes she decided to review a text from Wisdom of the Wastelands which she had committed to memory.


"We know little of all there is to know. Let us be content in this – we will be all the more eager to explore and discover.


Let us rejoice in every discovery – no matter how small – it is a significant thread in the great tapestry.


Let us love and be loved – for love, in all of its forms, is the vital element of life.


Let us give more than we take lest we succumb to the powers of greed and destroy what happiness we have.


Let us meet each day with respect and with joy and with wonder; let us treat this day as a splendid gift, which it is.


Let us live so that we are always ready to die with honor; then, let us take our Journey to the Stars.”


These principles that Jenna had always taken as truths were being put to the test. She found herself wondering how relevant Aphias’ Wisdom of the Wastelands was in the com zones. -----

I'm going to start posting quotes from both books. These are ideas and concepts that stood out to me as I did the final edit.
The first quote is from Book 2, chapter 14




----- The teenagers felt the reality of the situation dawn on them in waves. They felt the peculiar vitality of their altered bodies and this allayed some of their apprehension, but the danger felt no less real. Becoming used to active combat takes time; one’s mind must learn, in stages, what it means to face enemies who seek your death, and what it means to deliver death. -----

Books One and Two

The adventure continues... I'm publishing freshly edited chapters for "Meltdown Ophilion - Book Two". (13 chapters so far)




I'll publish a few more from the material that I have already written - then I'll get back to writing new material and conclude "Book Two".




I already have a concept for “Book Three”… but, more about that later.

Breakthrough! I have finished my first full length story! Book One of "Meltdown Ophilion" is complete.



This story is a blend of a few genres and contains a rather wide range of events and ideas: from knife fights, to psychosis, to alien politics, to transcendent beings, to high-tech transport battles, to esoteric spirituality, to dystopian reality. I’ve set it in four stages as major reveals or events take place on a world not unlike ours, which Terrans enter.

I have already written the next 20 chapters of Book Two. I'll start posting those as I edit them. Book Two is the meltdown phase - and what follows it.

-- J.M.

Dear readers, I'm finalizing the first book of "Meltdown Ophilion" (stages one - four) - I have about ten more chapters to publish. For book two, I have 25 chapters written; I'll edit those then write the concluding chapters.

When I originally wrote this story it was shorter. New characters have presented themselves - new events have occurred - and have complicated the narrative. I tried to shrug off some of these characters and events in hopes of concluding the story sooner, but they were persistent. I have since come to love these elements. Friends, and even enemies, tend to grow on you. 

Writing this story has helped me to discover things about myself, the world and reality itself, that I don't think I would have otherwise.

J.M.