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THE FRACTAL HEART is a sci-fi romance with nine linked story lines — three about aliens: 🎲 The Great Game, ⭐️ The Soul Star, & 🔮 Cubic Pink — and six about humans: ✏️ The Collected Works of Humpty Dumpty, 💍 The Ring, 🍎 The Apple Merchant, 💚 The Three Graces, 🧚 Fairy Tales from Southern Alberta, & 🗽The Green Lady.
Characters - Glossary a-f/g-z - Maps - Storylines
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1. Priests ✏️ Times New Roman 🎲 The Aphrodisiac of Priests ‣The Borjès ‣Battered Cliffs 💍 Latin Quarter ‣All Roads Lead to Paris ‣Rivers 🍎 Babylon 🎲 Degrees of Darkness ‣Spies 💍 Pinpoints of Light 🍎 Apple Business 🎲 Naptha & Saphaltus ‣Forests of the Night 💍 London 🍎 Eastern Gods ‣Golden Calves
2. Fables of Light 🎲 The Water Damsel ‣Prime Rhythm ‣Caffè 🔮 Ascendency 🎲 Orb ‣ The Star to Every Wandering Bark 💍 The Actress ‣Equations 💚 Parma ✏️ Over My Head ✏️ A Great Fall 🍎 Holy Bin ‣Judgments 🎲 Interference 🎲 Years ‣Lactar8 ‣Z&Q ‣The Swarm ✏️ Achilles 🍎 Aziz 💚 Pietro ‣Claudia
3. Snakes & Ladders ✏️ King’s Horses 🎲 Ear-Muffs 💍 Nineveh 🍎 Astronomers 🎲 7 Veils 🍎 In the Beginning ‣Adam & the Snake 🎲 Hunger & Lust 💍 Que Sais-je? 🎲 The 7th Veil 🍎 The Journey West 💍 Priest & Pastor
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4. Infractions ⭐️ Hidden Star ‣Djàdao ‣Nuovaroma ‣Algoritmo ‣Damascus ‣Life 2.0 ‣6&7 ‣2 Priests 🧚 Beneath the Old Apple Tree ‣Natural Selection 🔮 Guests ‣Light ‣Human 🧚 Grim Brothers 💚 Infraction 101 ‣Clark Kent ‣The English Garden
5. Gatherings 💍 Enigma ‣Academic 🎲 White ✏️ Homework Blues ‣J. Alfred 🎲 Matterhorn ‣Kollarum ‣Professor ‣Lingua ‣Franca ‣Protectorate ‣Talfar ‣Sky ‣Book 💚 On the Rebound
6. Dolce Amore 🧚 Quest ‣Güsfreude ‣Seduction ‣And Carbunkle His Eyes ‣Mirror Mirror ‣Beneath the Sheets ⭐️ Antiny ‣Flight ‣Wizard 🎲 Tarry Dot ⭐️ Poetry in the Deep 🎲 Escape from Aatari Doom ‣The Best Laid Plans 🎲 The Blue Bubble ‣The Lady With the White Fangs ‣Spectra ‣In the Contabri Bar ‣Venus & the Fly ‣A Tale of Two Worlds ‣The Librarian’s Tale ‣On Meliflorium ‣Bar Songs ‣Spirals
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7. Far & Near ⭐️ The Eggs of Cosmic Chance ‣Fra Sole 💚 Firenze ✏️ My Own Personal Rheinmaiden ‣Constellations 🧚 Prester John ‣On Becoming Alien ‣Mothership ‣The Blue Dreamers ‣Black Diamond Arts ‣Merman ‣The Brave Little Tailor ‣Maria de Tondo ‣The Narrow Road to the Deep North ‣Across the Street
8. By Chance or Design 🎲 ‣Game ‣Chancemasters 🧚 Alicia ‣Alicia del Espejo ‣Spin the Bottle ‣Dreamer 🔮 Fractal Masters & Mystics ‣Stories They Told Themselves ‣At Sea ‣Still Waters ‣Virus ✏️ Great White ‣Hammerfest ‣Völva 🧚 Corridor ‣At the Pangolin Gardens ‣The Bright Hills of Yunnan ‣The Ancient Mariner ✏️ Back to Black ‣Lindisfarne ‣The Monkey King ‣1825
9. Girls Who ✏️ Girl 💚 Roma I ‣II 🧚 Claudine de Montréal ‣Yunnan Gold & the Madeleine 🗽 Jason ‣Medea ‣All the Tea in China ‣The Waitresses of Chengdu 💍 Probabilities ‣Lestatique ‣Madame Dupont 🗽Elkbalam ‣Molotova the Whip 🎲 Two Friends
10. In the General Direction of Doom 💍 All Shook Up 🗽The Political Climate ‣Fax Americana ‣Proust in the Morning ‣Twilight of the Idols ‣The Storm Troopers Return ‣The Luxorium ✏️ Drive Our Ships to New Lands ‣As Loki Steers Us ‣Transcanada: A Dream of Combustion 🔮 Alien Extraction ‣Total Collapse ✏️ Metaphor 💚 Di Roma ‣The Anunnaki
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11. Earth 2.7 💚 In the Field of Flowers ‣The Seventh House ✏️ Screen Time ‣Dear Matthew ‣The French Maid 💍 Les Mouches ‣At First Sight ‣First Contact ‣ The Soul Star ‣La Vie en Orange 🔮 In the New Beginning ‣En Route to the Old Café 🧚 The Ties That Bind ‣The Bind That Flies ‣The Monster in the Manor🗽Rablanar & the OC ‣At the Battery ✏️ Au Bord de la Seine ‣The Baulomorphs Get It On 🔮 Rule 2.7 ⭐️ Crazy Diamond 🎲 In the Ephemera Café ‣The Golden Hill — In Progress
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Contents - Characters - Glossary: A-F∙G-Z - Maps - Storylines