Leah D

Imagine a world where most of the populace has at least some telepathic ability: the ability to communicate with others without speech, even across distance; the ability to read other's thoughts and screen their own; the ability to acquire knowledge from dreams and visions; the ability to share the content and abilities of their minds without recourse to written or vocal communication. What happens to social, religious, and political development in such a world? What happens to individuals of intelligence and talent, especially psychic talent? Some answers appear in the stories I'm pursuing.

Sometimes a character of mine writes poetry, and I have access to that too.

Time to start over, apparently. Everything posted e'er now has been dumped, by Admin error, so all I'll have here for awhile will be my new novel, The Brothers Karoli (thanks, Bill!) -- it's about the primary villain in my first two books, his origins, his development into the mustache-twirler we know and love. (He's actually clean-shaven, by the way.) I hope to make Lord Valmur more human through this story, but he'll never be a sympathetic character -- for that I have his dispossessed older half-brother, Tuorvonen.

I may repost Timu's Sonnet too, since it's been received favorably before.

Ah, Charlie -- it must be karma, or kismet, or something else that starts with a "k".