by Seth Mullins
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BLURB:
Following
the rigors of their self-made tour of the West, the members of the
groundbreaking and volatile band Edge of the Known - "hands down, craziest
band on Earth" - have an unprecedented chance to finally expose their
music to the world. Unfortunately, singer/guitarist Brandon Chane, founder
member and erratic genius of the group, is weathering a spiraling trip through
an abyss of heartbreak and despair.
His
personal pain threatens to derail his band's progress even as it fuels some of
its most incendiary songs. To further complicate matters, his mentor, Saul
Mason, is weathering his personal crisis and no longer seems to be the
all-knowing spiritual savant that Brandon first perceived him to be.
The road
ahead looks bleak; and once more, he turns to the one thing that has sustained
him throughout the course of his wounded, conflicted and inspired life: His
Muse.
"We'd
all thrown our fates to the wind, trusting in the unknown - in the Unseen, as
our EP so proudly proclaimed - and that leap had thus far landed us in a place
where we couldn't even grope our way forward in the dark anymore."
Discovering
his voice was only the first step of the journey. Now he must somehow learn to
trust the depths from which it comes, and the unknown horizons that it may
sweep him away to, even as every part of his personal world seems to be falling
apart.
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EXCERPT
Those
of you who’ve experienced it won’t need me to describe the keen joys of makeup
sex. When heart and desire get chugging at full throttle together, all while
you’re moving in harmony with one another, it’s a sensation that can whisk you
clear off the face of whatever world you’d previously been rooted to.
Janie
wasted no time at all. Her mouth found mine before I’d even made it through the
doorway. I guess we both figured there’d be time enough to talk and play
catchup later. Her eyes were full of promises and apologies. I imagine mine
were too. But we both knew that we were forgiven anyway, come what may.
Love
scares us all because of its ferocious power. Maybe Janie had run in response
to both of our fears, me just being silently complicit and therefore appearing
like the victim of the whole thing. Saul always insisted that it takes two. If
there are no accidents then this means that, in the wider scheme of things,
there really are no victims.
“Does
it just feel like we travel someplace else when we’re together like this,” she
whispered, into the pristine silence of pre-dawn, “or do we really go?”
I
smiled. It was a pure lover’s moment, you know? Only she would ever have asked
me a question like that, and only I could have ever known what she meant.
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AUTHOR Bio and
Links:
Seth
Mullins first conceived of his dream to write novels in his early teens, and
this one desire has stayed with him throughout all the other myriad twists and
turns of life. His inspirations include methods of inner exploration such as
dream-work and shamanism and his experiences as a songwriter and performing
musician. He studied creative writing at Santa Fe Community College in New
Mexico and Lane Community College in Oregon.
Seth
has lived in Connecticut, New Mexico, Oregon and (currently) Vermont.
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