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Author<\/h2>\nE Kerrigan<\/p>\n
A computer analyst by day and a hobby writer by night.<\/p>\n
I have been writing since I was about six years old. Back then I wrote songs and short stories about school kids that I imagined, at the time, were funny. In my early teen years I started to branch in to \u201chorror\u201d novels (which I imagined, at the time, were scary). When I was about fifteen I read The Lord of the Rings trilogy, the complete Ender series (Orson Scott Card), and the complete Rama series (Arthur C. Clarke) all in one summer, and from then on my passion has been creating fantasy and science fiction stories.<\/p>\n
My current series, The World of Jinn, is the first story I have decided to publish. I created most of it in my early twenties. I picked it up again last year after having worked many years hard at school (too many tech books to read and no time for anything fun!). I am excited to finally have these stories released. I have no expectation for people to like them as much as I do, but I do hope they bring at the least some entertainment value. I tend to only write things that I hope would generate a conversation, and what better way to do that in a \u2018sneaky\u2019 fashion other than fantasy?<\/p>\n
A war was fought in the Jinn world between the Shaitans and the Amin. The Shaitans won, leaving the evil King Iblis as primary ruler over the five Jinn kingdoms. Years later in the human realm, five humans (two detectives, a lawyer, a doctor and a teacher) are almost killed by a group of ghouls. However they are unexpectedly saved by two angels. The angels bring these five humans to the Jinn world and are taken to a hidden mountain city. Here they are told by the Mountain Queen that they are in fact Jinn, and that they must shed their human bodies and become Jinn again. After this they can lead the Amin to victory, and destroy Iblis and his army of ghouls once and for all. To become Jinn again, they must retrieve Ambrosia plants hidden throughout the world, and battle more ghouls along the way. However violence does not come without a price, and many sacrifices will be made. Inevitably, it will not be their external enemies that are their greatest danger, but instead a traitor from within.<\/p>\n
The World of Jinn trilogy will explore the best and worst of humankind. This first addition certainly focuses on the worst of humankind, and also the guilt that comes with making certain decisions. The first book introduces us to the main characters and explores the past Jinn lives of three of the five main characters. It has many action-driven chapters and sets up the telling of the true core of the story, which appears in parts II and III. It is important to remember that this trilogy is one story and not three. The separation of its parts was carefully crafted and intentional for various purposes that will hopefully speak for themselves once the complete story has been told. The trilogy\u2019s aim is to challenge our ideas of love, morality, forgiveness and faith. It was inspired by various mentionings of the ‘Jinn’ in the Qur’an and Arabian folklore. Although centered on creatures mentioned in Islam, this book examines many paths of faith and argues that regardless of where our beliefs originate, it is our actions that define us.<\/p>\n
Although Jibril told them that they were going to travel through a portal, Aaliyah did not see a star filled path, or a bright whirling tunnel, or even the inside of a tornado for that matter. It was simple- in one moment they were sitting in a large pile of dung, and the next they were sitting on dirt and rocks. Anne immediately returned to a state of unconsciousness while Aaliyah did what Michael, Tom and Sarah were all doing- examine their new, bizarre environment.<\/p>\n
They were in a round opening surrounded by a range of mountains, with no visible paths that led out. And everything around them was\u2026well\u2026 yellow. In fact, there was not a boulder, rock, pebble or single grain of sand that was not some shade of the color. These yellowy mountains climbed high in to the sky. Unlike mountain ranges on earth, there were no snowy mountain tops, and no clouds hovering over their peaks.<\/p>\n
The sky above the mountains was completely white and completely barren. They did not see any clouds, suns or moons. The air was very dry here, but the group breathed without much trouble, apart from a constant scratching at the back of their throats.<\/p>\n
Michael could not stop looking directly upwards. \u201cThe sky is so interesting!\u201d he exclaimed.<\/p>\n
Sarah raised an eyebrow at him. \u201cThat\u2019s the only thing you find interesting about this place?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo of course not. But it\u2019s pure white! There are no clouds, no snow on the mountain tops, and the air we are breathing is dry as hell. I would say there is next to no water here! And the color! Don\u2019t you see? Color is a part of a spectrum of light. But there is no sun, or any source that seems to produce a large amount of light-yet look at all of the color around us!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAll of what color? Everything but your damn white sky is yellow,\u201d Tom observed.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut thousands upon thousands of shades of yellow!\u201d<\/p>\n
Tom was not impressed by Micheal\u2019s enthusiasm. \u201cThat\u2019s great doc, but I\u2019m a little more concerned about where the hell we are than about the bloody d\u00e9cor.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tom turned now to Aaliyah and Sarah, who were placing Anne\u2019s head on the top of Sarah\u2019s jacket. \u201cSo where are we?\u201d he asked them.<\/p>\n
Both women looked at Tom puzzled. \u201cHow are we supposed to know?\u201d Sarah answered.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou seemed to understand what those two were talking about back at the house.\u201d<\/p>\n
Aaliyah shook her head at Tom\u2019s reluctance. \u201cWhy don\u2019t you just say it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2019Those two\u2019? Come on Tom, they were angels!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t know that for sure,\u201d Tom argued. \u201cSo they had wings\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTom, everyone here knows it.\u201d Sarah said.<\/p>\n
Tom snorted, but could not give any other retort, so he moved on: \u201cThat was still not the point I was getting at- I want to know what you two know about \u2018ghouls\u2019 and \u2018Jinn\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe only know what we were told by our parents and taught in our mosque as children,\u201d Aaliyah began to explain.<\/p>\n
\u201cMosque? Like Muslim? I didn’t know you guys were in to that stuff,\u201d Tom interrupted.<\/p>\n
Aaliyah rolled her eyes at Tom’s ignorance. \u201cOur parents are more devout to Islam than we are, but that doesn’t mean that they are like that stereotypical nonsense you see in the media all the time Tom. Sarah and I are-\u201d<\/p>\n
Sarah took over for a moment, \u201cWe practice our faith about as much as you do your Christianity.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tom nodded. He knew that this meant not very much.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnyways,\u201d Aaliyah continued, \u201cWe were taught that the Jinn were beings made by Allah-or God- before humans were created. The first of them were made from fire-\u201c<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat about the ghouls?\u201d Tom interrupted again. He was interrogating Aaliyah much like he would a criminal suspect.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe ghouls are more folklore than anything else. They aren\u2019t even mentioned in the Quran-an. From what we were told they were creatures that roamed the desert. They transformed themselves in to beautiful women and dogs and such, so they could lure men and young children away and eat them or something disgusting. But there are a lot of different takes on what the ghouls are- some other myths say that they dwell in ruins and graveyards, eating the flesh off of rotting corpses and the like\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
Aaliyah stopped talking and rubbed her eyes. She was tired and she had little energy to continue answering Tom\u2019s questions.<\/p>\n
\u201cWell don\u2019t stop!\u201d Tom pressured her, \u201cTell me more about the Jinn.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTom just let us rest for a bit,\u201d Aaliyah pleaded. \u201cBesides those angels should be able to explain things better to you than I could\u2026if they ever get here.\u201d<\/p>\n
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