When fifteen year old Stefan Vogt ran away from the abuses of home, he was far from expecting a hitman from Marseille to soon be coming for him and his girlfriend Julia. “Escape from Inconsequence” is a tale of corruption, where the line between law and crime is blurred by the powers of money and religion, and where an orphan’s paper trail may cease to exist following a trip to an underground photography studio, or oneof the select foster homes that go by the collective name of Hell.
This is a story of two similar worlds, one thriving through healing, the other pursuing its course towards exploitation and collapse. The role of the tale-maker and her character is to aim at restoring the balance. But for reasons tied to the origins of the Program, it is also the wish of the Firm, the CEO, and the one called "the wife" to see that it doesn't happen.
Patricia Reyes, a San Francisco cabdriver, and John Leeds, a neuroscience researcher at the University of Cambridge, England, met unceremoniously at the airport on a stormyafternoon. The week that followed traced their journey as they opened the doors onto a shared reality neither of them suspected was coalescing. It is a fascinating tale of unlikely love brought forth through the exploration of the self and its hidden powers in shaping the course ahead.
A lawyer from Quebec City treks the Tasmanian wilderness in search of clues into the mysterious death of a powerful Hobart attorney, whose body was found at the bottom of a tailings dam owned by a large mining operation. A Russian investigator comes to a dead end, prompting a chain of events to develop into multiple scenarios whose disparate outcomes all arrive at the same place. But things aren't always as they seem. While shadow men operate behind the scene, a Chinese businessman's activities dangerously flirt with high-level criminality. Somehow, he remains untouchable. Meanwhile, the future of the planet balances on a couple's ability to retrace lost memories, as well as create a few new ones. A woman from the future finds what she's looking for in thirteenth century England. But does changing the past affect the world she must eventually return to? The answer is yes and no. An ancient cell is up to no good with the fate of the natural world, while a university avant-garde troupe gets the blame for dead bodies playing musical chairs. Throughout is all, a resourceful global conglomerate uses all it has to prevent the worst, as the midnight clock keeps on ticking ever nearer the final bell.
Tunes was a remarkable being--a magical one. The past tense does little justice to how much his life still affects my very present and how far, I am sure, it will resonate, until the time comes for us to meet on new grounds.
