Not of Earth
By Jon Jacks
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Melodien isn’t her real name; because no one knows her real name, not even Melodien.
She was washed up on the island’s beach, as if from a shipwreck – even though there’d been no shipwreck for months.
And anyone who saw her had to agree: there’d never been a more beautiful creature on God’s earth.
Bewitching, entrancing – and she can talk to long dead spirits too.
Jon Jacks
While working in London as, first, an advertising Creative Director (the title in the U.S. is wildly different; the role involves both creating and overseeing all the creative work in an agency, meaning you're second only to the Chairman/President) and then a screenwriter for Hollywood and TV, I moved out to an incredibly ancient house in the countryside. On the day we moved out, my then three-year-old daughter (my son was yet to be born) was entranced by the new house, but also upset that we had left behind all that was familiar to her. So, very quickly, my wife Julie and I laid out rugs and comfortable chairs around the huge fireplace so that it looked and felt more like our London home. We then left my daughter quietly reading a book while we went to the kitchen to prepare something to eat. Around fifteen minutes later, my daughter came into the kitchen, saying that she felt much better now 'after talking to the boy'. 'Boy?' we asked. 'What boy?' 'The little boy; he's been talking to me on the sofa while you were in here.' We rushed into the room, looking around. There wasn't any boy there of course. 'There isn't any little boy here,' we said. 'Of course,' my daughter replied. 'He told me he wasn't alive anymore. He lived here a long time ago.' A child's wild imagination? Well, that's what we thought at the time; but there were other strange things, other strange presences (but not really frightening ones) that happened over the years that made me think otherwise. And so I began to write the kind of stories that, well, are just a little unbelievable.
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Not of Earth - Jon Jacks
Not of Earth
Jon Jacks
Other New Adult and Children’s books by Jon Jacks
The Caught – The Rules – Chapter One – The Changes – Sleeping Ugly
The Barking Detective Agency – The Healing – The Lost Fairy Tale
A Horse for a Kingdom – Charity – The Most Beautiful Things (Now includes The Last Train)
The Dream Swallowers – Nyx; Granddaughter of the Night – Jonah and the Alligator
Glastonbury Sirens – Dr Jekyll’s Maid – The 500-Year Circus – The Desire: Class of 666
P – The Endless Game – DoriaN A – Wyrd Girl – The Wicker Slippers – Gorgesque
Heartache High (Vol I) – Heartache High: The Primer (Vol II) – Heartache High: The Wakening (Vol III)
Miss Terry Charm, Merry Kris Mouse & The Silver Egg – The Last Angel – Eve of the Serpent
Seecrets – The Cull – Dragonsapien – The Boy in White Linen – Porcelain Princess – Freaking Freak
Died Blondes – Queen of all the Knowing World – The Truth About Fairies – Lowlife
Elm of False Dreams – God of the 4th Sun – A Guide for Young Wytches – Lady of the Wasteland
The Wendygo House – Americarnie Trash – An Incomparable Pearl – We Three Queens – Cygnet Czarinas
Memesis – April Queen, May Fool – Sick Teen – Thrice Born – Self-Assembled Girl – Love Poison No. 13
Whatever happened to Cinderella’s Slipper? – AmeriChristmas – The Vitch’s Kat in Hollywoodland
Blood of Angels, Wings of Men – Patchwork Quest – The World Turns on A Card – Palace of Lace
The Wailing Ships – The Bad Samaritan – The 13th Month – The Silvered Mare – SpinDell
Swan Moon – The Unicorndoll – Lesser Nefertiti – My Shrieking Skin – Stone in Love
Font of All Lies – The Bared Heart – The Fairy Paintbox – An Angelic Alphabet
Forewarnings and Three Grapes – Death of a Fairytale Princess – The Incurable Caress
The Maid’s Caul – Nu’s Ark – A Disgraced Angel – Wake Me Up When it’s Christmas
God’s Toybox – Aurora Rising – The Veil – Petals: Portals of Desire – Ripppples
Golden Elk – MatchBox Fairy – The Snow Nymph – The Deep and Secret Yes
Mirror Merror – The WatcHousE – Winter Queen – Sweet Vale of Aricia – InterLace
The Queen of Cards – The Melancholy Flower – Maiden of the No World – The Key to Eden
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Chapter 1
It was much more of a struggle to throw the poor, naked girl overboard than the doctor had thought it might be.
Of course, he didn’t see it in any way as being murder.
She was entirely lifeless, after all.
Besides, her intended marriage to that other, unfortunately monstrous creation could only have led to the birth of a new, evil race of men.
As he rowed back to land, the storm that had been raging about the doctor worsened. It dragged him increasingly wildly off course, such that he eventually found himself graciously thanking his maker when he was at last cast up safe and sound on the shores of Ireland.
He naturally remained entirely unaware that the girl had also washed up on a beach: bedraggled, shocked, and yet remarkably alive.
You see, although he believed she lacked the necessary spark of life, she didn’t see it that way at all…
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Chapter 2
Admittedly,